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Get LASIK. Having perfect eyesight and not having to deal with contacts or glasses is worth every penny.
I did and within a decade my eyes reverted to their original prescription
This is not normal by any means.
A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
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This makes no sense, unless you were a kid why would you have to get your glasses "re-done" every year? I've been wearing the same prescription for a decade and the same plastic frames for seven years. I go to the ophthalmologist every two years to get my optic drusen looked at and my corrected vision is fine. If I didn't go for my drusen I would have no reason to go. If your vision is so unstable that you were getti…
I'm not sure where you get your Informaton but for one, in order to re-order contact lenses you must have a current rx (within 1-2 years) and it is standard to get an eye exam every year. Many people have eyesight that progressively gets worse and require a new rx yearly.
> Many people have eyesight that progressively gets worse and require a new rx yearly.
And many people have had the same prescription for 4-5 years or more, and don't have eyes that continue to get worse.
I think the GP's point was that either your eyes continue to get worse every year, and you need new glasses, and LASIK probably won't last forever, or you don't, and LASIK is a one-time expense that will take quite a while to break even on in a strictly financial sense.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
WRT prices of contact lenses, I use an ultrasonic contact lens cleaner with plain saline (Ringer's will also work if that is cheaper in your area), then storing the contact lenses in my lens solution to disinfect. Far better comfort profile, for far longer, than I ever obtained following the manufacturer instructions of 20 seconds rubbing on each side, and 5 seconds rinsing on each side. The saline is half as much as…
Get LASIK. Having perfect eyesight and not having to deal with contacts or glasses is worth every penny.
Side effects include potential dry eye, ectasia and glare at night time.
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>The fact there is a high barrier of entry might be one of the only appeals golf has at all? This is ridiculous. Golf is a sport that you can play from when you first start walking, until nearly the day you die. That's the appeal. It requires extreme concentration in a way that I've never experienced in any other sport I've ever played. I would highly, highly recommend that people learn to play golf. I wish it didn't…
Golf is an insufferable sport. The land and resources that go into a golf course and all the equipment are a pure sign of feckless wastelessness. It's not possible to justify. Just be indignant if you like what amounts to 5 steaks a day.
Hi there - seems like you're getting some downvotes and as someone else who cares about the environment, I'd love to convince you golf can actually be a good thing for land use. Some of the courses I grew up playing on were old landfills. The golf course would cap and seal the landfill, then plant vegetation on top letting it grow and then eventually putting a golf course on it. What once was a landfill and source of rodents, disease, and an eyesore on the community became an effective use of the land. Now, not every golf course is built on a landfill, but you'd be surprised how often it happens:
http://americancityandcounty.com/mag/government_chicago_dump...
"The facility won top honors in the 1996 Superior Achievement for Excellence in Environmental Engineering competition sponsored by the American Academy of Environmental Engineering, which cited Harborside for addressing "the major criteria of the competition ... most important was the manner in which it met environmental and ecological concerns and contributed to an improved environment, using available materials to reverse perceived abuses and achieved significant cost reduction and control in course construction.""
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
WRT prices of contact lenses, I use an ultrasonic contact lens cleaner with plain saline (Ringer's will also work if that is cheaper in your area), then storing the contact lenses in my lens solution to disinfect. Far better comfort profile, for far longer, than I ever obtained following the manufacturer instructions of 20 seconds rubbing on each side, and 5 seconds rinsing on each side. The saline is half as much as…
Get LASIK. Having perfect eyesight and not having to deal with contacts or glasses is worth every penny.
My surgery was pretty good, but just for 2 years. Then astigmatism returned in a higher degree and instead of myopia I got hypermetropia (but to a much smaller degree).
YMMV, of course.
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A risk of ending up with halos is not worth it.
If you get LASEK vs. LASIK halos aren't a problem. I had LASEK done perhaps 8 years ago, and my eyes went from 20/400 to 20/15 overnight. The entire procedure was incredible including an HD prescription profile generated by scanning your entire eye. The process is $4k-$5k but with financing comes down to about the same you spend on glasses or contacts annually. No risk of halos as there is no "flap" cut like with LAS…
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
A risk of ending up with halos is not worth it.
If you get LASEK vs. LASIK halos aren't a problem. I had LASEK done perhaps 8 years ago, and my eyes went from 20/400 to 20/15 overnight. The entire procedure was incredible including an HD prescription profile generated by scanning your entire eye. The process is $4k-$5k but with financing comes down to about the same you spend on glasses or contacts annually. No risk of halos as there is no "flap" cut like with LAS…
I'm interested in more info. Email in profile.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
A risk of ending up with halos is not worth it.
If you get LASEK vs. LASIK halos aren't a problem. I had LASEK done perhaps 8 years ago, and my eyes went from 20/400 to 20/15 overnight. The entire procedure was incredible including an HD prescription profile generated by scanning your entire eye. The process is $4k-$5k but with financing comes down to about the same you spend on glasses or contacts annually. No risk of halos as there is no "flap" cut like with LAS…
I'm interested in learning more. My email is in my profile too.
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#169Could this be a tactic to chose the trial location and avoid Texas ?
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#170Costco sued J&J Vision Care a few years ago over anti-consumer behavior in the contact lenses industry (I characterize it as anti-consumer. The Vision Care industry characterizes it as pro-consumer). They dropped the lawsuit in 2016, probably because Johnson and Johnson discontinued the practice: https://www.law360.com/articles/800034/costco-drops-antitrus... Costco did support a different lawsuit by state of Utah ag…
WRT prices of contact lenses, I use an ultrasonic contact lens cleaner with plain saline (Ringer's will also work if that is cheaper in your area), then storing the contact lenses in my lens solution to disinfect. Far better comfort profile, for far longer, than I ever obtained following the manufacturer instructions of 20 seconds rubbing on each side, and 5 seconds rinsing on each side. The saline is half as much as…
A No-Rub solution was not an option? I can just take em out, store them in No-Rub solution overnight and repeat that for a month before they start to deteriorate.