Laser Eye Surgery Abroad - My experience

Leave it til the Autumn or Winter. Flights are extremely expensive at this time of year as are hotels.

6 months on, I'm fully recovered and it's the best money I ever spent.

I had considered laser eye surgery about 10 or 15 years ago, but was slightly nervous and so didn't proceed. Plus I didn't mind wearing glasses occasionally..

The kicker for me was the fact that if I had got it, I would still eventually need reading glasses. The optician explained to me that if I lived with my minor short sightedness, then it would be longer before I needed reading glasses. But if I got lasered, I'd need reading glasses sooner.

I had assumed that once lasered I would be done with glasses forever, but apparently not. He said a lot of people believed the same.

Perhaps.

But it's fact that everyone who gets their eyes lasered will eventually end up wearing glasses again.

Plus, why do all the opticiians I know or have used, wear glasses instead of getting their eyes lasered?

Everyone will need glasses eventually.The option for most people is wear glasses 24/7 and require two separate type as get older or get surgery and require glasses to read.

The vast majority of people who wear glasses don't get surgery so why would opticians. It would be a bad look for business too. Sugery might not last forever and you hear of cases of people back in glasses after a few years.

I got my eyes done here in a private hospital about 15 years ago. It was great up until about 7 years ago and now my vision is back to the way it used to be. It dosen't last forever. My corneas are too thin to get done again.

I had my eyes lasered in Ireland in 2002, it cost €4200 but got tax refund at the higher rate back then, so about 42% off. It was in the Wellington private clinic, and I was treated in a very professional manner. Operation was perfect, I got lucky (as it simply wasn't as good as it is today) and ended up with 20/12 vision (which is considerably better than 20/20 vision) - being able to easily read the smallest bottom line of the chart

I'm 55 now and I've had reading glasses for 2 years, but I still don't need them even for reading the paper, reading a book, working on a computer, etc. I do need them for reading when the environment is dark and I need them for precision work. And it is getting worse obviously as I age further

So I got it done in Prague today.1900 euro for femtho hd. Quite an experience tbh. Yesterday they put drops in my eyes to dilate pupils omg vision was blurry for the whole day very sensitive to light. That finally passed about 7 o'clock about 7 hours after. Surgery this morning arrived on time to find out that the laser machine has stopped working during previous patients operation. Thankfully I had been given the relaxer tablet so the news wasn't too upsetting haha. We were told go back to our hotel while they try sort it out. We received phone call about 30 mins later offering service in Brno 2 hours away in the car. So we accepted it due to flights and next day check up. I keep referring as we as I met very nice guy from Haiti in my hotel and he had same schedule as me. He's a bit a a panicker he travels alot between usa Haiti and France but he travelled from Haiti to Prague as hed done lots of research as they were the best. The news the machine broke and to travel to another city didn't sit well with him but eventually he understood neo bise and praga media are kinda same company praga make the booking with neo vise for us. So anyway off we went bit of rough start in mini bus cutting out and stalling and having tonstop to add ad blue to tank. We were off still very relaxed from tablet given to us haha. We arrived 2 hours later to Brno and tbf they were very efficient. There was 5 of us in total done in under 2 hours. I myself found procedure very uncomfortable I don't like anyone touching my eyes obviously there's no pain but you kinda expect to feel some. I was layed down and something like a marker or a pin she put dots on my eyes. I think that's what happened. Then they put the first machine over you and place like a clamp to keep you eye open or in place I'm not sure.the you feel air or something for about 5 seconds and then onto the other eye. Then you glided over to the actual laser. Lots of green and red lights scattered and your told look in center and on comes the laser. This last 7 seconds she told me. You don't feel it tbh but you can smell burn like signed hair kinda smell then repeat on other eye. Then you sit up your first os to grab your eyes rub but I was no in a very stern Eastern Europe accent so I behaved. We were out in waiting room again for maybe 20 mins. At this point all I could see was like a fog and the burning sensation started tbh it lasted about 3 hour no one spoke a word on way home. I'm about 5 hours post surgery. I went to shopping center next door to hotel and was easily able to read menus up high over counters. So yes it does work. NGL it's sore after the lasik for few hours. I'd to guide the hatai guy back to hotel. I'd one eye working he'd none haha. It's definitely worth doing. I met nice guy who traveled alone as did i.wifes at home. He's wife wasn't sure bout him doing such a risky operation alone. Thankfully his wife was sleeping in Haiti this morning as his plan was to tell her to be on safe side they would wait and do his op In morning so he didn't tell her. Imagine if he told her and ge got phone call that he going brno haha how would he explained that to his wife. All in all a good experience except tea bags I forgot my Barry's tea and teas here is different alot different

Not everyone is suitable and in fact the sign of a good laser eye surgeon is that they turn a high percentage of people away. It depends on the strength of your glasses prescription, the thickness of your corneas, previous eye surgery, previous eye infections or injuries, severe dry eye, other eye diseases, your lifestyle/occupation, etc.

No results on Google for duovise can anyone share a link please.