hee yea! have printed out all the forms tt need to be submitted when going for registration. will fill them up later.


its a week since my lasik op. still can't see very clearly; i hope it'll get better real soon! had the op last tues, decided to do it bcos my myopia's almost reached 1000 for one eye. there are four options for conventional lasik: they are VISX Custom (Microkeratome), Wavefront (Microkeratome), Custom (IntraLase) and Wavefront (IntraLase). LASIK corrects vision by reshaping the cornea. microkeratome means blade, while intralase's bladeless.


i had the custom intralase, which is $2,588 w/out GST, n after adding up the cost of medication, it totals $2,900++, slightly less then $3,000. these are some things i hadn't knew before surgery:

the bladeless mtd (intralase) allows the cutting of a thinner corneal flap, compared to e microkeratome.

although the Wavefront mtd's more precise (treats both lower- and higher-order aberrations, compared to only lower-order for Custom), it will remove a more significant amt of corneal tissue than the Custom mtd. there4, for those with high myopia (abt 1000 in each eye), e doctor may recommend Custom (intralase), bcos it removes less corneal tissue. this means ur cornea after surgery will be thicker than it'd have been using Wavefront (microkeratome).

the discomfort during surgery is minor, only during the cutting of corneal flap, when the suction ring's placed on the eye and pressure's applied to create the corneal flap. n the laser that sculpts the cornea makes a loud tak-tak-tak sound when its on, haha. the surgeon also pasted my eyelashes to kp it out of the way, before cutting the flap.


the surgery's only around 10 min; during and after that there was a lot of tearing in my right eye. while on the cab home, couldn't help closing my eyes, because of the anaesthetic/ numbing eye drops they put before surgery. it was very uncomfortable, so i went to sleep early, haha.


the next morning, my vision's a lot clearer le, but alot more blurry compared to wearing glasses. my post is getting too long haha! shall end here. if anyone's having lasik, u cn consider Lasik Surgery Clinic, at Paragon, and dr marc tay.

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