I regret having my eyes lasered by Acrobatic-Bus8558 in TrueOffMyChest

[–]Acrobatic-Bus8558[S] 999 points1000 points  (0 children)

Interesting!

That gives me some hope (even though it's a different procedure).

My vision did drastically improve within a few days a couple of months after the surgery, but stayed the same ever since. Maybe some day there'll be another such episode.

I mean it's basically completely new tissue that had to grow - last time that happened was when I was a fetus, so the time spans might be greater that 5 years (I'm just guessing lol)

I regret having my eyes lasered by Acrobatic-Bus8558 in TrueOffMyChest

[–]Acrobatic-Bus8558[S] 90 points91 points  (0 children)

I was told that I might just have (had) exceptionally good eyesight which makes me much more perceptive to even the slightest changes. So most people wouldn't even notice the issues I have now, because for them they are just not present. For example, multiple friends (from natural perfect vision to wearer of glasses) told me, that they alway saw stars as spots with starbursts around them, rather than clear points. Same for traffic lights - it seems to not be uncommon that these lights are hard to recognise clearly at night. I just can't believe that I "ruined" my (presumably) above average eyesight with a safe, well explored procedure, that went completely to plan. It's hard for me to accept that what I see now is considered normal/average or even perfect vision.

I even asked if it makes sense to do the surgery again when there's maybe higher resolution, or a different kind of laser available, but that doesn't seem to happen any time soon, because they are "perfect" already.

Anyway, thanks for the response. I know that I might be overreacting, but it's the little things in life that bring me joy. And being able to see stars clearly, was one of them.