<story><title>Many LASIK patients may wind up with glare, halos or other visual symptoms</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/11/23/many-lasik-patients-may-wind-up-with-glare-halos-or-other-visual-symptoms-study-suggests/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_lasik-1115am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Void_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so glad people are talking about this!&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a question for you:&lt;p&gt;If LASIK involved a 1&amp;#x2F;10,000 chance of losing ten thousand dollars, would you do it? How about hundred thousand? One million? I would probably stop here - would wan&amp;#x27;t to be in one million debt.&lt;p&gt;So what&amp;#x27;s functioning eyesight worth to you? Because to me it&amp;#x27;s more than $1m, more than billion, more than all the money in the world. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t risk it even if there was one failed case to millions.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, this is my setup:&lt;p&gt;1. Contacts for sports&amp;#x2F;social activities&lt;p&gt;2. Lightweight glasses for work (like Snowden in his iconic photo). Don&amp;#x27;t like to wear this in social setting. I would feel nerdy.&lt;p&gt;3. Fashionable round glasses with that spotted texture. Can&amp;#x27;t get used to the plastic glasses, so I don&amp;#x27;t wear them a whole lot, but no problem wearing them in social setting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>njovin</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re assuming that losing a $10,000 bet is the same as experiencing some side affects years after having Lasik.  It&amp;#x27;s not that clear-cut - you don&amp;#x27;t go blind.  A fairer comparison might be a $10,000 bet only paying out $9,000, but while you play you get free drinks and a show, so maybe the trade-off is worth it.&lt;p&gt;I had Lasik about ten years ago. I just didn&amp;#x27;t like the inconvenience of glasses and contacts and taking them on&amp;#x2F;off all day when switching from a screen to driving&amp;#x2F;walking and back was straining.&lt;p&gt;I went in understanding that there was a risk night vision degradation in the future. But really, I&amp;#x27;d likely have experienced that with age anyway.&lt;p&gt;To this day LASIK is the best money I&amp;#x27;ve ever spent.  I&amp;#x27;ve got near-perfect vision and have since taken up many activities (flying, cycling, motorcycling) that, while they can be done with glasses, are much, much more convenient without them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Many LASIK patients may wind up with glare, halos or other visual symptoms</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/11/23/many-lasik-patients-may-wind-up-with-glare-halos-or-other-visual-symptoms-study-suggests/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_lasik-1115am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Void_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so glad people are talking about this!&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s a question for you:&lt;p&gt;If LASIK involved a 1&amp;#x2F;10,000 chance of losing ten thousand dollars, would you do it? How about hundred thousand? One million? I would probably stop here - would wan&amp;#x27;t to be in one million debt.&lt;p&gt;So what&amp;#x27;s functioning eyesight worth to you? Because to me it&amp;#x27;s more than $1m, more than billion, more than all the money in the world. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t risk it even if there was one failed case to millions.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, this is my setup:&lt;p&gt;1. Contacts for sports&amp;#x2F;social activities&lt;p&gt;2. Lightweight glasses for work (like Snowden in his iconic photo). Don&amp;#x27;t like to wear this in social setting. I would feel nerdy.&lt;p&gt;3. Fashionable round glasses with that spotted texture. Can&amp;#x27;t get used to the plastic glasses, so I don&amp;#x27;t wear them a whole lot, but no problem wearing them in social setting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mikeash</author><text>Contacts aren&amp;#x27;t risk-free either. By choosing to wear them over glasses for sports and social activities, you&amp;#x27;re making the same basic choice, perhaps with different numbers. (I say this as one who chose contacts over surgery, and I use them exclusively, no glasses.)</text></comment>