Both my aunt and her husband went to Vista. Her case was successful, but as for his, it wasn't. In fact I see him squinting his eyes whenever he needs to read something. According to aunt's husband, even his colleague tried Vista due to friend's recommendation and both cases unluckily were unsuccessful. So...beware. Of course in the fine print of any Lasik centres, they will always say there is no absolute guarantee the procedure will work....but hearing about more than 1 unsuccessful case is bad enough for one single centre.

Yeah....It's really important because if anything goes wrong, your eyes could be affected for life. Then again Optimax offers something like a lifetime warranty, they'll do any remedial surgery on your eyes for free, for life. Just wondering if anybody has any more bad experiences with lasik in Malaysia. It's a comparatively new field anyway, only 10++ years here so far

Many thanks for the input.

Yeeck, do you know which surgeon yr aunt and her husband see? Did they undergo Lasik or other surgery such as cataract or LASEK?

Snorlax, i think Vista has a lifetime plan as well. Btw, do you have any preference surgeon in mind if you go to Optimax?

TLC dont offer intralasik (laser without blade), right?
For info, Vista introduced intralasik 2 yrs ago whereas Optimax introduced last year September.

So far, i havent heard any unsuccessful cases in Msia besides www.afterlasik.com and the recent post by Yeeck (the place you can find honest feedback is in forum as Lasik centre will not reveal much). However, there are lots of unsuccessful cases around the world.

I am still trying to gather feedbacks from those who have seen Dr Stephen Chung, Dr Chuah Kay Leong and Dr Aloysius Joseph.

Having a remedial surgery for free doesn't mean it will correct things, in fact it could even get worse. There's a Chinese saying of not allowing anyone to mess with the bodyparts from your chin upwards, so for those who are afraid about the risks, better stick to glasses (contacts would be my 2nd preference).

Well, i'm a total noob here too, so i have absolutely no idea which surgeon is better at Optimax. Dr Chung seems to be the most senior though. Then again, i may go for the RM3300 student package at HUKM, also from Optimax, but by Dr. Norazlina.

Yeah, which is why we're all gathering as much info as possible. BTW, most of the more serious problems i read online are caused by misdiagnosis before surgery, and problems during surgery. Trying to get as much info on Optimax as possible, since there's absolutely no way they'll tell you about anything serious there ehehe

FYI, If go for Dr Chung, need to pay extra RM500/eye.
I would luv to go for wavefront/customised intralase to reduce higher order abbreviations which then reduce the symptoms of halo/glare and also the 1% risk of flap complication. Of coz, this depends on the surgeon's advice after my eye examination.
If go for the highly experienced surgeon and the most up to date procedure, it will cost about RM8k to RM10k. This money is worth it if the surgery is successful and dont cause much complications.
Man, failure is not an option as the complications are permanent if the surgery is not successful.

My dr was dr noazlina she was very nice

Anybody went for Lasek? Any pros/cons other than the pain and increased recovery time? I hear the chance of complications is less though

i would love to go for lasik coz me too also hav high power nearsightedness. But after researching and asking my eye doctor's opinion, I choose to do it later when there is newer technology. I also got frens who hav succeded doin the lasek but their eye power is not high. Mine is different case and its quite risky to do it.

Now still wearing contact lens which is the convetional type. Very frustrated coz it gets dry easily. And will recent issue of R solutions.

Why i dun wear disposable ? coz im out of the range ...

my friend is a ophthalmo student, who told me that his lecturer (an eye specialist in TUN HUSSIEN ONN) doesnt recommend LASIK as no 1 really knows whats the side effects 20 years later after u have it done.

btw, have u seen any eye specialist have got lasik done on their own eyes?

well, to be honest, i myself is very interested to have it, but reading all the medical reviews in OPTOMETRY UPDATES make me think twice.

to thread starter : pls keep us updated once u got ur eyes done.

cheers

Hello there! I haven't done it yet because I have similar concerns. But I will keep this updated with whatever I find out or if I do do it.

I'm scouting around for viewpoints from those who have done it here in malaysia. I know of relatives who did it and had great results.One is my uncle who did lasik at 50 over years about 7 years ago. He had very bad myopia. Till today his eyes are near perfect. Another is a cousin who did it at age 29.Bad myopia also,thick cokebottle glasses. Near perfect up till now.He had the lasik where the opthalmo surgeon cut his
lens with a scalpel. This was 5 years ago. No side effects or problems. His was in London. Another cousin did hers at age 34 correcting high myopia and moderate astigmatism about 3 years ago. No problems reported there too. She did hers in Singapore.

I done customise intralasik 1 wk ago in Optimax by Dr Chuah!!!!
No complication but there is 75 and 25 shortsightness left in my right and left eye respectively and astimatisgm still there too (b4 lasik my power is -3.75 for both eyes. Hope that my vision will continue to improve over the next few wks as i heard customised lasik takes longer time to recover.
May I know for those who have undergo lasik, how much power is yr eyes?

hi lim00

whats the price for that customize lasik. I know its much more expensive then normal one

I paid RM6600 for both eyes (custom intralasik).
For custom lasik, is RM2500 per eye. Optimax having promotion now for all custom laser surgery.

Any new update about lasik?

Sorry for BUMPING this old thread, I wanted to know any new updates?
Price changes?

Btw lim00 is your eyes below than 40/25 now or still 75/25?

vista's plan is good, but costly some are very costly indeed. But i heard that they are good.

just a word of advise, get your eye tested out first... That's the most important thing to do before u even deciding on to do lasek surgery or not.

A good doc will advise you whethere u eyes are capable or lasek or not... and then you will have to decide yourself and sign the consent form as well to take responsibility if the surgery doesnt go as planned. That's a huge decision to make... a costly one also if things doesnt go right.

i did my lasek at 2004... it was good.. never regreted it... DID it at TLC (midvalley), using blades ler... also cost me 6500 already because my inner eyeball surface was not smooth and have to do some corrective surgery to smoothen it before the real lasek surgery.

hello all... does anybody have any idea about whose technology is better among optimax and vista? vista is much more expensive than optimax as I know, do they have more advanced technology?

how about ExcelView at MidValley? good or not?

I did my LASIK surgery 1 year ago before I got married at OPTIMAX TTDI, the Dr was Dr Norazlina Bachik.
My power used to be 900 (very high astig of 150) and 850 (some astig) for Left and Right Eye. After 3 months the power stabilised at 100 (some astig) on left eye and 50 (zero astig) on right eye. This is consider still good, can drive, read, do work without wearing spec.
I am supposed to do enhancement surgery which is FOC (under warranty) but I was too busy outstation and travelling.
I will do it around this month before puasa just to reduce the power more.

Btw, during that time the cost (normal LASIK) was around RM4200 for both eyes and EPF withdrawal was allowable (policy on EPF withdrawal changed in Nov 06). It was the best investment ever!
Now the price is only around RM1400 for 1 eye.
Anybody who wants to do LASIK at OPTIMAX can quote my name: ADIF ISMAIL :-)