Am interested in this procedure. Anyone got any tips,recommendations, personal horror stories?

Update: I finally did it. Just want to share my own laser surgery experience.

When: End November 2007.
Where: OPTIMAX TTDI
Who: Dr Chuah
Power: Right 450myopia/200astig Left 400myopia/250astig
Treatment: Had custom wavefront intralasik. Basically same as lasik but they don't use the blade to cut. My corneal thickness meant I could have had the cheaper lasik option but I opted to have custom wavefront,which means the computer guided laser thingy does the cutting according to shape of each eye-this is supposed to give better result especially for glare/night driving problems)
Cost:RM 7000. (If had done the basic lasik would only be half the price,done at HUKM and TTDI also)
My age: 30s (old dude but still vain )

Current situation
Power: Right myopia gone, 50 astig, left myopia gone/astig gone.In fact my left eye is seeing 20/15,which is better than 20/20.
Any problems: None. First 5 hours there was sharp pain which faded when I went to sleep. After waking up next morning still blurry. After 3rd day, totally clear. Dryness if in car with open window or in cinema (very very cold) or office central aircon(very very cold and recycled air)
Aftercare from optimax: very very good. Have to go to checkup at any OPTIMAX branch on next day, 1st week,1 month and 3 months. Free consultation for life. Free re-correction if the result doesnt stick (not that that is a good thing necessarily)
Overall result: Full marks! Surpasses my expectations. Very little complication. Manystories of dry eyes and seeing floaters, but so far touch wood,none of those have happened to me.

This post has been edited by LYFfan: Jan 3 2008, 04:31 PM

Hi xcutelilgal,
I heard optimax is good. so is the lasik centre(?).

Wanna ask u, did u have astigmatism and if you did, was the lasik able to correct it?

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.