I’m very nervous about my eyes, and deeply unsettled by the idea of eye surgery. Relatedly, I like having a protective layer between my eyes and the world.
(Spoiler block contains description of eye surgery.)
You may be thinking of PRK? LASIK
involves cutting a flap in the outer layer, which is peeled back and they reshape the corneal stroma, then the flap is put back in place and the cut around it
heals. With PRK the outer layer is removed entirely.
Not that I’m saying you should get LASIK — I got it done recently and it’s been marginally better than glasses or contacts, but it hasn’t been life-changing in any way so far.
Plus it doesn’t really solve your problem, since one of the nicest things about photochromic lenses is that you’re already wearing glasses and they just kick in when it gets too bright. After LASIK, you have to carry around sunglasses, remember to put them on and not lose them! I’ve actually been considering getting non-prescription photochromic lenses to get back some of the nice “automatic activation” features of my old glasses.
Oh sorry! Having recently been deep-diving on this when considering the process I forgot some people might be squeamish about it. I’ve put the detailed description under a spoiler block.
I’m very nervous about my eyes, and deeply unsettled by the idea of eye surgery. Relatedly, I like having a protective layer between my eyes and the world.
(Spoiler block contains description of eye surgery.)
You may be thinking of PRK? LASIK
involves cutting a flap in the outer layer, which is peeled back and they reshape the corneal stroma, then the flap is put back in place and the cut around it
heals. With PRK the outer layer is removed entirely.
Not that I’m saying you should get LASIK — I got it done recently and it’s been marginally better than glasses or contacts, but it hasn’t been life-changing in any way so far.
Plus it doesn’t really solve your problem, since one of the nicest things about photochromic lenses is that you’re already wearing glasses and they just kick in when it gets too bright. After LASIK, you have to carry around sunglasses, remember to put them on and not lose them! I’ve actually been considering getting non-prescription photochromic lenses to get back some of the nice “automatic activation” features of my old glasses.
I want able to read your whole comment, sorry! As soon as I got to the part about cutting eyes I needed to stop.
Oh sorry! Having recently been deep-diving on this when considering the process I forgot some people might be squeamish about it. I’ve put the detailed description under a spoiler block.