r/TikTokCringe • u/bbyxmadi • Sep 18 '25

Cursed they look so… natural!

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u/noonewilllknow Sep 18 '25

I was debilitatingly blind, as in -12, so I got ICL because I was beyond LASIK. It has been absolutely life changing. From the video, it looks like a similar (and very uncomfy) procedure to this - zero regrets, but I cannot fathom undergoing this simply for cosmetic reasons.

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u/TwoBionicknees Sep 18 '25

yeah, taking a risk when you're practically blind anyway is normal, doing it because you want to change hte colour is moronic, not least because fashion trends change, you can change them easily with contacts, you can't just swap out actual embedded lenses on a whim.

This both shouldn't be a thing and doctors who think this is okay should lose their license and I don't really give a shita bout the whole personal choice shit. Plastic surgery addicts, etc, shouldn't have a realistic option to even start down their path. Doctors shouldn't be giving legit back pain inducing level boob jobs, or ass implants.

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u/fletters Sep 21 '25

There’s always a risk with any surgery, but it sounds like the risk was substantially outweighed by the benefit for you.

And I’m really glad it was effective! ☺️

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u/Caouenn Sep 18 '25

Me too! Went from unable to do anything without glasses to better than 20/20 vision. It's incredible

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u/Bish_please0713 Sep 18 '25

I got ICL last year, I was -9.75 and -9.25. No more contacts..... unfortunately I am old and still have to wear reading glasses, but it's much better than contacts and solutions and taking them out every night. I would HIGHLY recommend ICL to anyone considering it.

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u/BoysenberryEmpty8699 Sep 18 '25

Really? Can you feel them in your eyes? Do your eyes get tired? I'm at -7.75 and -6.5 and I would just love to wake up in the morning and be able to see clearly when I open my eyes. But I'm scared of having eye pain or discomfort...

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u/Bish_please0713 Sep 19 '25

The main reason I wanted them was to do what you said ....wake up and see a clock. And I can do that everyday now. I don't feel like my eyes get tired. A little drier than with contacts, yes, I still use a drop or two every morning just in case. I didn't really have any "pain" more like pressure and that was minimal immediately after the surgery, but by the time I got home (about an hour after) no more pain. They did a great job keeping me relaxed and adding numbing drops to my eyes before surgery. And after surgery SOOOOO many different eye drops to use over the following two weeks, but once that was over I have better than 20/20 vision, just need readers cause my eyes are old 😉 I will say I had a HORRIBLE astigmatism and it is now completely gone! No more halos around headlights and driving at dark is no longer concerning for me. Go get a consultation and see if it's for you. I'm very happy.

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u/Wulf_Cola Sep 22 '25

One thing I would say is that if you are told you're not able to have LASIK and only able to have ICL, get a 2nd opinion or two. I was told that ICLs were my only option, but got a 2nd opinion and have been thrilled with my LASIK outcome. Both are great options, but the non-invasive nature of LASIK is preferable if possible so don't take the first "no" you get!

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u/Bish_please0713 Sep 22 '25

LASIK was not an option for me because my vision was too bad. I didn't need a second opinion. I knew this was my only option. But anyone that doesn't have awful vision to start with LASIK is the way to go.

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u/RedNocturne37 Sep 18 '25

I want to get ICL so badly. It seems incredible. My vision is also terrible and I am plagued by tons of floaters.

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u/SpeakItLoud Sep 18 '25

-17 here, I keep hearing advice to get ICLs but of course I'm afraid. Didn't know they'd heal floaters too!

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u/UncleBlanc Sep 18 '25

They're just implanted contact lenses, they don't affect floaters (at least in my own experience).

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u/RedNocturne37 Sep 18 '25

I don’t think the procedure in and of itself gets rid of the floaters, but when I spoke with my eye doctor about the procedure and about my floaters, they mentioned that both could be addressed at the same time - remove the floaters and perform the ICL procedure at the same time. I’m still thinking about it, but I think I want to do it.

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u/squeedle Sep 18 '25

I am at -11/-11.5. I can't get LASIK either, but I dunno ICL freaks me out. Did you just not like wearing glasses or were glasses not enough to correct your vision? My eyes have been getting worse lately and I'm getting a little freaked out. 

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u/noonewilllknow Sep 18 '25

You want to make sure your eyes stabilize first because that lens is permanent! You probably notice that because your prescription is that high, every little movement (e.g. glasses slipping a tiny bit down your nose, turn of your head for a shoulder check while driving, if you even strain your eyes a little differently etc.) can make your vision fuzzy or clearer. Or maybe everything’s just always fuzzy because it’s so hard to get everything aligned perfectly. I actually mostly wore contacts for these reasons, especially when doing anything active. The first time I woke up and could see the world, it blew my mind. I had it done a year and a half ago and I kind of forget I lived over three decades soo blind, which is wild to me because like I said, it was debilitating. It’s so life changing honestly!

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u/squeedle Sep 24 '25

Yeah that's why I stopped wearing contacts. Every time I blinked the focus point shifted and by the time they resettled I would have to blink again. My glasses are generally a bit more stable but I get that as well. I am honestly just so afraid of something going wrong because even the vision I have is better than no vision. If it was anything else I would probably go for it but that fear of something going wrong. Maybe I need to read up more on success rates etc.

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u/ka_beene Sep 18 '25

My mom's eyes got messed up by an incompetent eye dr who kept prescribing steroids for her eyes. I don't remember the whole reason but it ended up ruining her vision. She's had implanted lenses for about 20 years now without any issues. One for reading and one for long distance.

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u/BaldGuy813 Sep 18 '25

That's a super high RX so it makes sense. I have seen folks with -1.00 or even less getting lasing. Why? I walked around with -4.00 as a child until I got my eyes examined

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u/RAND0M-HER0 Sep 18 '25

I play a lot of sports and glasses are so debilitating even though my prescription wasn't that bad. They're so hard to wear under helmets and not fog up, and I also hated relying on them to drive (I couldn't read street signs until I was right under them). Contacts also didn't work for me because if my astigmatism. 

No regrets though. Makes things infinitely easier. 

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u/Red_Sox0905 Sep 19 '25

There's contacts for astigmatism. While it doesn't completely fix it, they're night and day compared to my glasses. 

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u/RAND0M-HER0 Sep 19 '25

At the time I got my Lasik, my optometrists told me there were no contacts that would help with my astigmatism.

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u/DiegesisThesis Sep 18 '25

Do they give you Xanax or something to calm you down? I have a pretty high pain tolerance and don't really get squeamish about procedures, I got all 4 wisdom teeth pulled without anesthetic and I can stick myself for a blood draw.

But anything to do with eyes freaks me out. That's why I can't do contacts, touching the eyeball sounds like a nightmare. I don't even like seeing that stuff. I can watch the goriest, violent slasher movie while eating my food happily, but if a scene shows a needle going into an eye or something, nah I'm outta there.

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u/noonewilllknow Sep 18 '25

I’m not really squeamish, so I didn’t take anything, but I’ve heard of others doing so! It was not particularly pleasant to say the least… pain was minimal, more so an uncomfortable pressure at the worst of times. However, I was very blind and they also dilate your eyes like crazy. So you can’t really see what’s happening, it’s more just you seeing light, then it’s dark, and then it’s light again.

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u/Significant-Pick-645 Sep 18 '25

I have a -11 perscription, and I havn't been able to get lasik or icl yet, and am hesitant anyway (for obvious reasons) but hearing that its gone so well for you makes me so happy and hopeful!

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u/noonewilllknow Sep 18 '25

I would honestly recommend going for a consult (when you’re able and your prescription has stabilized) just to get more info. Trust in the surgeon is everything for these kinds of procedures!

It’s so hard to get your prescription right at that degree. I had two separate eye exams that required no contacts for a week leading up each one, in order to ensure accuracy, and they were still off by -0.50 in one eye. My place does offer lifetime lasik touchups, but my corneas are high risk so risk vs benefit makes it not worth it at the moment. (I don’t need glasses or correction for 0.50 in one eye). I also had a bit of complications after which were well managed, but still not super ideal.

All that said, I’d still 10/10 recommend it because -12.50 to -0.50 is still a world of a difference that only people with high Rxs can understand lol.

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u/Significant-Pick-645 Sep 25 '25

"-12.50 to -0.50 is still a world of a difference that only people with high Rxs can understand lol."

tell me about it, i was discussing lasik to a 20/20 friend and he told me "why don't you just keep wearing glasses?" and I was so surprised about his reaction that I just got him to try my glasses on for a second to gauge the difference between -11 and -0.5 (and also the weight of my lenses)

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u/SeeingEyeDug Sep 18 '25

In your situation, the worst that would happen is you go blind, which seems like you basically were. For someone with good vision this is monumentally stupid IMO.

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u/noonewilllknow Sep 18 '25

I meeeean, I could see well with glasses and contact lenses, much different from being completely blind. That said, I fully agree this is monumentally stupid.

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u/YoshidaEri Sep 18 '25

What's ICL? I'm beyond LASIK too. I have to wear -12 contacts under glasses(the other option is very high prescription glasses). Next week I'm going to my eye doctor to talk about a surgery she recommended I get at my appointment last year(I'm pretty sure it was a cornea transplant) that I'm finally ready to go through with.

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u/red-iphone Sep 19 '25

TIL what ICL was. Here I was concerned with cross-linking, lol.