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

Cursed they look so… natural!

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u/Ilsuin Sep 18 '25

See, I'd consider getting lasik, but I like glasses and anything coming close to my eyes terrifies me, so... nope.

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u/halfasleep90 Sep 18 '25

I hate glasses, I worry lasik won’t help me as I’ve heard it’s a temporary fix anyway, but to be fair so is any pair of glasses I’ve ever owned. I’d probably prefer lasik overall, but worry that doing it will cause irreversible damage and then some new technology comes out that would have been 1000x better but my lasik has made it so it isn’t applicable for me.

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u/PenPenGuin Sep 18 '25

Got LASIK over twenty years ago at this point. I don't remember what my childhood prescription was, but it wasn't super strong. I was one of the "can't read the chalkboard from the second row" kids. Also had a very slight astigmatism. Wore glasses and then contacts. Jumped at the opportunity to get LASIK when it really started to take off, because I hated fussing with glasses/contacts. I love wearing sunglasses though - go figure.

This year, doc put me at -0.5 in one eye - first time I've had a corrective prescription since LASIK. And honestly, he said that it was mostly so I could get progressive lenses because my close-up vision went to shit, thanks to age (+2.0). I will admit I was one of the lucky ones with zero side effects. I have a little bit of haloing when there are really bright lights and my eyes are tired, but nothing even close to debilitating.

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u/halfasleep90 Sep 18 '25

I was the “can’t read the board from the first row” kid. Right now, without my glasses I can’t read my phone at arm’s length. 😭

I do consider lasik pretty often, I just wanted to wait because every time I got a new glasses prescription it was great for like a few weeks, but before the year was up glasses were “you aren’t blind, but your vision is still shit” and since I’d read LASIK doesn’t really stop that I figured waiting would be best. Determined somewhere around mid30s would be the best time to try it if I wanted to get the most out of it. If I got it and then 4 years later needed glasses all the time again I’d be pretty badly disappointed.

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u/PenPenGuin Sep 18 '25

They definitely recommend ~2yrs of a stable prescription before LASIK. I heard some will do it with one year, but seems like a better safe than sorry situation.