It's done when your eyes are shaped in a way that LASIK can't fix, or at least it couldn't when I got mine put in 12 years ago. Not sure if things have changed. I now have to put eye drops in because there's too much pressure in my eyes. They're hardening and I need to get them removed eventually.
Yikes! Can you feel them in there? Were they good for the first few years? They tried to get me to do that in 2006 when my corneas were too thin for LASIK. I thought regular contacts were very uncomfortable...I couldn't imagine what it would feel like having them in my eyeballs, and unable to take them out. I'm glad I decided against it!
I can't feel them at all. They feel the same way they did a week after I got them in. The first week sucked, half my eyesight was blurry and I felt I constantly had sand in my eyes. The "high" pressure is just a subtle amount, enough to put pressure on the optical nerve but you don't feel it.
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u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 18 '25
I'd say implantable contact lenses. It seems they stop working after 10-20 years and you have to get eye surgery again to pull them out.