Why Would Someone Choose LASIK Over Glasses or Contact Lenses? - Find Out Why

Wearing glasses or contact lenses is a necessity for some of us, but that doesn't mean we like it. Few people like the hassles of your glasses getting sat on, knocked off your face, getting stepped on and broken, getting scratches on the lenses, the inability to wear regular sunglasses, (they have to have a prescription), the glasses sitting crooked or cockeyed on your face are just some of the reasons that for those of us who are forced to wear glasses hate them. All we need is an affordable method by which we can get rid of them for good.

Wearing contact lenses eliminate many of the problems that come up with wearing glasses, but they have a whole new set of there own. When soft contact first came on to the market, it had what is known an antiquated cleaning and sterilizing system. Today the cleaning and sterilizing system is much better, but there are still some complications with contact lenses. You can't take them out just any time you want; you have to have some solution with you and a case to put them in. Sitting in a car is not the best place to remove your contacts either. However, it will do in a pinch.

If the wind is blowing, the chances of you getting something in your eye just increases. When something gets into your eye, it can hurt like the dickens until you can get it out. The first time I put my contacts in my eyes with a tiny piece of string from the hand towel, my eye shut so fast it was extremely difficult to get my eye open to remove the contact and rinse it again.

My favorite times are when I think I have the contact in my eye only to find it isn't there and it is no longer on my finger. You don't move your feet at all and look at everything from the sink and counter to your clothing and shoes that looks like a drop of water. Sound fun yet? If you haven't been fortunate enough to find the dropped contact, then you will be sporting only one contact in one eye all day, unless you have another pair.

Of course then there is the first time you fall asleep in your contacts because you didn't remove them the night before. The next morning your eyes feel like they have been glued shut, and not even an act of Congress could get them open. My favorite however, is when I was out one night and my contact felt like it was still in my eye, but I couldn't see out of it. I went to the bathroom to look in the mirror and fortunately this particular pair of contact I owned were the colored contacts that added color to the iris of your eye. It was a good thing because my contact had torn in half in my eye. The half I hadn't gotten out of my eye yet was up above my pupil on the white of my eye, looking like it was about to escape in my head behind my eye, never to be seen again.

So why would somebody like me choose LASIK over glasses or contact lenses? I bet you can guess.

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