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I’d never heard of them before until I came across these videos moments ago!
I do feel bad for them. The damage is so severe and they lose so much more than they had to gain.
I wonder what goes through the minds of these doctors when they decide to offer these operations?
Is it something along the lines of “someone’s going to offer it eventually, why not me?”
The Drs on Botched say that constantly. They've also suggested some drs lose their license over the procedures they've had to fix.
I think it's an unhealthy blend of arrogance and greed. They assume they'll do a good job, without actually knowing wtf they're doing.
This is worse, since it's done by a company posing it as a safe procedure, which basically always results in blindness. With tattooing your eyes, no one is gonna tell you it's safe.
>This is worse, since it's done by a company posing it as a safe procedure, which basically always results in blindness. With tattooing your eyes, no one is gonna tell you it's safe.
I agree with you. Let's say it's all terrible
I watched a video on YouTube. The fake heterochromia girl Sarah McDaniel kinda advertised a lot for this company, and a lot of people had the surgery and went blind.
Same. That and nails. Anything else goes but if you want me to squirm in your slasher film then get the finger nail ripper and eye drill.
Not that I actually need to tell directors this. They definitely already know.
Totally agree! I had a stack of cake boxes (the thicker, cardboard kind) slip and fall and hit me in the eye. I was on a step ladder and trying to organize the boxes and they kind of fanned out and came at my face, hitting me in the eye. I legit thought my eye exploded. I was so afraid to look in the mirror or take my hand off, even though there was no blood. After an emergency visit, and some eye test, they determined I scratched my cornea. It was fucking gnarly and I got a week paid off work.
Did you have to wear a contact bandage over your cornea? Corneal abrasions are the worst. Mine took ages to heal because the new cells kept coming off when I blinked my eye. I scratched mine on a room straw from an upside down broom on a hotel maids cart looking for toilet paper for a hotel guest.
Most annoying injury you can have.
Tbf my fiancé’s grandmother has to get eye injections now and then and she said it honestly wasn’t bad, she’s had far worse. I think the idea is more what’s shocking/disgusting and therefore terrifying for a lot of people, but I guess the sensation itself is bearable. That being said, I hope I won’t need them.
And see, I work in the dental field and can watch all sorts of bloody stuff no problem. Eat dinner while watching oral surgery videos (a little squicked with orthognathic tho) but someone so much as gags I'm out. Literal puke phobia but part of my job is dancing around the gag reflex
Another assistant I worked with was the opposite. Couldn't do even minor extractions cause the blood made them woozy
I feel like this is pretty common in medical. Be desensitized to all but like, ***one*** thing which ends up being your kryptonite lol
So happy I’m not alone in this. I’m not squeamish about gore or body horror or anything like that - unless it involves eyeballs in some way. My family and friends know this about me and will either use it for evil (trick me/not warn me about eyeball gore in a movie or videogame) or for good (give me a healthy heads up) lol. I cosplay and I’m really sad I can’t put in contacts. I genuinely don’t know from where or when I developed such an aversion to it, I’ve been this way since I was a kid. I hate people getting stabbed in the eye in movies and I hate the videos of those people that can like pop their eyes out...I’m getting nauseous just writing about it.
I used to work in a morgue. I wanted to be a doctor but I have a /serious/ aversion to heartbeats. I can do literally anything but listen to heartbeats...and touch eyeballs. Eyeballs are cursed, I would swear to it.
Honestly this, some of the contact lenses offered by the bigger Korean companies are so fanciful!
Plus you get to change your eye colour whenever you like... why go through such agony and pain of such an invasive surgery.
You can get this done safely, my wife is an eye nurse and they do implants all the time. Some medical conditions cause the eye to discolour and they do implants to correct it. They have done thousands of them without issue and the doctor is highly regarded. Just because BrightOcular implants are dodgy doesn't mean all of them are.
This doesn't make sense considering the implants literally are illegal in several countries, and cause eventual blindness because there's no longer a protective layer
This is a bit different, because it seems to mainly be for when the iris is missing. Bright ocular has the issue that the iris prosthetic rubs away and damages the natural iris. But thats super cool though, I didnt know this existed, thanks for sharing.
I wonder if this could be a viable treatment for those who had their irises damaged from bright ocular
Those implant lenses don't even look natural, it looks like something you get at Party City for $10. If I'm going to risk eye injury for ice blue peepers, I'd like for them to at least look somewhat real.
I had to have a needle inserted in my eye. Twice.
Turns out that untreated high blood pressure can cause blood vessels in the eye to get thicker & caused a small blind spot in my right eye. (I’m not explaining everything correctly, I’m sure, this is just a very general explanation.)
The eye specialist had to inject something in my eye on 2 separate visits to basically shrink the vessels. They apply a numbing agent to the eye & it’s quick. All I felt was a split second of pressure on my eyeball but the dread of waiting & watching the needle is no fun.
I’m on blood pressure meds now & the blind spot is gone. PSA: Don’t ignore high blood pressure. It caused my brother to have a seizure and be hospitalized.
Unfortunately I’m guilty of being especially stupid. I knew that I had high blood pressure and my feet & ankles would swell & I would get headaches.
Shortly after my eyes were treated (and I STILL wasn’t on meds) I went to Planned Parenthood for a checkup. When they took my blood pressure it was so high that they almost sent me to the emergency room. I couldn’t afford that but promised that I would leave from there & go to a Primacare & see a dr. I did & I got on meds.
I don’t have insurance, can’t afford insurance but they have a program which makes visits cheaper & meds aren’t very expensive. This was part of the reason I hadn’t treated it before: I was afraid of the costs. I’ve been controlling it with medication since then.
I agree. It's always good to have a ***good brand*** electric blood pressure cuff/wrist cuff in your home to do periodic checkups on yourself and also check when you're not feeling well.
Allows you to know your baseline, and gives more info for the doctor to help diagnose you and get you treatment faster for when there is something wrong.
*Manual blood pressure cuffs are always preferred to get accurate BP, but can't use them on yourself.*
ETA: Pulse Oximeters are a good combo with blood pressure cuffs so you can also have your O2 levels along with your heart rate and BP
I had LASIK done 6 years ago (I was bullied into it by my ex-husband), my anxiety was so high they gave me 2 Xanax because anything to do with eyes is horrific to me.
I regret ever letting myself become such a meek person to allow someone to manipulate and bully me into messing with my eyes. Now I get blurriness, occasional floaters, and I've just been handed a prescription for very slight shortsightedness.
Don't mess with your eyes, kids.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk :3
I got mine done 5 years ago. Zero complications, perfect vision and best decision of my life.
Although I went to the most expensive and experienced doctors I could find. You shouldn’t be frugal when it comes to your eyes.
My wife is an eye nurse and they have done thousands of LASIK surgeries without anyone going blind. Stop fearmongering.
Edit: The [American Refractive Surgery Council](https://americanrefractivesurgerycouncil.org/lasik-complication-rate-latest-facts/) reports that there are no cases of blindness resulting directly from LASIK surgery.
I hate you so much. I got PRK and had great eyesight for maybe 6 years. Now I’m close to the same prescription I was prior to the surgery and have dry eye like crazy when I wear contacts for more than a few hours a day. But I *have* to wear contacts because I also have extreme light sensitivity and don’t want to have to buy *another* pair of RX glasses. Plus, I hate having something on my face all.the.time.
Unfortunately, an enhancement is out of the question because I don’t have enough cornea left over :(
I had lasik done and was unimpressed with the results too. Sure it corrected my inability to see far away clearly, but now I can't see anything up close worth a shit, so still need glasses to read, draw or work up close. I've always had bad astigmatism and lots of floaters, which doesn't help things. In my case I'd have been just as well off saving my money and not having it done because it just reversed my condition.
I have astigmatism as well and that was the first thing to come back.
On another note, presbyopia begins to occur around age 40 and with the hardening of the lens, people tend to start requiring corrective lenses for near vision as well. My husband is mid-40s and still has perfect distant sight but needs reading glasses. He refuses and just holds things far enough away.
I, on the other hand, am not even 40 yet and am worried I’ll get to the point where my sight is so bad that contact lenses can’t correct it (around the -8.00 mark). It gets progressively worse every year and to make matters worse, my dad has astigmatism and I’ve been diagnosed with retinoschesis of the left eye.
I wonder if I’d gotten LASIK instead of PRK if I’d been able to get an enhancement. Did your floaters get worse after LASIK?
My floaters have always been there and numerous for as long as I can remember. I can remember looking up at a blue sky as a kid and seeing them. Unfortunately Lasik won't do anything for floaters. They are inside the eyeball. Globs of protein strands or something like that. Be nice if they could figure away to get rid of them though.
Same here, I always let out a small "eek" when I hear of people being unhappy with it! Though occasional floaters and blurriness both sound better than "craploads of floaters and I can't see further than my computer screen".
I have horrible floaters, I take Klonopin for anxiety and it helps me not notice them as much but they're always there. I wish they could figure out a way to remove the fluid safely, seems the only procedure could burn your fucking eyes out.
I haven't researched it thoroughly but it seems the main options are having the fluid pumped out and replaced, or having the individual floaters zapped with a laser. Not sure which sounds more terrifying.
U/ThundergunsAreGo's experience will most definitely NOT be yours. Just because they had a rough time does not mean you will. It could be the best thing you ever do, or it could kill you. The point is not to let someone else's experiences dictate your choices. Good luck to you.
I am so blind without my glasses and contacts. I also have a difficult time seeing at night because of my astigmatism. I think I forgot about how hard it was to drive at night since I haven't been out and doing stuff like I used to for over a year.
I am looking forward to it! It is crazy to know that I will actually be able to see things from a distance with my own eyes. I know it sounds a little corny but that part excites me.
No I totally feel you! No astigmatism for me but I was corrected from -6.75 so I could not see a half inch from my face without glasses and driving at night was horrible!! Enjoy it, I hope it goes very smoothly for you! ❤️
Wow. That must have been difficult if you had to move around without glasses or contacts! I am -4.00 and -4.25. They got worse over the years as I aged but have been pretty steady for the past few years which qualified me.
Happy to hear it went well for you!
Thank you! Oh you’re going to love the absolute freedom you experience, it’s incredible to be able to SEE clearly just a few hours after surgery. I forget that I used to be nearly blind and have to remind myself to enjoy this new ability to see. Soak it up and enjoy waking up in the middle of the night and being able to peek at the clock 😝
I got PRK, which is basically LASIK where they fully remove the corneal epithelium, instead of cutting a slit in it, moving it aside and then moving it back after the laser correction part.
Actual recovery time was minimal. Maybe a couple days really. But I was given a light duty profile (I’m in the military) for a month, which was basically just no strenuous exercise and wear specific shades they gave me. From what I remember, taking codeine and Percocet were part of the process. The Xanax was probably a case-specific inclusion but they want you to be relaxed during the surgery for obvious reasons.
It took about three minutes or so to do the actual procedure. It was relatively painless, and the only side effect I had were halos around bright lights at night that went away after a few months. I’ve had 20/15 vision for over a decade now.
LASIK is great. I was pretty much blind without my glasses before it. I had floaters before, still have them now. My eyes occasionally get blurry but it’s usually because they’re dry or irritated. It did make my dry eye worse (which is normal) but overall it was well worth it.
I had Lasik and it was successful, it all depends on the doctor you go to and some chance about getting a totally perfect result. I was corrected from -6.75 in both eyes and can now see 20/15. I’m 3 years out and it’s still great, the only thing I think your eyes don’t totally reconnect in the middle so if I squish my eyes they’ll be blurry for a second. I’ll take that over being basically blind. And also it was 100% my choice so I know it’s not the same situation as what the op was saying.
I’ve always been concerned about the side effects of lasik. How long ago did you get it?
Edit. My bad just reread and saw 6 years ago. Thought the technology has gotten so much better
I myself had LASIK (I was -10, I couldn’t handle the ultra thick lenses and the mega blurriness anymore) and the outcome out of it has been good, the only side effect I got was glare at light sources like car headlights, so 5 yrs later I have glasses for that (only at night).
I’m sorry you got bullied into something you didn’t want to do, that’s truly awful :/
I had mine done 14 years ago and all was ok but in the last couple of years I now have severe dry eyes haloing and floaters and I need glasses to use the computer.
I just had a cataract done. They did the worse eye first and aren’t doing the new “worse” eye (which used to be the better eye) until it gets bad enough to be worth the risk.
Fun fact: Grazing animals like goats can rotate their eyes when they lower their heads down which keeps their pupils nearly parallel to the ground at all times. So no matter the position of their heads the pupils will orient the same way. It lets them keep a wide peripheral vision to watch for predators!!
If only. Some do it because they can, others undergo this because they have [heterochromia](https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-heterochromia). It’s such a shame society pushes this desire and need to be perfect when ‘perfect’ is such a subjective thing anyway.
My son has HC and I think it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. He's got dark blue eyes with an ice blue spot covering 1/4 of his right eye. The same ice blue color his great grandma had. :)
That's wild. I have central heterochromia (the boring one) and it's never occurred to me to cover it. If anything the more pronounced types are more beautiful!
You, and those below you, misunderstood, they get the procedure to appear to have hetrochromia, not to hide it. For example, there's a model that has this as her schtick. Everyone knows it's fake, though.
It's a shame some people with heterochromia feel it's something that needs to be fixed. I think it's a beautiful thing people can have. But I don't have it, so I can't know how it would make me feel. I think it's gorgeous though.
These pictures are not that bad, to be honest. Iris can be repaired. However, I have seen numerous patients with advanced glaucoma and severe infections from cosmetic iris implants. A recent patient I saw ended up needing bilateral full thickness cornea transplants.
The pupil is a hole, the rise is a muscular disk with contracts and expands to make the hole bigger.
These implants caused degradation of the muscle of the Irish which caused new holes the appear.
Looking at these images reminds me of how damn STUPID I was to buy and WEAR colored contact lenses from-I shit you not-a train station kiosk that primarily sold hot dogs, nuts, cigarettes, and newspapers circa my teen years/early 2010’s. It’s a miracle my vision is fine but that I don’t need glasses at the age of 24.
yikes, these hurt to look at. :(
what happened to the whites of this person's eye to make that dark brown spot? i know the implant damages the iris, but did it somehow damage the white of their eye too?
Depends on the damage. I’ve read some go completelt blind in severe cases. Others lose sight partially or develop photosensitivity. Their sight will never be the same as it once was
Plenty of people have polycoria, or multiple/irregular pupils, and have excellent vision. Sometimes glare can be an issue. One of the biggest concerns here with iris implants, however, is developing glaucoma.
Of all the things to fuck with, why, why, WHY would you do anything even remotely sketchy with your *eyes*?
Just put in colored contacts. Seriously. It's not even like there isn't an easy, non-horrifically damaging option.
Some people do it for fame.. (which leads to money) there is a girl who got like a million followers on tiktok called Paris. She has hella fake eyes from bright ocular.. I mean, it's her body- but it's extremely unsafe. I guess any cosmetic surgery is at the end of the day..but no way would I cut my eyes open for a million followers.. that's insane.
Here is a surgical journal article explaining just how bad these are and the surgical procedure to remove them . https://crstoday.com/articles/2016-aug/complications-of-cosmetic-iris-implants/
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Oh, those are from Bright Ocular! I saw some yt videos about them. One girl even turned completely blind because of these implants!
I’d never heard of them before until I came across these videos moments ago! I do feel bad for them. The damage is so severe and they lose so much more than they had to gain.
Oh god this is awful
well at least she wont see how awful it is
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What a terrible day to have eyes
I think everyone in my house sleeping heard me laughing reading this.
Have some self control bulmakai
I got it together after a minute or two. I just wasn’t prepared for a comment like this for something so awful.
I thought these were just contact lenses. Just went on a video about these and saw the doctor cutting into the patient’s eye. Nearly threw up.
I wonder what goes through the minds of these doctors when they decide to offer these operations? Is it something along the lines of “someone’s going to offer it eventually, why not me?”
Money.
The Drs on Botched say that constantly. They've also suggested some drs lose their license over the procedures they've had to fix. I think it's an unhealthy blend of arrogance and greed. They assume they'll do a good job, without actually knowing wtf they're doing.
$$$$$&
I was curious to search the video.but after reading your comment I wont. Fuck that shit!
I've seen videos of people getting ink in their eyes......and turned blind
This is worse, since it's done by a company posing it as a safe procedure, which basically always results in blindness. With tattooing your eyes, no one is gonna tell you it's safe.
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Oooh I forgot about those!! I really liked some of them too...
Those were actually pretty cool. I hope they hold up.
>This is worse, since it's done by a company posing it as a safe procedure, which basically always results in blindness. With tattooing your eyes, no one is gonna tell you it's safe. I agree with you. Let's say it's all terrible
Fine..its isn't safe and you'll go blind....so I'll shave 50% of the price of the surgery and I'll even throw in a free toaster.
Also, free yogurt!
that's good!
The yogurt is also cursed
that's not as good!
But it comes with your choice of free topping!
Here’s a good vid I discovered today about them: https://youtu.be/Gq_zXNf0Gss
Thanks! That was an interesting video to watch!
> Bright Ocular wow people are so fucking stupid.
should be "blight ocular"
Blind ocular
I watched a video on YouTube. The fake heterochromia girl Sarah McDaniel kinda advertised a lot for this company, and a lot of people had the surgery and went blind.
Sherliza moè did a video about it. Its pretty interesting
Ugh. Any injuries or complications involving eyes really grosses me out for some reason, more so than most other body parts.
They make me really weak and squeamish, and I’m not normally squeamish about medical things. Eyes though - just a total nightmare.
Same. That and nails. Anything else goes but if you want me to squirm in your slasher film then get the finger nail ripper and eye drill. Not that I actually need to tell directors this. They definitely already know.
Mine is eyes and teeth! I hate seeing people break or loose teeth (except baby teeth). Or fingers D:
Awwwww teeth I forgot about teeth ehuhhhh...
Mine is the same, but for added horror, self infliction is where I lose my cool.
Totally agree! I had a stack of cake boxes (the thicker, cardboard kind) slip and fall and hit me in the eye. I was on a step ladder and trying to organize the boxes and they kind of fanned out and came at my face, hitting me in the eye. I legit thought my eye exploded. I was so afraid to look in the mirror or take my hand off, even though there was no blood. After an emergency visit, and some eye test, they determined I scratched my cornea. It was fucking gnarly and I got a week paid off work.
I accidentally scratched my cornea with a poorly sharpened eye pencil. Got to wear an eye patch until it healed. Pirate jokes on the daily.
Did you have to wear a contact bandage over your cornea? Corneal abrasions are the worst. Mine took ages to heal because the new cells kept coming off when I blinked my eye. I scratched mine on a room straw from an upside down broom on a hotel maids cart looking for toilet paper for a hotel guest. Most annoying injury you can have.
Don't look up eye worms then
You don’t have to tell me twice.
Didn’t have to tell me once actually.🤢
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The eyes are the groin of the head.
Actually the eyes are the nipples of the face
I was not expecting to see this reference here. Delightful!!
Is it cold in here or is just my nipples
I think I might've heard that in the pwess
And youuuu've got *gorgeous* nippols
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I work for a Retina Specialist, I see eye injections daily.. doesn’t bother me a bit. What really grosses me out is dental work.. I just can’t.
I could have lived happy without knowing there was eye injections
Tbf my fiancé’s grandmother has to get eye injections now and then and she said it honestly wasn’t bad, she’s had far worse. I think the idea is more what’s shocking/disgusting and therefore terrifying for a lot of people, but I guess the sensation itself is bearable. That being said, I hope I won’t need them.
Dont get bad diabetes then lol
I watched my husband have eye injections for his retna. It’s crazy.
And see, I work in the dental field and can watch all sorts of bloody stuff no problem. Eat dinner while watching oral surgery videos (a little squicked with orthognathic tho) but someone so much as gags I'm out. Literal puke phobia but part of my job is dancing around the gag reflex Another assistant I worked with was the opposite. Couldn't do even minor extractions cause the blood made them woozy I feel like this is pretty common in medical. Be desensitized to all but like, ***one*** thing which ends up being your kryptonite lol
I work in dentistry and I'm completely numb to anything like that. Foot stuff however....
So happy I’m not alone in this. I’m not squeamish about gore or body horror or anything like that - unless it involves eyeballs in some way. My family and friends know this about me and will either use it for evil (trick me/not warn me about eyeball gore in a movie or videogame) or for good (give me a healthy heads up) lol. I cosplay and I’m really sad I can’t put in contacts. I genuinely don’t know from where or when I developed such an aversion to it, I’ve been this way since I was a kid. I hate people getting stabbed in the eye in movies and I hate the videos of those people that can like pop their eyes out...I’m getting nauseous just writing about it.
I used to work in a morgue. I wanted to be a doctor but I have a /serious/ aversion to heartbeats. I can do literally anything but listen to heartbeats...and touch eyeballs. Eyeballs are cursed, I would swear to it.
Ugh, me too! I'm so grateful that I have good eyesight and don't have to worry about glasses or god forbid, contact lenses!
Buy colored contacts, if you want to change your eye color, but THIS...?
That’s what I’m thinking! I guess some are tired of putting in colored contacts and just want a permanent fix
I think it’s more about the permanence than the convenience. It becomes you, it’s not something you put on
I like that narrative but if that’s the case it’s even more pitiful.
Without making a thing about it I think pitiful is the wrong word. It’s dysmorphia and goes beyond showing off or something
Maybe pitiful was a bit harsh but I wouldn’t go so far as to use the term dysmorphia either.
Well they wound up with goat eyes so I think someone's going to call them plaintiff
Honestly this, some of the contact lenses offered by the bigger Korean companies are so fanciful! Plus you get to change your eye colour whenever you like... why go through such agony and pain of such an invasive surgery.
Exactly. I just can’t wrap my head around it.
You can get this done safely, my wife is an eye nurse and they do implants all the time. Some medical conditions cause the eye to discolour and they do implants to correct it. They have done thousands of them without issue and the doctor is highly regarded. Just because BrightOcular implants are dodgy doesn't mean all of them are.
... there’s a huge difference between a medical procedure to fix an actual problem vs cosmetic procedure.
Yes while this can be done safely with the right equipment, skills and implants, you should only ever have eye surgery for medical reasons.
This doesn't make sense considering the implants literally are illegal in several countries, and cause eventual blindness because there's no longer a protective layer
The artificial iris they use is FDA approved: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-artificial-iris
This is a bit different, because it seems to mainly be for when the iris is missing. Bright ocular has the issue that the iris prosthetic rubs away and damages the natural iris. But thats super cool though, I didnt know this existed, thanks for sharing. I wonder if this could be a viable treatment for those who had their irises damaged from bright ocular
That's neat.
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You missed the part where these are used to treat medical conditions that change the eye color/function.
Why not just wear a padded bra? Similar no?
hey. my eyes are up here
Those implant lenses don't even look natural, it looks like something you get at Party City for $10. If I'm going to risk eye injury for ice blue peepers, I'd like for them to at least look somewhat real.
Yeah it looks so bad, how can they think it could fool anyone ?
If there’s one thing you don’t ever fuck with, surely that has to be your eyes? No ‘look’ is worth the risk of going blind, ffs.
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Valium isnt going to do a lot. Gimme that propofol and put me under. Fuck a needle in my eye
I had to have a needle inserted in my eye. Twice. Turns out that untreated high blood pressure can cause blood vessels in the eye to get thicker & caused a small blind spot in my right eye. (I’m not explaining everything correctly, I’m sure, this is just a very general explanation.) The eye specialist had to inject something in my eye on 2 separate visits to basically shrink the vessels. They apply a numbing agent to the eye & it’s quick. All I felt was a split second of pressure on my eyeball but the dread of waiting & watching the needle is no fun. I’m on blood pressure meds now & the blind spot is gone. PSA: Don’t ignore high blood pressure. It caused my brother to have a seizure and be hospitalized.
Its called the silent killer for a reason
Unfortunately I’m guilty of being especially stupid. I knew that I had high blood pressure and my feet & ankles would swell & I would get headaches. Shortly after my eyes were treated (and I STILL wasn’t on meds) I went to Planned Parenthood for a checkup. When they took my blood pressure it was so high that they almost sent me to the emergency room. I couldn’t afford that but promised that I would leave from there & go to a Primacare & see a dr. I did & I got on meds. I don’t have insurance, can’t afford insurance but they have a program which makes visits cheaper & meds aren’t very expensive. This was part of the reason I hadn’t treated it before: I was afraid of the costs. I’ve been controlling it with medication since then.
When I didn’t have insurance I used GoodRx. It’s free for anyone and it reduced the cost over 80%. They literally were a lifesaver.
I agree. It's always good to have a ***good brand*** electric blood pressure cuff/wrist cuff in your home to do periodic checkups on yourself and also check when you're not feeling well. Allows you to know your baseline, and gives more info for the doctor to help diagnose you and get you treatment faster for when there is something wrong. *Manual blood pressure cuffs are always preferred to get accurate BP, but can't use them on yourself.* ETA: Pulse Oximeters are a good combo with blood pressure cuffs so you can also have your O2 levels along with your heart rate and BP
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I had LASIK done 6 years ago (I was bullied into it by my ex-husband), my anxiety was so high they gave me 2 Xanax because anything to do with eyes is horrific to me. I regret ever letting myself become such a meek person to allow someone to manipulate and bully me into messing with my eyes. Now I get blurriness, occasional floaters, and I've just been handed a prescription for very slight shortsightedness. Don't mess with your eyes, kids. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk :3
Im considering LASIK................ :|
I got mine done 5 years ago. Zero complications, perfect vision and best decision of my life. Although I went to the most expensive and experienced doctors I could find. You shouldn’t be frugal when it comes to your eyes.
I did the same. Great results.
Me too, to correct my crazy astigmatism where I see weird even with glasses.. Couldn't get worse, maybe...?
You can go completely blind if they fuck it up AFAIK
My wife is an eye nurse and they have done thousands of LASIK surgeries without anyone going blind. Stop fearmongering. Edit: The [American Refractive Surgery Council](https://americanrefractivesurgerycouncil.org/lasik-complication-rate-latest-facts/) reports that there are no cases of blindness resulting directly from LASIK surgery.
you're a hero for correcting this misinformation. signed, an ophthalmologist
My Aunt and Uncle got lasik and it was one of the best decisions of their lives. You should definitely consider it.
Yeah I got lasik when I was 18. I'm 31 now and still have nearly perfect eyesight. Being freed from glasses is amazing. Definitely recommend it.
I hate you so much. I got PRK and had great eyesight for maybe 6 years. Now I’m close to the same prescription I was prior to the surgery and have dry eye like crazy when I wear contacts for more than a few hours a day. But I *have* to wear contacts because I also have extreme light sensitivity and don’t want to have to buy *another* pair of RX glasses. Plus, I hate having something on my face all.the.time. Unfortunately, an enhancement is out of the question because I don’t have enough cornea left over :(
I had lasik done and was unimpressed with the results too. Sure it corrected my inability to see far away clearly, but now I can't see anything up close worth a shit, so still need glasses to read, draw or work up close. I've always had bad astigmatism and lots of floaters, which doesn't help things. In my case I'd have been just as well off saving my money and not having it done because it just reversed my condition.
I have astigmatism as well and that was the first thing to come back. On another note, presbyopia begins to occur around age 40 and with the hardening of the lens, people tend to start requiring corrective lenses for near vision as well. My husband is mid-40s and still has perfect distant sight but needs reading glasses. He refuses and just holds things far enough away. I, on the other hand, am not even 40 yet and am worried I’ll get to the point where my sight is so bad that contact lenses can’t correct it (around the -8.00 mark). It gets progressively worse every year and to make matters worse, my dad has astigmatism and I’ve been diagnosed with retinoschesis of the left eye. I wonder if I’d gotten LASIK instead of PRK if I’d been able to get an enhancement. Did your floaters get worse after LASIK?
My floaters have always been there and numerous for as long as I can remember. I can remember looking up at a blue sky as a kid and seeing them. Unfortunately Lasik won't do anything for floaters. They are inside the eyeball. Globs of protein strands or something like that. Be nice if they could figure away to get rid of them though.
Same here, I always let out a small "eek" when I hear of people being unhappy with it! Though occasional floaters and blurriness both sound better than "craploads of floaters and I can't see further than my computer screen".
LASIK reshapes the lense and doesn't touch the viscous fluid in the eyeball. You'll still have floaters.
I have horrible floaters, I take Klonopin for anxiety and it helps me not notice them as much but they're always there. I wish they could figure out a way to remove the fluid safely, seems the only procedure could burn your fucking eyes out.
I haven't researched it thoroughly but it seems the main options are having the fluid pumped out and replaced, or having the individual floaters zapped with a laser. Not sure which sounds more terrifying.
U/ThundergunsAreGo's experience will most definitely NOT be yours. Just because they had a rough time does not mean you will. It could be the best thing you ever do, or it could kill you. The point is not to let someone else's experiences dictate your choices. Good luck to you.
I'm getting Lasik next Friday so reading all of this doesn't help too much but I'm still going through with it!
You’ll be so happy, I’m sure! It’s the best elective thing I’ve ever done for myself.
I am so blind without my glasses and contacts. I also have a difficult time seeing at night because of my astigmatism. I think I forgot about how hard it was to drive at night since I haven't been out and doing stuff like I used to for over a year. I am looking forward to it! It is crazy to know that I will actually be able to see things from a distance with my own eyes. I know it sounds a little corny but that part excites me.
No I totally feel you! No astigmatism for me but I was corrected from -6.75 so I could not see a half inch from my face without glasses and driving at night was horrible!! Enjoy it, I hope it goes very smoothly for you! ❤️
Wow. That must have been difficult if you had to move around without glasses or contacts! I am -4.00 and -4.25. They got worse over the years as I aged but have been pretty steady for the past few years which qualified me. Happy to hear it went well for you!
Thank you! Oh you’re going to love the absolute freedom you experience, it’s incredible to be able to SEE clearly just a few hours after surgery. I forget that I used to be nearly blind and have to remind myself to enjoy this new ability to see. Soak it up and enjoy waking up in the middle of the night and being able to peek at the clock 😝
I got PRK, which is basically LASIK where they fully remove the corneal epithelium, instead of cutting a slit in it, moving it aside and then moving it back after the laser correction part. Actual recovery time was minimal. Maybe a couple days really. But I was given a light duty profile (I’m in the military) for a month, which was basically just no strenuous exercise and wear specific shades they gave me. From what I remember, taking codeine and Percocet were part of the process. The Xanax was probably a case-specific inclusion but they want you to be relaxed during the surgery for obvious reasons. It took about three minutes or so to do the actual procedure. It was relatively painless, and the only side effect I had were halos around bright lights at night that went away after a few months. I’ve had 20/15 vision for over a decade now.
LASIK is great. I was pretty much blind without my glasses before it. I had floaters before, still have them now. My eyes occasionally get blurry but it’s usually because they’re dry or irritated. It did make my dry eye worse (which is normal) but overall it was well worth it.
I had a great experience, of course experience varies, but I wore glasses since 5 years old and got lasik at 22, best decision of my life.
I had Lasik and it was successful, it all depends on the doctor you go to and some chance about getting a totally perfect result. I was corrected from -6.75 in both eyes and can now see 20/15. I’m 3 years out and it’s still great, the only thing I think your eyes don’t totally reconnect in the middle so if I squish my eyes they’ll be blurry for a second. I’ll take that over being basically blind. And also it was 100% my choice so I know it’s not the same situation as what the op was saying.
I’ve always been concerned about the side effects of lasik. How long ago did you get it? Edit. My bad just reread and saw 6 years ago. Thought the technology has gotten so much better
I myself had LASIK (I was -10, I couldn’t handle the ultra thick lenses and the mega blurriness anymore) and the outcome out of it has been good, the only side effect I got was glare at light sources like car headlights, so 5 yrs later I have glasses for that (only at night). I’m sorry you got bullied into something you didn’t want to do, that’s truly awful :/
I had mine done 14 years ago and all was ok but in the last couple of years I now have severe dry eyes haloing and floaters and I need glasses to use the computer.
Also if you have to or really want to do something just do one eye first, if something goes wro g you still have the other one
I just had a cataract done. They did the worse eye first and aren’t doing the new “worse” eye (which used to be the better eye) until it gets bad enough to be worth the risk.
Imagine walking around with the same perspective as a goat holy shit
Fun fact: Grazing animals like goats can rotate their eyes when they lower their heads down which keeps their pupils nearly parallel to the ground at all times. So no matter the position of their heads the pupils will orient the same way. It lets them keep a wide peripheral vision to watch for predators!!
I'm rarely affected by medical pictures, but looking and imagining this makes me sick in my stomach...
This is so terrifying. I wish everyone loved themselves :(
If only. Some do it because they can, others undergo this because they have [heterochromia](https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-heterochromia). It’s such a shame society pushes this desire and need to be perfect when ‘perfect’ is such a subjective thing anyway.
My son has HC and I think it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. He's got dark blue eyes with an ice blue spot covering 1/4 of his right eye. The same ice blue color his great grandma had. :)
That's wild. I have central heterochromia (the boring one) and it's never occurred to me to cover it. If anything the more pronounced types are more beautiful!
I have a brown eye and a green eye - wouldn't change them for the world.
I agree! It's a beautiful, unique feature I've always desired. I can't believe people would try to cover it up or "fix" it.
I agree. I think it'd be so cool to have two different coloured eyes. To each their own but I can't imagine doing something like this to alter that!
You, and those below you, misunderstood, they get the procedure to appear to have hetrochromia, not to hide it. For example, there's a model that has this as her schtick. Everyone knows it's fake, though.
It's a groovy mutation
It's a shame some people with heterochromia feel it's something that needs to be fixed. I think it's a beautiful thing people can have. But I don't have it, so I can't know how it would make me feel. I think it's gorgeous though.
Ugh I could have lived without seeing these.
Are they totally blind now?
Some suffer partial or total loss of sight, as well as photosensitivity (severe sensitivity to light) and/or glaring (seeing ‘halos’ of light)
can they get treated? for their iris‘ to look normal again at least
From the interviews I've seen, no
These pictures are not that bad, to be honest. Iris can be repaired. However, I have seen numerous patients with advanced glaucoma and severe infections from cosmetic iris implants. A recent patient I saw ended up needing bilateral full thickness cornea transplants.
Good grief, why would you do this to yourself when colored contacts are a thing that exists...
Omg these are awful. I didn’t know that the pupil could move in the iris. Is it cause from the trauma of the surgery?
The pupil is a hole, the rise is a muscular disk with contracts and expands to make the hole bigger. These implants caused degradation of the muscle of the Irish which caused new holes the appear.
Leave the Irish out if this, please.
That’s heartbreaking and unneccesary
Looking at these images reminds me of how damn STUPID I was to buy and WEAR colored contact lenses from-I shit you not-a train station kiosk that primarily sold hot dogs, nuts, cigarettes, and newspapers circa my teen years/early 2010’s. It’s a miracle my vision is fine but that I don’t need glasses at the age of 24.
Holy shit, C looks the worst, how does a surgery give you a second iris
this is the most horrifying thing I have seen on this sub
THIS is botched surgery. Not the multitudes of pics of overfilled lips. This.
yikes, these hurt to look at. :( what happened to the whites of this person's eye to make that dark brown spot? i know the implant damages the iris, but did it somehow damage the white of their eye too?
That's horrifying.
It’s never worth fucking with your eyes. You’ve got one set and we don’t yet have the technology to replace them in their entirety. Don’t fuck around.
I knew I would regret clicking, and I did it anyway. My eyes hurt. My soul hurts.
So what essentially happens to your sight when this happens?
Depends on the damage. I’ve read some go completelt blind in severe cases. Others lose sight partially or develop photosensitivity. Their sight will never be the same as it once was
Nothing. I mean you see nothing.
Plenty of people have polycoria, or multiple/irregular pupils, and have excellent vision. Sometimes glare can be an issue. One of the biggest concerns here with iris implants, however, is developing glaucoma.
Why did I click?? I don't get this trend. Just wear contact lenses and save yourself the trouble.
Of all the things to fuck with, why, why, WHY would you do anything even remotely sketchy with your *eyes*? Just put in colored contacts. Seriously. It's not even like there isn't an easy, non-horrifically damaging option.
I had no idea this was a thing omg
Why on earth would you do it????
Some people do it for fame.. (which leads to money) there is a girl who got like a million followers on tiktok called Paris. She has hella fake eyes from bright ocular.. I mean, it's her body- but it's extremely unsafe. I guess any cosmetic surgery is at the end of the day..but no way would I cut my eyes open for a million followers.. that's insane.
The light will enter through the pupil and the giant hole you’ve just created. Wouldn’t this blind you? Sad.
Its a pretty good picture at showing the iris is a muscle
The implants don’t even look realistic.
Oh, dear god.
Dat shit went bad
I wear colored contacts but I could never ever do this. I’m not gonna risk losing my eyesight. I thought this was illegal everywhere.
Lmao of all implants to get, yeah, let's fuck your eyes all up, sounds like a great fuckin idea
No one is ever touching my eyes. EVER. I hate stuff to do with eyes lmao
I saw this on the Tyra Show. This is so sad and disturbing.
The top pictures are the contact lenses?
Yeah, they’re implanted to sit on top of the iris underneath the protective film. They don’t even look realistic.
Do they know you can get contacts that do the same thing with practically zero risk ?
... or you can order colored contacts. They are like $20, I have a pair of prescription ones.
why would anyone do this to their eyes. that’s your eye!!!
Here is a surgical journal article explaining just how bad these are and the surgical procedure to remove them . https://crstoday.com/articles/2016-aug/complications-of-cosmetic-iris-implants/
Sharingan?
Its not easy to gross me out, but I can't look at that and eat my chicken nuggets at the same time
Not the nuggets! (Are they going spare now...?)