My Vision Background

Hi! If you're at the point now where you're actually researching ICL surgery, then you and I probably have a lot in common. Let me guess: you've been nearsighted since childhood, can't see a thing without glasses or contacts, and you may be having problems finding contacts you can see clearly with.

I started wearing glasses in the 1st grade (the most fashionable blah-brown octagonal frames that 1975 had to offer), switched to hard contact lenses when I was in my early teens, and eventually switched to soft lenses when I could no longer tolerate the hard ones. The last few years I managed to get by with -10 lenses, even though I was really a -12. ICL had been suggested to me by my optometrist a couple of years prior, since I was too nearsighted for Lasik. I thought about it, but it's so expensive and seemed like such a drastic measure for someone who'd never had surgery before. I knew of a couple of local doctors who perform ICL, and finally went to a seminar offered by one of them. At the seminar, I got a good enough impression from the doctor that I decided to go for a consultation to see if I was even a candidate. No need in saving up thousands of dollars if I wasn't.

After learning that I was an 'ideal' candidate (degree of nearsightedness + age + eye health), I decided to go ahead with the procedure. It's a 3-step process: a YAG laser iridotomy and actual lens implantation done two days apart.