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Ace_Austin

Ace_Austin

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Well I knew I wasn't getting off Scot free on it. I just got the word NAMI no likey my eyesight. Aparently my cyno-somthing-or-another is +1.25 where as they would only accept +1. The do not recomend wavier. It would have been nice had I known this 4 months ago to get some PRK going on if possible. Time crunch is I'm 7 weeks out from getting my bars. Not enough time even on the fast track to get cleared. Anyone seen anything like this before can give me any recomendations or ideas? Thanks
 
Brett327

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Ace_Austin said:
Well I knew I wasn't getting off Scot free on it. I just got the word NAMI no likey my eyesight. Aparently my cyno-somthing-or-another is +1.25 where as they would only accept +1. The do not recomend wavier. It would have been nice had I known this 4 months ago to get some PRK going on if possible. Time crunch is I'm 7 weeks out from getting my bars. Not enough time even on the fast track to get cleared. Anyone seen anything like this before can give me any recomendations or ideas? Thanks
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Sounds like astigmatism and I don't think PRK fixes that. Bottom line, do what you can, but not everyone can be PQ for pilot.

Brett
 
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joboy_2.0

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Yes. The "cylinder" portion of your prescription describes astigmatism. It can be fixed with PRK, but isn't a guaranteed thing.
 
Brett327

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joboy_2.0 said:
Yes. The "cylinder" portion of your prescription describes astigmatism. It can be fixed with PRK, but isn't a guaranteed thing.
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What is it that PRK can't fix - farsightedness? Or am I living in the 20th century? :D

Brett
 
Ace_Austin

Ace_Austin

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I'm setup to have my eyes rechecked in two days. ( On the day of the test, of the 3 tests I had my vision improved from legally blind to almost perfect with each one.) I'm only slightly outa whack on that bad day, so hopefully this improves.
 
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joboy_2.0

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Brett327 said:
What is it that PRK can't fix - farsightedness? Or am I living in the 20th century? :D

Brett
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PRK can fix pretty much anything, although you are somewhat correct: It has less success with farsightedness. But there is a caveat. If the regular refractive error is bad enough, after PRK you could end up with astigmatism that you didn't have before. Nothing is perfect, although the result of PRK is usually a lot better than what the patient had before.
 
Ace_Austin

Ace_Austin

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25/20 Right 30/20 Left... that was on the 3 hours of sleep-snow stormdriving- sick as hell day. Not a horrible amount of correction to be done. Anyone wanna place bets on round two?
 
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joboy_2.0

professional undergraduate
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Ace_Austin said:
25/20 Right 30/20 Left... that was on the 3 hours of sleep-snow stormdriving- sick as hell day. Not a horrible amount of correction to be done. Anyone wanna place bets on round two?
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Not to be a notation Nazi, but I think you mean 20/25 and 20/30, correct? Because 25/20 and 30/20 are technically better than 20/20.
 
bunk22

bunk22

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Are your palms hairy? That might gives us a clue as to why your eyesight has issues. I'm pretty sure thats how I went from 20/20 in 93 to about 20/70 by 2001. Two 6 month deployments, a lot of rack time :eek:
 
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RHPF

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Congrats... that must be a nice feeling. What was the change? A nicer doc? Or did your eyes get 'better'?
 
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