Follow-up details

After sharing my blog with someone, I came up with a few more details:

I did mention the price in the blog and that included everything, and because I used TLC (The Laser Centre) I will continue to be covered for life, as long as I go to all my follow-up appointments, i.e. the 1-day, 1-week, 1-month, 3-month, 6-month, 12-month and once a year after that. I just had my 6-month appointment and they’ve confirmed that I will not need the surgery “again”. By that, what sometimes happens is that the eyes think they are damaged and sometimes tries to repair themselves by reverting back to the original prescription, but I’m good to go now.

Also, the first few follow-up appointments can or should be done at the laser centre but the annual ones can be done at one’s own optometrist if you wish. I personally find TLC more convenient to get to for my appointments. My original optometrist though actually got his eyes done at TLC too which is a big part of the reason I chose them.

So, yeah, the price includes everything from start to finish which means they will retest your eyes like normal, they do not go by your contacts or glasses prescription. Besides, if your friend chooses to get custom surgery (the best there is), that means there are like 250 different prescriptions throughout each eye so they literally customize the laser to fix each tiny little bits of your eyes to each individual prescription. Generally, with contacts or glasses, we only have one prescription per eye but custom laser surgery may even allow you to have better than 20/20 vision. Mine was slightly better than perfect the following day but it’s settled at a strong 20/20 thereafter.