About a year ago I saved up for Lasik. Dr said I was good candidate, but I would need reading glasses. I am nearsighted and didnt yet need reading glasses, so felt the change off not worthwhile. Anyone my age (52) have successful Lasik ?

I had Lasik about a year and a half ago, when I was 46. My correction was 8.25. I couldn't even come close to reading the big "E" on the eye chart. After the initial surgery, my distance vision was excellent but had to wear reading glasses for almost everything closeup. About nine months later, my doctor did an adjustment to make my right eye for distance and my left eye for close-up reading. Now the only time I have to wear reading glasses is when I thread a needle. I am so glad I waited until I was older to do the Lasik and that I was brave enough to have them do my eyes differently. It would have been terrible to have the surgery before I turned 40 only to have my eyes change. Lasik was one of the best decisions I ever made. I now care so much more about my appearance. I've lost about 75 pounds, started wearing makeup and jewelry and really care about how I look. I highly recommend this surgery for numerous reasons!!!!!

I dont understand. So they did the correction for distance on both eyes first?

I think they naturally go for the best distance vision in the first place. Then he went in and "tweaked" it. He had me wear a contact in my left eye to see how much of an adjustment I would feel comfortable with to enable me to see closeup. He told me some people have trouble adjusting to having both eyes so drastically different. He said the bigger adjustment, the less probability of having to ear reading glasses in the future. I went for the biggest adjustment he would do and have no regrets. It was a brave thing to do, but after wearing the contact for awhile and talking to my doctor (who said our brains can eventually adapt to a certain amount of change), I went for it. I am so glad I did. My eyes are very different from each other, but it works for me. Good luck!

i, too, had monovision correction. that's where they correct one eye for distance and one for close up. i still need tweaking, but i love it and i'm 47. the close up is great, i need an enhancement on the distance eye. in the meantime, i have a pair of glasses to use when i'm driving. but if i was stuck with this scenario, i would rather wear glasses just when i'm driving than every single time i try to read something in fine print. i would be putting them on and off every few minutes. with the "driving" glasses, i can put them on when i get in the car and take them off when i get out. simple as that. i can deal with that, but hopefully, won't have to after the enhancement surgery.

Hi
Although I have never had lasik eye surgery I found this information in a journal article (Eye Surgery - LASIK: Buyer Beware. Harvard Health Letter. April 2002) and I thought you might find some of it helpful.
Schachar has a different theory about the aging lens. The lens is living
tissue and expands as we grow older. As it does, it edges out toward the
ciliary muscles. According to Schachar, the lens ends up cramping the ciliary
muscles, which makes it impossible for them to adjust the shape of the
lens and thus its focus. He has argued, therefore, that presbyopia could
be cured if the ciliary muscles were, in effect, stretched out.
Scleral expansion involves putting tiny pieces of special plastic into
the sclera to stretch it out. The sclera is like a tough but flexible outer
peel encasing the watery innards of the eye; we see it as the white of
the eyeball. It's Schachar's theory that pulling the sclera out with the
inserts, often called bands, will cure presbyopia by creating more space
between the lens and the ciliary muscles, thereby stretching the muscles.

I agree and that would be the perfect solution for me as well. My BIL ended up with the having to wear glasses for reading everything, etc. and that is why I backed out of the surgery. Thanks. The place i went was very quick to push you into it rather than talking out the options. Though they are highly regarded...glad I waited. I will now look into THIS....