Originally Posted By fkurucz <<Is laser eye surgery covered?>> It certainly is not by private insurance in the US!
Originally Posted By Mr X How was it? (I wanna get it, but something about lasers in my eyes freaks me out...that plus I'm afraid it would be botched!)
Originally Posted By dlkozy Well, they only do 1 eye at a time. They put you barely under so that you wake up in the operating room already "strapped" down so that you cannot move your head and hands/arms. You are then mostly awake and are able to follow commands in the operating room. I was in recovery for about an 1 1/2 with a metal patch over my eye. You are given a couple of different kinds of drops that you have to use until told otherwise. My metal patch was taken off the next day in the Dr.s office. The worst thing about the patch is that my husband kept saying "ARGGG!" to me. When we arrived at the Dr.s office the next morning it was FULL of people with a metal patch on-which when he saw the waiting room, said "Honey, look, all of your pirate friends are here!" I had the second eye done 1 month later. The hardest thing to get used to was not reaching for my glasses to take off-they aren't there anymore. One other thing that was hard to get used to was the fact that I need glasses to read (just the Walmart variety-2.0 mag), which I had never had to do before. Would I do it again? YES~!
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<^^^It depends. Mine was.>> Then your insurance is gold plated. Our insurance will not cover it if you vision can be corrected via specs or contacts. And I word for a Fortune 50 company.
