I have been wanting to get LASIK for several years now, but it has always been to expensive, but thanks to a new medical study, I can afford it. LASIK cost about $5,000 and there are also fees for the initial screening, vision test, eye drops, medications and follow up appointments. All in all it is not uncommon for the whole package to be closer to $6,000.Over the years I have been watching my Health Savings Account grow to a modest amount of just under $3,000, so how is it that I am able to afford LASIK? Great question, let me explain.
So I was listing to the radio when I heard an ad to call for more information about a LASIK study. I will save you some of the details and tell you that instead of $5,000, I will pay $2,000, get all my meds and drops for free, follow ups for free and at the end of the study get a check for $500.
So what is the catch? Here's the deal. The FDA is doing a study on the eye drops that are used after the surgery. They are already on the market and commonly used in the %1 solution. The drug maker wants to know if the drug would work better in the %5 solution. So they are giving the study participants drops that are either %1, %5 or just a natural re-wetting drop (placebo). I have no idea which one I am on and I just take the drop like normal.
What they are hoping will happen is that those participants with the %5 will heal faster. Those who get the placebo will still heal, just slower. So, once a month for 6 months I have to go back and the run a bunch of test on me to see how I am doing. They poke my eye with this fine hair about 100 times. I'm not kidding there are 9 zones on each eye they test and you have to feel 3 pokes in a row before they will move on to the next zone. The other test is a reading test where they are trying to see how quickly your eyes can recover and focus on small print to be able to read faster.
Well keep me in your prayers and I will let you all know how it goes.
Keep up the fight
1 comment:
Will they at least be ill tempered sea bass?
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