Can lasik be used to increase myopia

I have mild myopia at -2/-1.75 but I would like to be as nearsighted as my
girlfriend as we both have a fettish for nearsightedness.

Is it possible to have my myopia increased to say -6 using eye surgery?

Who would be willing to do such a procedure?

Thanks!

Charles

Dear Charles,

Lasik can in fact produce -6 diopters -- easily.

The "ethics" of it are in doubt. Very few people want their eyes
"worse" -- but that might be your choice.

Ask around -- you might find a "supporting" MD.

Best,

Otis

Can't you yokels tell this person is yanking your collective chains? A
fetish for myopia? That is truly funny. Even funnier you saps would
respond!

<(E-Mail Removed)> schreef in bericht
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> Dear Charles,
>
> Lasik can in fact produce -6 diopters -- easily.
>
> The "ethics" of it are in doubt. Very few people want their eyes
> "worse" -- but that might be your choice.
>
> Ask around -- you might find a "supporting" MD.
>
> Best,
>
> Otis

Otis , why not explained to this people your favorite theme '' the use of a
minus glass causes myopia increase ''
Must be a peace of cake.

--
Free to Marcus Porcius Cato: ''Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam"

In conclusion, I think that the "Otis therapy" should be destroyed

Jan (normally Dutch spoken)

"Charles" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> I have mild myopia at -2/-1.75 but I would like to be as nearsighted as my
> girlfriend as we both have a fettish for nearsightedness.
>
> Is it possible to have my myopia increased to say -6 using eye surgery?
>
> Who would be willing to do such a procedure?

Possible, but unlikely that any surgeon would agree to it.

As a mother of a teen who is thinking about piercings and tattoos, my advice
is to not do anything permanent and irreversible that you might regret later
(ie ok for piercing, nix on tattoo).

You want to match your girlfriend's myopia, but, in future, you may have a
different girlfriend or her myopia may change. Would you then have more
surgery? Here is a better idea to achieve reversable, changable myopia
(also more affordable):

Get fit with +4.00D Night and Day or Pure Vision contact lenses that you can
wear 24/7. That will make you a -6.00D myope without glasses and you can
then get -6.00D glasses to satisfy your fetish. Change the contact lens
powers if you change girlfriends or if her myopia changes.

Dr Judy

Dear Mike,

Can't you tell this guy is yanking you chain.

If he said he was going to jump off a cliff, I would
tell him that it was a "bad idea", but that if
he insisted on it -- there would be nothing I
could do to stop hiim.

Best,

Otis
Engineer

Dear Charles,

While most people do not want to "make their naked vision worse", there
is a way to do it.

A long time ago, Russian draftees who had normal vision (refractive
status zero to +2 diopters) would obtain a strong minus lens, say -3 to
-4 diopters. They would wear that minus lens all the time 16/7. By
the time then went for their physical, they could not read the eye
chart, and they would be disqualified because they had myopia.

If you wish, and can obtain it, just wear an extra -2 or -3 diopter
lens (over-prescribed) and you can personally verify this prediction.

This does depend on age. If you are 16 years or so -- the results (an
additional 2 diopters myopic) could develop in about a year.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND that you do this -- but experiments with primates
show this result.

The ODs insist this WILL NOT HAPPEN, and that wearing of an "excessive"
minus has NO EFFECT ON THE REFRACTIVE STATE OF THE NATURAL EYE.

Best,

Otis

<Jan> schreef in bericht news:4244656a$0$47680$(E-Mail Removed).. .
>
> Otis , why not explained to this people your favorite theme '' the use of
> a minus glass causes myopia increase ''
> Must be a peace of cake.

And yes there he is !!!!!!!!! (see the message in the thread below)

I must say, it is inexcusable of me to make a joke about this fellow Otis
and trying to draw him out.

Me apologizes to all the real eyecare professionals.


--
Free to Marcus Porcius Cato: ''Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam"

In conclusion, I think that the "Otis therapy" should be destroyed

Jan (normally Dutch spoken)

"(E-Mail Removed)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Dear Charles,
>
> While most people do not want to "make their naked vision worse", there
> is a way to do it.
>
> A long time ago, Russian draftees who had normal vision (refractive
> status zero to +2 diopters) would obtain a strong minus lens, say -3 to
> -4 diopters. They would wear that minus lens all the time 16/7. By
> the time then went for their physical, they could not read the eye
> chart, and they would be disqualified because they had myopia.
>

Otis, I question your story. First, wouldn't it be a whole lot simpler just
to lie when you were in front of the eye chart? Second, the Russian army
probably didn't care very much about how well their draftees could see "a
long time ago".

Scott

In article <hQQ0e.74393$ZO2.27375@edtnps84>, "Charles"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have mild myopia at -2/-1.75 but I would like to be as nearsighted as my
> girlfriend as we both have a fettish for nearsightedness.
>
> Is it possible to have my myopia increased to say -6 using eye surgery?

I would suggest counseling instead. Granted, you can have surgery to
change your gender, which is more drastic. But people who want their
gender changed, want it always changed. Surgeons won't do it until the
person has spent at least a year being the other gender.

I would suggest that you do something similar. Get contacts or glasses
that give you the vision a -6 myope would have. The nice thing is, once
you get tired of bumping into things, you can just remove the contacts or
take off the glasses, and your vision will improve.

--
Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
AIS
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