When I was about ten years old, my visual acuity began to deteriorate, and from then on I had to wear glasses. As I was already very sporty and active at that age, this \u201cthing\u201d bothered me even back then. I played handball in the youth squad and trained extensively in athletics. Handball is a contact sport and therefore \u201cdeadly\u201d for glasses. For this reason, I started wearing contact lenses at an early age. However, to this day I have not found a product that I truly felt comfortable with. As a result, I began early on to consider the idea of having my eyes lasered one day.
<\/a>Previous report<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/a>Next report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Newly gained quality of life \u2013 Report from Saturday, May 21, 2011 When I was about ten years old, my visual acuity began to deteriorate, and from then on I had to wear glasses. As I was already very sporty and active at that age, this \u201cthing\u201d bothered me even back then. I played handball in the youth squad and trained extensively in athletics. Handball is a contact sport and therefore \u201cdeadly\u201d for glasses. For this reason, I started wearing contact lenses at an early age. However, to this day I have not found a product that I truly felt comfortable with. As a result, I began early on to consider the idea of having my eyes lasered one day.Directly after completing my apprenticeship, I started my studies and, until the end of my education, I did not have the financial means to afford this procedure. After six months of professional work, I had paid off my debts and already had a few Swiss francs in my savings account. I then began to clarify and collect information about laser eye surgery. As I lived very close to the VEDIS eye laser centre, which has an excellent reputation throughout Switzerland, I attended an information event there, underwent a preliminary examination, and up to that point I was convinced by the price\u2013performance offer. Unfortunately, more and more (hidden) additional costs were added afterwards, such as insurance, or the offer of a better laser (of course, as a patient, you choose this, because you do not take risks with your own eyes). This seemed very unprofessional to me and, above all, everything became far too expensive.During my research, I repeatedly came across laser surgery offers in Istanbul via Google. However, I was always very sceptical about these (typically Swiss\u2026), and because I did not know anyone who had already been to Istanbul and could share positive experiences, I had a great deal of \u201crespect\u201d for taking this step. Further and more detailed research revealed the following convincing and interesting facts:\u2013 Everything is significantly cheaper than in Switzerland (including flights, hotel, surgery, follow-up examinations in Switzerland, eye drops, accompanying person, etc.)\u2013 They use a better laser than in Switzerland\u2013 One-to-one patient care\u2013 Better hygiene standards than in Switzerland\u2013 More experienced doctors\u2013 You can combine your Istanbul trip with a city break\u2013 More flexible surgery dates (almost every day)\u2013 Lifetime guarantee\u2013 Higher requirements regarding corneal thickness than in Switzerland\u2013 Possibility of S-LASIK if the patient has dry eyes (not yet available in Switzerland)\u2013 Etc.These advantages convinced me, and so I got in touch with Swisslasik (Mr Serdar Karaagacli) and met Serdar Karaagacli for a coffee to talk about surgery in Istanbul. This conversation was very important to me, as I did not know anyone who had ever been to Istanbul to have laser eye surgery. I only knew a Dutch person who had his eyes lasered in the Netherlands. In addition, this gave me a trusted contact person whom I could approach if any problems arose. This informal and very pleasant conversation convinced me 99% to undergo surgery in Istanbul.So, on a beautiful day, when I was once again outside without sunglasses and became annoyed because, as a glasses wearer, I never had sunglasses with me, I decided to go ahead with the operation in Istanbul. However, I remained sceptical about the offer right up to and including the day of my operation, as I always expected there to be some kind of \u201ccatch\u201d somewhere, because this excellent all-inclusive package was so inexpensive. To this day, I still have not found that \u201ccatch\u201d, because everything worked perfectly. I now have 100% visual acuity and can recommend this step to everyone. Anyone who does not take it is really only to blame themselves.Ueli Kramer Previous report Next report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":2964,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3007","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisslasik.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisslasik.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisslasik.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisslasik.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisslasik.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swisslasik.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"https:\/\/swisslasik.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3007\/revisions\/3008"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisslasik.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisslasik.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}