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MedicalWorker 04-30-2015 03:58 PM

Asking for LASIK
 
Hello, How long at my first duty station before it is appropriate to ask for lasik surgery without getting put on the duck list. Don't want to be a boot asking for that, it is consider offensive to whoever i ask.

I plan on trying to go fmf, will that be any different than blue side?

FutureND 04-30-2015 04:18 PM

To have LASIK you have to have an unchanging perscription for a year, so when you get to your command go see the optometrist, and a year later go back. It's a pretty simple process but it does take some time, I am actually getting mine next month.

Don't worry about looking like a boot asking about LASIK, take every advantage that the Navy offers.

MedicalWorker 04-30-2015 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FutureND (Post 53490)
To have LASIK you have to have an unchanging perscription for a year, so when you get to your command go see the optometrist, and a year later go back. It's a pretty simple process but it does take some time, I am actually getting mine next month.

Don't worry about looking like a boot asking about LASIK, take every advantage that the Navy offers.

Awesome sounds good, can i bring my prescription from being a civilian because it hasn't changed for a year

FutureND 04-30-2015 07:01 PM

Couldn't hurt to try.

LT Guppy 05-01-2015 12:29 PM

They wouldn't take my civilian eye prescription, but they only needed 8 months between appointments.
I was on the waiting list about 11 months.

FutureND 05-01-2015 02:46 PM

I guess that almost evens out then, I had 12 months between appointments but only 4 months on waiting list.


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