First post. Googled a few times and this site kept showing up on the first page. Hoping to get some help so I don't screw up my chances of keeping this new job.
I just got a job that requires me to get an FAA Class II medical, even though I'm not a pilot. I recently went in for the first of two lasik operations with the intention of doing monovision (one eye set for distance, and the other set for near). The distance eye operation went well and initial results are 20/15. That was a month ago, and I was scheduled to get the other eye done next week.
But now that I have this new job and need to get the FAA medical, I googled FAA LASIK MONOVISION and hit what looks to be a red flag, as if I understand it correctly the FAA will require 6 months of recovery before I'd be issued a medical. Or am I wrong, and they will issue the medical while I wear corrective lenses (to compensate each eye for both distance and near vision)?
I could go ahead and get my other eye corrected for distance, but that would defeat the point of why I wanted to go with monovision in the first place. As it is right now, with my one eye corrected for distance, I can see well from computer-screen or arms length out to distance, but would need the second eye corrected with either cheaters or monovision lasik to see well closer than arms length.
Hopefully this makes sense to you. In a nutshell, I currently have my dominant eye corrected via LASIK for distance-only, and my non-dominant eye uncorrected but useful for computer-distance vision. Looking for advice on how to proceed. This job is something I don't want to walk away from, but I also would like to not lock both eyes into a far-sight oriented LASIK option.
I just got a job that requires me to get an FAA Class II medical, even though I'm not a pilot. I recently went in for the first of two lasik operations with the intention of doing monovision (one eye set for distance, and the other set for near). The distance eye operation went well and initial results are 20/15. That was a month ago, and I was scheduled to get the other eye done next week.
But now that I have this new job and need to get the FAA medical, I googled FAA LASIK MONOVISION and hit what looks to be a red flag, as if I understand it correctly the FAA will require 6 months of recovery before I'd be issued a medical. Or am I wrong, and they will issue the medical while I wear corrective lenses (to compensate each eye for both distance and near vision)?
I could go ahead and get my other eye corrected for distance, but that would defeat the point of why I wanted to go with monovision in the first place. As it is right now, with my one eye corrected for distance, I can see well from computer-screen or arms length out to distance, but would need the second eye corrected with either cheaters or monovision lasik to see well closer than arms length.
Hopefully this makes sense to you. In a nutshell, I currently have my dominant eye corrected via LASIK for distance-only, and my non-dominant eye uncorrected but useful for computer-distance vision. Looking for advice on how to proceed. This job is something I don't want to walk away from, but I also would like to not lock both eyes into a far-sight oriented LASIK option.
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