{"id":3385,"date":"2025-09-24T06:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/patient-reports\/experience-reports-treatments-in-turkey\/femto-lasik-treatment-in-istanbul-my-experience-report-from-wednesday-14-november-2012\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:53:03","slug":"femto-lasik-treatment-in-istanbul-my-experience-report-from-wednesday-14-november-2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/en\/patient-reports\/experience-reports-treatments-in-turkey\/femto-lasik-treatment-in-istanbul-my-experience-report-from-wednesday-14-november-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Femto LASIK treatment in Istanbul \u2013 my experience \u2013 report from Wednesday, 14 November 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Femto LASIK treatment in Istanbul \u2013 my experience \u2013 report from Wednesday, 14 November 2012<\/p>\n\n<p>I had heard a lot about laser treatment in Turkey, so I researched online and came across Swisslasik. Then I met Mr. Karaagacli at the health fair in St. Gallen, where he explained everything in detail. Around the same time, a good friend of mine had her eyes lasered in Switzerland. I also inquired in Switzerland whether I could have it done and how much it would cost. In hindsight, I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t go through with it in Switzerland\u2014it\u2019s three times as expensive as in Turkey, and my friend is still not satisfied even 10 months after her surgery.<br\/>I can say simply that my stay in Turkey was short and painless. I had a prescription of -7.5 diopters and wore daily contact lenses every day. When I wore glasses, my eyes looked so small. I thought to myself: either do it now or never. I was 31 years old and, one could say, \u201chalf-blind.\u201d That\u2019s unacceptable.<br\/>Getting my eyes lasered in Istanbul was one of the best decisions I\u2019ve ever made. The operation was painless. Afterward, my eyes teared up for about four hours, and everything was very bright. I slept for about three hours in the hotel and then went out to eat. The next day, we enjoyed the culture of Istanbul. Many thanks.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-baef362d wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicaltravel.at\/home\/agb\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2191\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/en\/patient-reports\/experience-reports-treatments-in-turkey\/experience-report-on-my-laser-treatment-with-supracor-in-istanbul-report-from-wednesday-19-december-2012\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/berichte-von-patienten-istanbul-turkei\/erfahrungsberichte-2012\/erfahrungsbericht-zu-meiner-laserbehandlung-mit-supracor-in-istanbul-bericht-vom-mittwoch-19-dezember-2012\/\">The previous report<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-container-content-5e2576f9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicaltravel.at\/home\/impressum\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2193\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/medicaltravel.at\/home\/berichte-von-patienten\/erfahrungsberichte\/erfahrungsbericht-zahnbehandlung-in-istanbul\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"981\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/en\/patient-reports\/experience-reports-treatments-in-turkey\/care-organisation-sensational-hospital-and-of-course-the-price-report-from-tuesday-6-november-2012\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/home\/berichte-von-patienten-istanbul-turkei\/erfahrungsberichte-2012\/betreuung-organisation-sensationelles-spital-und-natuerlich-der-preis-bericht-vom-dienstag-06-november-2012\/\">The next report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Femto LASIK treatment in Istanbul \u2013 my experience \u2013 report from Wednesday, 14 November 2012 I had heard a lot about laser treatment in Turkey, so I researched online and came across Swisslasik. Then I met Mr. Karaagacli at the health fair in St. Gallen, where he explained everything in detail. Around the same time, a good friend of mine had her eyes lasered in Switzerland. I also inquired in Switzerland whether I could have it done and how much it would cost. In hindsight, I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t go through with it in Switzerland\u2014it\u2019s three times as expensive as in Turkey, and my friend is still not satisfied even 10 months after her surgery.I can say simply that my stay in Turkey was short and painless. I had a prescription of -7.5 diopters and wore daily contact lenses every day. When I wore glasses, my eyes looked so small. I thought to myself: either do it now or never. I was 31 years old and, one could say, \u201chalf-blind.\u201d That\u2019s unacceptable.Getting my eyes lasered in Istanbul was one of the best decisions I\u2019ve ever made. The operation was painless. Afterward, my eyes teared up for about four hours, and everything was very bright. I slept for about three hours in the hotel and then went out to eat. The next day, we enjoyed the culture of Istanbul. Many thanks. The previous report The next report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":3328,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3385","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3385\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicaltravel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}