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Hope it goes well for you!

As for myself, I had lasik done on both my eyes in 1998. At the time, I had pretty bad near-sightedness, though I don't remember my correction. Basically, I couldn't read the instrument panel of a car without glasses; it was all fuzz. A week after the procedures (they did one eye on a thursday, one on a friday, something about not doing both eyes in the same visit), I had 20/20 in my right eye and 20/15 in my left eye. Actually, my eyesight was great after 24 hours in each eye, but they wanted it to stabilize before they did another eye exam, hence the week wait.

The procedure itself was very odd, but did not take long. I was in and out of the place in like 20 minutes on each day. The most important thing, at least that they told me, was not to disturb the "flap" for the first week. So I wore metal eyepatches taped over my face so I couldn't accidentally rub my eye (and tear open the flap) each night. Although it felt like I had sand in my eyes for the first day in each eye. And I had an eyepatch on for the first 24 hours in each eye, even during the day, to make it easier to keep my eyes closed, and to prevent me from rubbing it. Except for putting the antibiotic eyedrops in, I kept it very low key. Everything healed up just fine, and a day after the second procedure, I had no discomfort, and could see great, even though I kept doing the drops and wearing the eyepatches at night for about a week.

However, for the first few years, I saw big "halos" (like a ring of hazy light) around any light source that I looked at in darkness. For example, incoming car headlights at night, or lit signs for stores, etc. This is because the circle they cut the flap out of is as wide as possible without going too deep, which is wide enough to be larger in diameter than the iris during daylight conditions, but as your iris opens up for low-light in dark conditions, it becomes wide enough that it's now included the ripple in the surface of the cornea, which is the "dip" from where the flap was cut. This causes light refraction. Which is what causes the halo thingy. Rather interesting, though kind of annoying, but it lessened after maybe three years, and now I don't even notice it anymore; a combination of my eye smoothing out over time, and now it's pretty much so close to completely gone I don't notice it.

I still pass a driving exam without glasses, no problem, after 11 years. I can read stuff from far away, etc. etc. However, my eyesight is likely not 20/20 anymore, as there is fuzziness that there never used to be. I was told that all nearsightedness gets worse over time, and that this would correct, but it would eventually get bad again, but it was too hard for them to predict how many years that would take.

I don't regret the decision at all, and it honestly was perhaps the best medical decision I've made in my life. Changed the way I did things. No more being blind while in bed, in the shower, in a swimming pool, etc. And it competely changed sports in that I didn't have to deal with contacts and the irritation of sweat, nor glasses and their flailing around or fogging up.

Honestly, I highly recommend the surgery for anyone who is not a bad candidate for the procedure. Fantastic.