LASIK
There's a book by (eye surgeon) Andrew Caster describing the LASIK procedure.
It describes the previous tecnologies too, PRK etc
I would recommend reading it before committing to anything. These are your eyes for gods sake!
I havent had the procedure although I have actively followed the techniques over the last 15 years and maybe one day I will. The specialist eye doctor who performed a recent eye medical for my class 1 recently recommended waiting for the next technology as its going to be far superior to LASIK. I am not sure but I think it might involve a smaller cut in the cornea and insertion of a tiny lens inside the cornea.
With regard to LASIK and from a laymans perspective I dont like the fact that doctors tell me the flap cut in the cornea which is peeled back before the ablation process cannot strictly grow back because there is no blood supply to the cornea.
Andrew Casters books reveals a situation where he (or maybe it was another eye surgeon) who hadnt done quite a strong enough LASIK job gave the patient another blast after carefully peeling back the flap after 2 or 3 months from the initial blast.
Sh1t I say!!!! I dont want a loose flap laying on my eye ready to be rubbed off by me lazily rubbing my eyes one day. No siree bob!
If a technique arrived that could solve that issue [in my eyes ! ] I would be first in the queue for the procedure. But even then I would have one done at a time to reduce risks. I can wear one contact lens at a time and I can guarantee the brain adjusts.
OOW
(about -1.75 dia shortsighted)