Reply #5: Had LASIK 9 years ago.

[leftyclimber]

Still wear glasses.

But the objective was to get me out of hard contacts, which worked. I save about $700 every other year on glasses and contacts (last pre-LASIK glasses $720, pre-LASIK contacts about $225, versus $150 every other year now for glasses). So from an economic standpoint (and not having to wear RGP contacts) it was worth it.

If it's only for reading vision, they'd do one eye and leave the other eye alone. You'd have to retrain your brain to do distance out of the un-done eye and reading out of the done eye. Reading glasses would be cheaper.

I'm one of the 5% who had complications (posterior vitreous detachment -- I have a very high likelihood of retinal detachment and have to have an annual exam to make sure my retinas aren't falling off), so I'm kind of ambivalent about the whole thing. YMMV.