Any optometrists here? I'm 23 and I want to get laser eye

>>18461537
Imagine cutting a tomatoe slice from a whole tomatoe, that is what they will do to your eyeball before they shoot the laser.

>>18461605
Not necessarily. For myself they put a soft ring on the surface of the eye then dropped some kind of chemical in the middle that removed the epithelium before performing the ablation.

Not needing glasses is pretty nice. Especially when doing things that need goggles like snorkeling or skiing or playing paintball. The only downside is that I get painfully dry eyes sometimes, but I think that may be because of excessive computer use that Cryzal lenses used to protect me from. I weirdly miss having glasses sometimes, they were a feature that was part of me, but I try and remember I actually hated them.

By the way, if you get PRK the recovery is brutal. Several days spent walking in circles in the dark, listening to music and shaking my hands trying to forget the pain. Lazik (the tomato surgery the other anon talked about) is apparently less painful and faster to recover from.

>>18461537
It is risk as any other operation.

What they dont tell you is how big chance is that your eyes will get worse than you are now. The money are always on the 1st place. Your health? Somewhere at the bottom.

How many dioptres you got? You are far sighted or short sighted?

>>18461537
Depends on your refraction at this point, since it will limit your choice on excimer surgery

Most older colleagues of mine debate the two most frequently done - LASIK or PRK

The thing with LASIK, the example with the tomato is easy to visualize, they don't actually remove a whole slice, they make a "lid" that remains attached to the cornea - like a hinge

The flap is the thing you have to be careful from that point on, so it depends on lifestyle and job (think contact sports for example...bad idea)

PRK on general has a worse initial period, but without the potential flap complications

Some girl I knew got it done recently, I hear they fucked her shit up. I'll wait a few decades before I let some retard point a laser at my eye.

>>18462947
>>18462943 here
Yeah most times a Excimer surgery goes without a hitch but when it goes bad it's goes the worse way possible

OP I'd say stick to contacts for now if you are not sure, if not get a second, third and fourth opinion