I’m honestly looking at getting Lasik just so I never have to deal with cleaning glasses so often.
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I thought the same a few months ago. I read on Google scholar about it and now I am trying to wear contacts which works fine for the most part.
LASIK is praised by the LASIK industry as safe and blabla. But after reading actual scientific studies about it, I felt pretty uncomfortable. There are studies showing that 40% of people suffer from intense dry eye symptoms for years after the surgery, most of them can never live without eye droplets again. If your pupils get too big in the dark, you will suffer from seeing stars and halos around lights, there is no way around it. LASIK only works in an area of 6.8mm pupil size, everything above that will see in a different spectrum, resulting in the halos. My eye doctor measured my pupils and said mine are 8.2mm in the dark, so they get too big.
Additionally, a lot of people don't get that good vision. I saw a study with 5000 participiants, only 70% of them reached ±0.5 dioptrin, even after multiple surgerys. 95% reached ±1 dioptrin, but lets be honest, with 1 dioptrin you can't safely drive a car or work on a PC, you still need glasses.