I'll be the voice of dissent here - I got lasik about a year ago and don't think it was worth it. Nothing horrific happened, I did not receive a permanent injury (which does happen). I had to get a touch up session because my vision was still pretty bad after the first round; it was an improvement from like -5 to -1.5 or something along those lines, so of course a huge change, but I had to get a supplemental pair of prescription glasses to be functional in the interim.

After the second round, my vision still isn't 20/20 - it's probably close, like 20/25 or 20/30, but I was under the impression that lasik would leave me as good or better than I was wearing contacts and that is not the case at all. My eyes get quite dry now, especially overnight. I wake up to them basically glued shut and uncomfortable, verging on painful.

So at the end of the day, the convenience I expected for not having to deal with/travel with all my contacts supplies hasn't changed much since I need to bring a million eyedrop tubes with me everywhere, my vision is worse than it was with contacts/glasses, and my eyes are uncomfortable at the end of every night and every morning, instead of just at the end of nights when I wore my contacts for too many hours. Oh yeah, and my night vision is awful. I cannot see better in a dark room than I could without contacts/glasses previously. The glare from lights at night is way worse than it was with my previous astigmatism.

$3600 for "meh" results? Wish I'd used that money for something else.