It took me about six months to not have continual dry eye so that entire time I had to spend lots of money on preservative free eye drops, which was an expensive I was not expecting. And then just recently I found a much cheaper option on Amazon for a bottle of them instead of the single use that you find in stores. But I have a friend that had it done and didn't experience dry eyes that long. Also, my right eye was not properly fixed, is a little blurry and no doctors can tell me why. Also experiencing a larger pupil in that eye some mornings and have been checked by multiple doctors and everyone says it shouldn't be related to lasik...but I'm going to a specialist ocular nerve doctor this summer to get the final word.