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Originally Posted by Runum View Post
I was shopping for eye surgery several years ago and I had one well known DFW surgeon tell me I was not a candidate for Lasik but that he would do PRK on me. Cost was about the same. I got to researching the recover time of PRK and did not like the pain and healing time requirements. They also wouldn't do but one eye at a time.

I got a second opinion from another, equally well known, eye surgeon and he said Lasik would be no problem for me. So I ponied up about $3500 cash and had them both done at the same time. I got monovision so I read out of one eye and see longer distances with the other. No reading glasses. I was driving the next day, no pain. One side effect has been dry eye. I do keep medium weight eye drops around the house.

I wore glasses for 30+ years. I would do this Lasik again in a heartbeat.
What was the reason that the 1st doc said NO? Was the dry eye the reason? Read a report that a pre-law student committed suicide from the dry eye. Considering this myself and have heard it is not so good for us older guys, but you are probably the same age as me - what age did you have it done?