[daan]

Im quite curious about your experiences. Most of my family are doctors, a few eye-doctors, so I get to hear quite a few conversations about the subject.

To me it still seems a little dangerous as there arent really that much long-term observations yet, doctors are still not sure how exactly it will affect your vision later on. This is quite simply because they dont know how the cornea changes later on .. the only thing they know is that the cornea keeps changing all its life.
Also, the most common procedure here is to make a little circular flap, open it and then laser inside the cornea, closing the flap afterwards. This is believed to be a safer method for the cornea itself, with less risk of infection.
However, the flap isnt really attached to the cornea at full strenght anymore .. no bloodvessels ( or almost none IIRC ) run through the cornea, so the circular flap has no real chance to heal and attach to the rest of the cornea anymore.
Therefor they advise patients here to not rub their eyes anymore. That for the most part scared me actually, since I rub my eyes quite often and exercise full-contact sports ( such as jiu-jiutsu ) .. it happens that someone sticks a finger in your eyes sometimes ...

So .. did you have the procedure that way ? And if so, is it giving you any problems at all ?