Oh goodness, I hit that by mistake! It definitely is a happy thing
Wonder how often that happens...
May I ask what your prescription was? My eyesight is also quite terrible by genetics and I want to consider laser eye surgery when I get older, but even though my aunt got laser eye surgery, she still has to wear glasses to read because her eyes were around -7.00
Wow... my eyes are around -6.50 to -7.00! I'm not sure if there's always a hard limit. I looked online and there was one surgeon whose limit was -12.00. The doctor said surgery on -15.00 would improve vision but not completely correct it, leading me to believe that surgery for eyes with power less severe than -12.00 could completely correct it. However the website also says that the limit varies from surgeon to surgeon. (http://www.allaboutvision.com/askdoc/lasik.htm)
I don't but you could always wear them for fashion later if you wanted.
That is true! For me, I might miss classes mainly because I've been wearing them for so long that I feel "naked" and unprotected without them! I'm kind of confused about how you said your prescription kept changing, though—isn't surgery usually done on people whose eyes have stopped changing much?
I had to wait for my prescription to stop changing, it was finally stable enough by last fall to book the surgery.
Mine was -7.50 before the surgery. I don't know my final result yet as it takes a few weeks but I can already see basically as well as I could with my contacts before the surgery. I've had a great experience though with minimal pain and discomfort and my vision the day after was better than the surgeon said was to be expected.