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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dei" data-source="post: 2961594" data-attributes="member: 40300">Being severely short-sighted (about -6.5 in each eye for those who know about such things) I've long been considering laser eye surgery as a way of lessening my reliance of glasses and contact lenses. I've asked my regular optician and he has mentioned that such a thing is best done on a pair of eyes that have remained at a steady prescription for several years and where the owner has finished growing. In my case I'm twenty and my eyes have been stable for going on two years so I have been considering eye surgery quite seriously of late. The thing is you hear so many stories about it causing blindness or things going wrong and I'm not entirely certain that I want to trust the answers to these queries to a Lasik consultant. So instead I turn to the mass of information and fact that is the ENworld forums. What have been your experiences of eye surgery? Are there any long term effects? Is it still too early for me to be considering this as an option? I would even be interested to hear if there are any other treatments available. I know there are probably a lot of people out there who are curious about the same thing so thanks in advance.</blockquote>