Holy shit! I did PRK, even twice in one eye, and I was only a -5.0-ish in both eyes, my left with minor astigmatism. My dad split the bill with me 50/50, and it was the best decision I ever made. LASIK is a more common procedure, but I like the integrity of my eye preserved, and I'm willing to endure the pain of regrowing my corneas from scratch accordingly. Fast forward to now: I'll be hanging out, and somebody will say "I can't quite make out what the details are over there...", and I feel like Legolas. I'll look over and read out verbatim what I can behold, with better resolution than about 99.95% of other humans. If I'm among friends, I sometimes append the delivery of optical information with "AND I PAYED FOR THAT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH." Seriously consider the benefits of getting a LASIK or PRK procedure. P.S. I've had somewhere around 10 surgeries. My favorite? The repair of my extreme case of Pectus Excavatum. Epidural, catheter, Christmas, sneezingOHFUCKTHATHURT.-12.5 and -12.0 with a 3.75 and 3.50 astigmatism, plus color blindness
One of my 10 was inguinal hernia repair. Wasn't too bad, but it was still remotely ball-related. Anything "surgical" applied to genitalia is on another level altogether.
My friend spent four years in Korea and while he was there got LASEK, which is more common there than LASIK. The essential difference was they don't actually cut the cornea and it takes a while longer to heal, but it's worth doing so you don't have the chance of, y'know, losing your cornea one day. I think I'm going to go with that when I can afford to do it.
The doctor told me I should get the surgery that's not LASIK but where they implant a disk in your eye. Seeing as I have "special pupils" that cannot deal with contacts (make me pass out), I have my own doubts about implanting something to fuck with my pupils.