Before you turn on the mutual admiration switch, you fence sitters might want to peruse this:
http://www.lasikflap.com/forum/
I'm not saying it's (the surgery) not a good thing. But I think I'll wait awhile.
Pinned, if you're going to let the venting of a grand total of 121 forum participants there, out of the millions of people who have undergone the procedure over the past several years, be a deciding factor for you, that's your loss.
It's true, anyone who blows sunshine up your skirt about the procedure, or throws around cavalier assurances and guarantees is full of it. The fact is, the body is a very complex system and even 99% good outcomes inherently means 1% not-good outcomes.
My wife was disqualified for LASIK because of other health conditions that would adversely affect the healing process in her eyes.
Choosing a reputable, experienced doctor is a key part of this. Research it, don't just pick a name out of the phone book, or shop by price. I could probably have saved a few hundred bucks but I felt confident about the experience and credentials of the doctor handling my procedure, and that he wouldn't just hustle me through the line just to get a paycheck. The preop exam was comprehensive and detailed, involving a fluorocaine examination of the surface of my cornea in addition to the usual corneal mapping.
For me, I was utterly and completely dependent on my glasses, to the point where if they fell off my face to the grass, I had essentially no hope of finding them. I was handicapped by vision that without glasses would have qualified me as legally blind. So the weight of the decision fell heavily on the side of going forward, in spite of the risks.
Risk of halos and glare? I already had halos and glare thanks to my hyper-density high-tech glasses. I could look at a traffic light at night, and by turning my head, shift the glowing red circle so it was hanging in mid-air thanks to the refraction through my lenses. The green circle would shift much less significantly.
Risk of severe complications? A 1% risk, or even a 5% risk, weighed against the every single day severe complications of having -10.5 myopia wasn't hard to balance out.
It's going to be a different calculus for every person. Even though I feel like the supporting character in Luke 18:35, not everyone is going to feel that way, and if your glasses are just a mild annoyance, rather than a debilitating crutch affecting every single aspect of your life - work life, home life, sex life, ___ life - day and night, year after year, then the balance for you is going to be significantly different than it was for me.
I'm not sure I would have gone under the microkeratome for a mere 20/75 in one eye, personally, but that was GarryC's decision.
If you're content to wait, that's certainly your perogative. I waited for years, past the Radial Keratotamy procedure that was popular in the early 90's, and wound up with exceptional LASIK results in 2001 or so.