Did it 3 years ago - went from 20/200 to 20/20 in both eyes.  BTW - I am 52 years old.  It takes some getting used to as your vision "drifts" for the first month or so after the operation - as in, some days you have 20/20 - some days back to the reading glasses.  But it set in after a month.  For about 3 months I had "halos" while looking at other people's head lights driving at night - but that went away too.  Now - no glasses or contacts for the first time since I was 4 years old!!!  A great investment - the operation does not hurt and be sure to get a good opthamologist.  Mine is head of opthamology at the Medical University of South Carolina and learned how to do the operation from one of the guys that invented lasik.  Best health care dollars you can spend.

I would'nt do it. Actually,I've worn glasses since the 6th grade..nearsightd. Today,at 52 I hardly wear glasses at all anymore except for driving. I guess over time,my eyeball is getting closer to where it is supposed to be in shape. Had a friend have the surgery 6 or 8 years ago. He's not only back in glasses....he's having ttrouble with his vision. I'm not "electing" to go under a knife/laser,etc. period. However,hope it works for you all.

That is comforting(family member had lasik). Well I'm hoping that this isn't true (not that i'm saying your lying).

(Not that this is going to change anyone's mind about this decision)

My wife had RK surgery (which is an incisional, a.k.a. scalpel, alternative to the laser surgery) some ten years ago. Since she worked for the ophthalmic surgeon at the time, it was FREE.  
(Granted, had it cost us, she wouldn't have had it done; we are poor folk!).  However, her vision is still perfect to this day. (Oh, and she's been an insulin-dependant diabetic since she was a year old, for those of you with similar concerns)

At the time she had her RK surgery done, LASIK wasn't even approved in the U.S. yet (not until 1999).  However, radial incisional surgery for vision correction has been around in various forms since the late 1800s! Although approval in this country is always decades behind anywhere else, vision correction surgery is well past the period of "let's wait and see what happens."  We trust much newer technologies to heart surgeries and all manner of other important procedures.

If any of you are holding back on LASIK/LASEK because of possible long-term ramifications, there are other older options that will give you the same or similar advantages, and are old enough to have had decades of history behind them.

More information on the history of vision correction can be found here: http://www.eyeinfo.com/lasikwhatisrefsurg.html

As always, it's up to you what you're comfortable with.  (You chickens!   )

A friend of mine works for a very promininent vision correction specialist here in Chattanooga, TN.

She is one of the wealthiest people in our city and she was once featured on 60 Minutes, where she was awarded the honor of "Best Doctor in America"...so this isn't some quack we're talking about (of course, that term is subjective).

She does LASIK surgery know, but she used to do RK back in the nineties.  The owner of the company that I work for had this doctor perform RK surgery on her about ten or fifteen years ago, and now her corneas are shaped like washboards.  Her vision is degrading and she can never wear contacts again.
And this is surgery performed by the "Best Doctor in America" (according to 60 Minutes, anyway).
I am thankful everyday that I have God-given (nearly) perfect vision, but I don't think I would ever go under the knife (or laser, or whatever) for vision correction.  Unless, of course, I was blind anyway, and they promised me I could see again...
Just my $.02 on this matter...