It is significantly less than 1%, and most of the complications can be fixed with additional surgery or simple drug prescriptions. Most of the complications ten

It is significantly less than 1%, and most of the complications can be fixed with additional surgery or simple drug prescriptions. Most of the complications tend to happen with patients for whom pre-op examinations showed that everything wasn't perfect. All in all, catastrophic failures (worst eyesight than before the operation) are very, very rare. IIRC it is something like 0.0005%. Honestly, I think you should at least have a serious talk with your eye doctor about the possibility of having surgery. This doesn't commit you to anything, but at least you'll have given it a serious thought. I did have laser surgery about a year ago, and it definitely changed my life for the better. I was only mildly short sighted, but it proved to be a huge inconvenience to practice sports, but also when breaking glasses, forgetting them, etc... Not to mention the huge boost to my self-esteem: I much prefer my face without glasses. The surgery technique that was used in my case is femtosecond laser, and it is as close as a miracle as modern medicine can get: the surgery lasts basically 15 minutes during which you are put into 2 machines successively. You start seeing again after the effect of the anesthetic dulls off. You get back to your home, have a good night of sleep. The morning after, you have a perfect eyesights. 15 years ago, with less advanced techniques, you had to wait for about a week for the scars to heal. Compare that to the fact that I was back to work only 24h after the surgery.