Sounds like you have an excellent facility to go to there. Most people are not so lucky. I believe the vast majority of lasik is done at lasik mills where the dangers are either not talked about at all, or they're brushed off.

Nobody's saying these happen all the time, or even frequently. It depends on your own choices. To me, I'd rather wear glasses the rest of my life rather than take a 1 in 100,000 chance of making my eyes worse, or even worse, losing some night acuity.

Did you have your night vision carefully tested both before and after? There are two effects that people sometimes experience. One is losing some acuity (not being able to see in quite as dim light as before) and the other is improper correction of the periphery of the cornea; when your iris opens up at night and that part of the cornea comes into play, their vision goes to hell. So they can see very well in the light, but have bad and uncorrectable vision at night.

Again, it's not common, but it happens. If you weren't informed of these possible outcomes, then either you weren't listening carefully or your provider was not forthcoming. My doctor gave me a pamphlet when I asked about it, and it laid out all of this stuff.

All that said, I know several people who have gotten lasik, and all but one has better than 20/20 vision now, and the one that doesn't still has good enough vision to not really need glasses all the time.

But for me, glasses do not bother me in the least, and I can buy glasses for the rest of my life for less than what lasik currently costs. In fact, when I wore contacts, I probably spent more on protective glasses than I do on prescription glasses when I'm wearing them.