POLL: 20/20, eyeglasses, contacts, Lasik?

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this wasn't supposed to be an anti-Lasik thread. I was just curious on how many people here use some sort of correction and how many still have perfect vision without any additional "help"

But since you started about Lasik. I work with LASERS, although much higher power (10 kW) and different types of lasers than the ones used in LASIK. I got burned at work once with a low power laser, only 2 kW. My skin vaporized in 1 second and left exposed flesh, the size of about a quarter. It didn't bleed. it closed the blood vessels and there was virtually no bleeding. You think that's good? hell no, it is WORSE. because there was no bleeding, it took 2 months to heal. today, 7 years later, there is no scar left, when I tell people about what happened and they look at my hand they can't believe it. but those 2 months were painful.

So I know very well what a laser can do. I don't shoot lasers in eyes, but I have friends that work for companies making such lasers. Most of the time these procedures are successful, but sometimes they do go wrong. I don't want to be one of those unfortunate cases.

I also know people that are extremely happy with Lasik. YMMV