Hi, no matter what you do to your eyes, (Lasik or contacts) it's still nice to have glasses when you're riding for sun, wind, bugs, stuff that gets flung up off the road, branches, etc.

I wore glasses since 6th grade, until I got contacts as soon as soft contacts became available. I was the worst contact abuser in history, and never took them out. I had Lasik surgery on my -6 diopter eyes in 2000. Like Denise, I didn't have perfect vision the second after the surgery, and freaked out. But by morning, it was 20/40, which is _legal_ to drive, if you don't want to see the street signs or anything :-) It gradually improved over the course of a few months, and even more every year, and it now 20/15, plus I can read all the 20/13 characters that aren't round (C,G,O). I'm 47, though, and the eye doc told me if I had Lasik I would need reading glasses five years sooner than I would have without it, and I am feeling like right now I can't read teeny tiny print, but still read books, computer screens, etc. just fine. I just don't want to go back to even reading glasses until the last possible second, since it is like a miracle to not have to wear glasses or contacts now, and I've almost blanked it out of my mind that I ever had to...

A friend of mine at work went in to get screened for Lasik, and found out that she had some sort of eye disease that she wouldn't have known about until it got really bad, if she hadn't had that work up done. (They advised her not to have Lasik.)

Nanci