I thought about it for at least 5 years before actually taking the plunge because it's such an unknown, you know? And not strictly necessary, just a luxury. But it is cool I still don't quite believe it, actually. I feel like I could fix the gritty feeling in my eyes if I just took out my non-existent contacts. Very odd.

I can say with absolute honesty that at no point in the procedure did I feel any pain or even discomfort, really. They anaesthetised my eyes (with drops, not needles), so the only grossness was that I knew what they were doing. I'm pretty sure it was entirely needle-free. And, today when I went to get the protective contacts out, I made him give me a topical anaesthetic, so that was completely sensation-free as well.

And to be fair, the pain I experienced in the aftermath - the first 36 hours or so - was not much worse than peeling a particularly stingy onion. Just... kinda prolonged. I was a bit of a baby about it, but objectively it wasn't awful. AND, if you did happen to go for it, you could take a different surgical option - mine was LASEK (http://www.ultralase.com/vites/treatment-choices), which is cheaper and nastier than the others.

I'm all for it. I'll be recommending it to everyone once I'm all healed up and can perform feats of vision at will. \o/