I might be the perfect person to ask about this because I've literally gotten both - LASIK in my left eye and PRK in my right.
LASIK has better results, immediate results, and no pain. It's downright incredible. Literally 2 hours after the surgery I was seeing better than 20/20 vision and it hasn't changed since. PRK is quite a different story though. The results are still decent long-term, but my vision remains blurrier than I was hoping for in my right eye. The first week after PRK you'll be relegated to staying in a dark room because light hurts your eye intensely. The first three or so months you won't see very well out of it at all. Around 6 months you'll start getting closer to your final results, but it will still heal for over a year. And it never got as good as my left eye. I've thought about even getting contacts for my right eye because it's a little annoying, but like, it's not terribly blurry or anything. Just a little. If I didn't get a taste of LASIK in my left eye, I wouldn't know what I was missing out on.
Basically, if you can get LASIK in both, that's absolutely what you want. It's miraculous and there's a reason it's been the go-to standard, unless you simply have to get PRK because of your corneas. For me, I was blind in my right eye for 2 years because of a corneal ulcer, so the fact that I could even get PRK was kind of a miracle in itself. It's hard to complain about my results after being blind.
Good luck, DC! Here's hoping you qualify for LASIK.
Sounds about right with PRK. A coworker of mine has gotten PRK, and swears by it, but warned me about it taking over a year to fully heal, and even after a few years, he says that his eyes are not at 100% but he's cool with it cause he can redo the procedure later on down the road if he needs to. LASIK is a one-time thing, but I'm heavily leaning towards that one if I qualify after hearing all your stories. Thank you!
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