I've just got home, having had Lasik at the Shaftsebury Avenue branch yesterday. The actual op was painless (although the smell was pretty gross) but after the drops wore off I had a lot of pain (for about 4 hours afterwards). I had elected to stay overnight in a nearby hotel to save journeying to home and back the next day for the check-up. I was glad of this when the pain kicked in. After the op I stumbled to my room, lay down and slept. Things got clearer from then on and were very good this morning. My vision is still not quite as good as it used to be with my glasses on (although better than they expected it to be), especially the close stuff which used to be fine without my glasses. They say that this will improve throughout the week. The anti-biotic and anti-inflammatory post op drops are quite painful (two lots 4 times a day for a week) and you can taste them - not nice. All in all I'm very pleased so far, safe in the knowledge it should keep improving. I am a little nervous about my 1 week check up at which they should know if it was too short or too long a 'burn' (I found it really hard to decide which choice was clearest each time in the pre-op checks), but would be happy to have it again for a correction if necessary as it was far less painful than I expected. Everyone else I saw had also had a positive experience, although pain levels and vision the next day varied a lot.