I had Lasek at the Manchester clinic on the 26th November. My earlier initial consultation, I found to be very thorough and the staff at the Sheffield Meadowhall branch were happy to answer all my questions and were very reassuring. The surgery itself I found a little uncomomfortable, actually I was scared to death! I had been told I would have a sedative but apparantly they don't do that anymore. It was painless at least. When the anasthetic wore off my eyes became painful and very light sensitive. I found it less painful if I lay with my eyes shut during this time. The next morning my eyes were still puffy and light sensitive but but the pain had pretty much gone. By the evening I found I could watch TV with sunglasses on. My vision was very clear with none of the blurriness I was told to expect. When the contact lense was removed three days later my eyes became light sensitive again but this had gone two days later. They did feel very gritty again but this didn't last more than a few hours. I had my two weeks follow up appointment yesterday & my vision has improved a lot over the last two weeks and all appears to be healing well. There is a slight cloudiness in one of my eyes but I am told this will clear shortly. On the whole, it was all well worth any pain & discomfort I had just to be free of glasses & contact lenses! The staff at Optical Express were reassuring at every stage. I would recommend them to anyone considering laser surgery.