I had lasik with wavefront and intralase yesterday morning (Friday 27/7) at the clinic in Cambridge with Dr Tom Materman. My prescription was -4.5 and -5, and today is better than 20/20!
I can see almost perfectly now 24 hours later although vision is very slightly blurry and have only very mild discomfort in one eye! Very happy with the results.
I am also very happy with the clinic - staff were very supportive and friendly. I decided to have wavefront but not intralase after my 1st assessment. Then after talking to the surgeon he said my eyes were quite small so would have difficulty placing the suction cups on my eyes for the microkeratome blade and recommended having the intralase. In fact he seemed quite anti microkeratome, and I wasnt sure he was confident using it on me. Although when I quizzed him further he said he'd only ever had 2 minor problems using the blade in all of his patients.
The surgery itself I would not call pain free! I'm quite sensitive and was very nervous so maybe felt it more, but the pressure applied to my eye for the intralase bordered on quite painful. It was only 20secs per eye (the nurse counted down), although now I have large and obvious blood red bruises on the whites of my eyes, which will take 3 weeks to go. The lasik was indeed completely pain free, and just felt like cool air on my eyes, quite nice after the intralse. The eye clips used for this I could barely feel. I did find it quite hard to look at the lights and focus straight ahead as everything was swimming and double! The surgery team I had full confidence in but don't expect a great reassuring bedside manner.
Then it was over - all very quick. I could see straight away afterwards, but very blurry and I didnt want to open my eyes at all. For about two hours or so my eyes were really stinging (like when chopping a very stong onion, or like the time I put my contact lenses in after chopping chillies...). By the evening I was watching TV fine, but still quite light sensitive.
I would thoroughly recommend it, it was really only half a day of discomfort and I was far more nervous than I needed have been!