I had LASEK surgery at the end of November in Bristol on boths eyes. My prescription was -1.25 and -2.25 with an astigmatism. My eyes were out of focus with one another and I was short sighted but through sheer laziness, I never took my glasses off and therefore ended up needing them for everything but sleeping! I went for the consultation in Cardiff which was just like a very thorough eye test taking about 1 hour. My eyes were very light sensitive after as they dilated the pupils but not uncomforable. When they said I could have the op I booked straight away and had to pay a £200 deposit. Nothing else needs to be paid until just before the surgery. I was very nervous as the date was approaching and made my husband's life hell for a few days. Although my first appointment was cancelled due to an air conditioning unit breaking it was the best news for me as, after the disappointment of being cancelled, I went on this website to look at peoples views of the surgery and it made my nerves fade away. I was so excited. My new appointment was only 5 days away and I couldn't wait. Dr Giledi was really nice, although I couldn't understand a lot of what he said I got the gist of the conversation. Make sure you ask questions before the op, if you have any, as the pre-op consulation did seem a bit rushed. Don't be frightened to ask. No-one can tell you to not be nervous as it is only natural but my experience was really excellent. You get in a chair like a dentists and they lower you backwards. Anesthetic drops are put in. These do sting a bit but you just close your eyes and it lasts seconds. When they mention that they are going to clamp your eyes open it is just like holding your eyes open with your fingers, no worse than that. I was worried about not being able to blink but as they only do one eye at a time, you are free to blink with the unclamped eye and this psycologically makes you think that you have blinked with the other eye. If felt fine. You have already had the anesthetic drops in so you can't feel a thing. You are swung around to under the laser machine and you have to look up at a red dot above you whilst the surgeon firstly clamps your eye, gently pushes the top layer of your eye (you can't feel a thing) then they count down whilst the lasering is being done, mine only took 20 seconds, they then push back the top layer and insert a clear contact lens then cover up that eye and do the same with your other eye. The whole procedure from first lying down to getting up was 15 minutes. I could see a difference straight away although blurry. A nurse comes in and goes through all the medication with you. Make sure you have someone with you as I didn't take all the information in at first as I was so excited after having the procedure. You are given a leaflet which tells you what to do.The medicine that I was given was antibiotic drops for 1 week followed by anti-inflammatory drops for 4 weeks and also some lubricating drops to be used as and when needed. After a short while I was expecting the itchy, gritty feeling to start that everyone mentions, 24 hours later I was still waiting. As most women know, there is always house work to be done so, I thought, I may as well do it as I was feeling o.k. BAD MISTAKE. Take my advice and rest, rest, rest as 27 hours later the gritty feeling started. It may not have if I hadn't done the dusting. The feeling wasn't painful but really uncomfortable and I didn't sleep much that night. However, by the next day, I did rest and made an icepack up which I placed over my eyes whilst listening to the telly. This really helped and by that evening I was o.k. So in short, the uncomfortable feeling only lasted for 17 hours. I had the surgery over 2 weeks ago and I havn't had to use the lubricating drops hardly at all. My experience of the surgery is excellent and as you will probably read in other statements, I wish I had had it done earlier. The cost of my op was £1290.00 for both eyes which is a lot cheaper than other companies and seeing as the service was excellent I don't see why other companies should charge so much. If you are in doubt about the procedure there is nothing to worry about. Every operation has a chance of failure but if the ask the surgeon there is about a 0.07 chance of it not working. So this is just as good as 100% success. Go on, do it, it will change your life.