My husband and I have both had our eyes lasered and our experiences are similar. We are both 51 and were told we would need reading glasses. Although it is only 2 weeks since the surgery - neither of us can work properly - he is in engineering and needs to see small print and I work in an office. We cannot get prescription glasses for a period of 3 months. Our surgeon is not at the clinic any longer and the aftercare is not done by the surgeon. We feel if we saw him he could give us more helpful information i.e. has something gone wrong or is this normal? He was on loan from an office in Croydon (We live in Newcastle). The clinic merely say - it will get better. We asked about our middle vision and were told this would be fine. Maybe this will improve - it is early days - shopping is difficult. All of the brochures say you will be off work a day or so and for us this is not so.