dry eyes are perfectly normal symptoms. after doing refractive surgeries (lasik or cataract) do apply the artificial tears (lubricant) to moisturize the flaps and it will also reduce the uneasiness that you might want to rub your eyes or close your eyes tightly that will cause the flap to be off.
Use as often as you can, you can buy these artificial tears in most pharmacies, they are called "refresh plus". Dry eyes might go on to 1 month or even longer.



for any surgeries there are risk. Some doctors will say there is minimum age of 21, or 19, or 23. all depends on what the doctor evalulates on the risk of getting short sighted again. Doctors says no minimum age but with 3 years stabilized (while other doctors say 2 years) is again, risk management. Some doctors want you to do it once and bye-bye-that's-it. Some just want to do Lasik for you and then deal with the aftermath professionally because he knows how to make things right when it goes wrong. Vista is having (or they already had but no more) a special package where it includes the main lasik and then an enhance lasik "for free[usually one enhance charged RM800]" (when sight changes due to any factor). It's a good package when it comes to money matter. But I doubt they filter and choose the best candidates or they just want you to do lasik.

Intralase or blade, both used for microkeratome (to do incision on your cornea to create a flap). one side says intralase is safer, less mistakes or less pain, less uncomfortable. blade side says it's cheaper, it's faster and it does a good job as well. Well, it's already a fact that intralase takes much longer time than blade, some might not be comfortable with the most frightening process. Blade on the other hand is much faster, like seconds. cases of intralase better than blade? there is no significant prove because if one is much better why wouldn't everyone use that? Doctors update the machine but not the microkeratome. This alone tells there are doctors have high confident with their microkeratome techniques in intralase or blade. So far in Malaysia there is none with complications caused by microkeratome techniques, in fact nobody has gone blind in Malaysia because of Lasik.

P/S: I've not done Lasik yet, planning to but not anytime soon. But I've worked in a Lasik centre for 3 months to get these knowledge.

i've done mine while i was 23 years old. cost about 2.8k in puchong. possibility to get blind is quite low, no worries