Smile LASIK review..

During COVID, wearing a mask + glasses was so uncomfortable that I ended up getting Smile LASIK in 2021. I had astigmatism only in my right eye from the start, so both my glasses and contacts only corrected astigmatism in the right eye. My vision was about 0.6 in the left and 0.4 in the right, so I could still manage everyday life at home without glasses, but I decided to get Smile LASIK just because of the moisture fogging up my mask. First, the advantage: you can live without glasses. That is an advantage that can't be compared with anything else. And now for the disadvantages.. Maybe because my eyesight had been good enough for daily life at home, the disadvantages felt bigger. 1. First of all, after LASIK the colors of the world change. It feels like a pale filter has been applied. It is like highlights are always turned on, so even a little brightness feels intensely bright, and the sky that used to be blue looks sky-blue, while sky-blue skies look almost white. 2. Astigmatism is hardly corrected. So even though my left eye is 1.3 and my right eye is 1.5, the blurry right eye due to astigmatism is much harder to see with. I used to like playing golf, but because of astigmatism things aren't crisp, so I can't see my ball well, and the lie looks different depending on my condition. Because I have astigmatism, traffic lights also look blurry. When my physical condition is bad, things can look blurry even without astigmatism, but with astigmatism too, I can't even see a left-turn signal clearly. Everything just looks like the same green color. And.. driving home from work is especially hard because of brake lights. Since all the red lights look blurred, it feels like goblin fire. 3. I developed floaters. They explained that the floaters I had when my vision was bad become more noticeable as eyesight improves, but before surgery I had never felt them at all. My eyes weren't even that bad to begin with.... hmm.. I'm not sure. 4. I also developed night blindness. My hobby used to be driving on highways at dawn on weekends. Now I can't drive well at night, and especially when it rains, I can't drive at all because I can't see the lanes through the flowing rain. I once felt the fear of almost getting into an accident on a rainy night, so even if I have work on a rainy night, I make up an excuse about LASIK and push it to another day. Even if I'm driving in a bright place during the day, once I enter a slightly dark underground parking lot it becomes way too dark. I can feel that my eyes take a long time to adapt. I was originally very sensitive to every sense, including sight, touch, and smell, so I may feel it even more strongly. Anyway, those are the inconveniences I personally felt. It's been 6 years since my LASIK, and my eyesight hasn't dropped much, and I've adapted so it's okay, but if you're very sensitive visually and like driving, I recommend just keeping your glasses on. Not wearing glasses is really convenient, but I used to like glasses too.... If I could go back, I think I would live with glasses and contacts in rotation and not do either Smile LASIK or LASIK at all. But a friend of mine who isn't sensitive visually and whose eyesight was extremely bad, to the point of wearing glasses with heavily compressed lenses, was super satisfied and said Smile LASIK was the surgery of her life. It's different for everyone, so it seems like the decision should depend on what values matter more to you.