For my second operation the surgeon basically suggested using some drug ending in -pam (perhaps it was Valium) and they wouldn't provide it over the counter so I had to get a proper prescription, which somehow pissed the surgeon off. At the end of the day, yes, a dentist is worse but the phobia of someone tinkering with your eye remains.

I wanted something simple and didn't want to mess with multifocal lens inside my eye, so opted for monofocal and high myopia correction like around -12 diopters, so after a couple of weeks my far vision felt like I was Superman and my near vision remains poor with zero accommodation.

5 years down the line, it seems the myopia is keeping its course and I need some small correction for far, middle, and reading distances so my drawers are a mess of glasses.

But I keep being grateful for this, I can walk the streets without anything in my eyes and this is something I don't have any memories I can recall. So it's a wonder.

I would gladly go again for that surgery even through the discomfort!