Usually by the next morning, most experience a noticeable improvement in the way the eye feels and sees. You will be asked to use eyedrops through the initial healing process and to protect the eye from contaminants and eye rubbing for the first 1-2 weeks. Some patients notice some improvement in their vision immediately after the procedure, but most notice that their vision is blurred. For most, the visual recovery is complete by 1-3 months after the procedure. This is legal driving vision and is vision good enough for most sports and most activities.
Young children possess an amazing ability to focus up close.
As we get older, we gradually lose this ability, and by about 40 years of age, many people begin to need reading glasses to see near objects clearly. Many nearsighted individuals have the advantage of being able to take off their glasses to read or see close objects. One way to get around this is to purposely leave one eye a little under-corrected or a little nearsighted. This is called monovision since one eye is focused at distance and the other eye is focused at near. Most active people have difficulty if there is too much of a difference between the two eyes, but a small difference is often very well tolerated.