The effect of reshaping your cornea with LASIK is permanent. Nonetheless, it is possible that your eyes may change as you age. Most people over the age of 40 begin to suffer from presbyopia, which is a difficulty with seeing near objects. Presbyopia is caused by a progressive loss of elasticity in the natural lens inside of your eye. Laser eye surgery will not prevent presbyopia, nor will it worsen presbyopia. Patients in this age group may need to start wearing reading glasses to see things at a near distance. Nonetheless, we now have an eye drop called Vuity that can help with this problem. We also have surgical methods of correcting this presbyopia, even if you had LASIK in the past.