Why does your vision need to stabilize before lasik surgery?

It's because if you get the surgery before your eyes are done changing, they will continue to change after the surgery, and in a year you'll need glasses again. If you're willing to pay for lasik surgery to fix your eyes when they change every year, go ahead.

Also, if your prescription is fluctuating BACK AND FORTH, when it finally stabilizes, it might turn out that they took too much off of your eye. They can never put back what they have taken away, and you could wind up needing glasses and not being able to get more surgery to fix it.

I had LASIK almost 3 weeks ago and my vision is excellent at this point. I could see right away after the surgery. I went home after it and emptied the dishwasher and did some other stuff and then took a nap for an hour and then just relaxed. My biggest thing was for about 3 days after the surgery my up close vision was blurry and a lot of light bothered me. According to my doctor it takes about 3 months for your vision to stabilize, although mine is pretty stable right now. I can see 20/10 at this point, which I was about 20/40 before the surgery. I do everything as normal, but I make sure I wear sunglasses when I go outside if it seems light out so I don't damage my eyes. I luckily had my surgery over Christmas break and went out the day after I had it done. I would definately say that not everyone has the same results, but for about 98% of the people that have it, everything turns out great.

If your vision is unstable, then it will continue to change once you have had the lasik done too. This means that your prescription will come back after the surgery and all the money you spent on lasik was wasted

On a stable prescription lasik completely cures your nearsightedness/farsightedness for many years.

But if lasik is performed on an unstable prescription, then there is a high chance that a year after the surgery you would become nearsighted/farsighted again.

well, if your vision hasn't stabilized, then after you have surgery there is no guarantee that your vision won't degrade still.

it would be a waste of time and money to have lasik when your vision hasn't stabilized as you'd have to have it corrected again.

I'm gonna give you the same answer as those before me, but it proves it's the truth: it's a waste of money and discomfort because at such a young age a person hasn't yet reached a fully grown stage. It means your eyes are also still developing/growing. it means your eyesight can deteriorate or improve on its own, leaving the surgery worthless. I would wait another 5 to 6 years.

Doctors don't recommend surgery for people in their early twenties, and teens. It has to be stable, or else you'll be wasting a surgery and money. I would wait if I were you.

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