A Gland On my top eylid has bee swollen for two weeks and if it doesnt go down in a week i will have to gave eye surgery. The doctor will have to pry my eyelid open, cut a small incesion in the inside of my eyelid, and scoop the gland out while i am awake. How bad will this hurt?

I want to have Lasik surgery but am skeptical because I dont know what the consequences may be. But I hate working reading glasses and always looking for where I last put them.

I’m going to be a senior in college and I will be joining the military (most likely Marines) after I graduate next year but I really have no idea what MOS I will be doing. I’ve already had my eye evaluation and I am a candidate for all of these types of surgeries and I am scheduled to have one this coming week. I talked to a recruiter from the Marines and we discussed the process fairly briefly and they accept all of them, but I know that LASIK is an automatic disqualifier for some jobs and definitely special forces so I’m unlikely to do LASIK. For a while I thought LASEK was basically just the new name for PRK but obviously they are different procedures. To me LASEK seems like the better option because of quicker recovery and less dry eye and haze complications. Any advice on PRK or LASEK? Also, does LASEK disqualify you from some jobs like LASIK? I’m going to talk to the recruiter again tomorrow just to run it by them again but just thought I’d ask for some outside advice before I do. Thanks.

What are the long term effects of them? How much would they cost? When can you get it /at what age ?

How long will it be till I have to go back and have it done again? What about contacts?