Everyone I've talked to who has had it done that way had a harder recovery than I did; much more pain and burning. I tell people I recommend using a blade, as long as it's the Zero Compression Keratome from Bausch & Lomb. It's a little creepy, but I'll take that if it makes the recovery easy.
“Everyone I’ve talked to who has had it done that way had a harder recovery than I did; much more pain and burning.”
I wasn’t too keen on the idea of that “flap” thing, blade or laser. Maybe I was luckier than I thought having to do PRK. The recovery from PRK took a week but they gave me a little vial of painkiller drops for “emergencies.” I had to use one drop in one eye once.