“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.
They gave me one of those too - tetracaine. I never used it until a girl on a trip I was on got some ashes in her eyes from a campfire; she was in agony and I had the drops along. They helped her out a ton until we could get the stuff out of her eyes.