rainsmoker, go for it. If you get a TLC doctor to actually do the surgery (and you go for your annual checkup every year), then you have a lifetime warentee. This means that when your eyes do start to go bad (sometime in your 40s or 50s normally), you’ll get a tune up surgery for free.
You shouldn’t really have the surgery until your eyes stop changing (so rapidly). Anytime after 25 should be fine. (dynamic and rainsmoker) You guys both sound like prime candidates assuming your eyes are actually bad enough.
Just so you know, I had a terrible astigmatism and everything went fine. I went from -9 and -11 to about 20/10 (most people think -4 is really bad and I was over twice that) .
I am actually a tiny bit farsighted now (I use reading glasses at the computer) because they have to over-correct a little and have the eye heal back into proper vision. Sometimes they hit it right on the dot. Sometimes they don’t. Even if they could only get my vision 50% better (instead of 97% better), I’d still recommend the surgery. It sucks being blind.
not to mention, I saw (not felt) a naked body for the first time after my surgery
Edit: If you guys have any specific questions about LASIK surgery, I would be glad to answer them. It worked out great for me (about 2ish years ago) and the way it is done today is very different from how it was done 5 years ago. Today the laser reshapes the cornea and (years ago) it use to be a doctor with a hand-held scalpel (eek).