I’m glad you mentioned lasik surgery, because that’s what I’m leaning toward.
Because I’m such a nice guy, and incredible poster, I’m gonna save you the cost of a LASIK consult...LASIK is an amazing procedure, but it won’t fix your problem.
It boils down to basic optics. In order to see anything clearly, the incoming light has to come to a focal point on the retina. The problem is objects that are closer to us (e.g. at a normal “reading” distance) require a completely different amount of focusing than objects which are at a distance. (Imagine using binoculars to see a squirrel clearly from 50 yards and then trying to use that same focal setting to see deer clearly at 300 yards. Intuitively we know that’s impossible.)
Until about age 40, the eye has a remarkable ability to automatically (and unconsciously) vary its focal power because the lens of the eye (behind the pupil) is flexible and can change its shape — which thereby changes its focusing. Unfortunately, at some point after 40, the lens, EVERY lens, will lose its flexibility and thus its focusing ability. Enter: reading glasses.
Now with LASIK, a surgeon can apply any amount of focusing power that he/she wants to the cornea — but if they focus your eyes to see clearly at a reading distance then things will be completely fuzzy when trying to see things clearly far away, just like what would happen when trying to use a pair of fixed-focus binoculars to see things clearly at any and every distance.
Bottom line: at some point after 40 (or 52, if you’re lucky) when both eyes are seeing clearly in the distance they will automatically be fuzzy at near, and no amount/type of laser correction will fix that.
