To give a quick answer to your question – Yes, you may definitely still consider LASIK despite your dry eyes.
My advice would be the following:
1. Address your pre-existing dry eyes until you have reached a stage of minimal to no symptoms.
2. Recognise that any one of these refractive procedures may exacerbate your dry eye symptoms, hopefully temporarily.
3. After your chosen refractive surgery, treat your dry eyes aggressively immediately after the procedure to prevent symptoms from appearing. Don’t wait for symptoms to appear before starting to treat them!
4. Be compliant to your treatment, ie. use your eyedrops frequently and regularly, even if you don’t feel you need them.
Recently, I listed a few methods to treat dry eyes effectively. You may want to try out some of these methods before and after your refractive procedure.
To conclude, dry eyes (especially if mild) can be treated and managed properly, hence it is definitely not an exclusion criteria for refractive procedures like LASIK.
I hope that was helpful to you.
