laser eye surgery?

has anyone got any info on it?
have you/someone you know had a procedure -how did it go?
does it really work that well?
any horror stories?

Most countries have an 18 or 21 year-old age minimum for lasik. It’s also strongly recommended that the Rx should have been stable, unchanging, for at least two years prior to surgery, to demonstrate that the shifts commonly associated with growth have finished.
A good surgeon will not recommend you for surgery if you are not a good candidate.

For most, the great majority, it’s very good.
for a few it’s not, and for a very few it’s awful.

“Now I can’t drive at night because it’s so bright it’s like putting your head in a bag of Christmas lights,” says Woodlock, 40, of Huntington Beach, Calif. “I went to another doctor who said my corneas look like shattered windshields. I’ve had four more surgeries in my left eye, but it can’t be fixed. It’s important people know this can happen.”
(one testimony I quickly found on-line.)

To balance that, one study showed that, whether or not people had noticed side-effects, 97% would recommend Lasik to a friend.

I’m well outside the range to make me a good candidate for laser sugery, personally, (high myopia, high astigmatism, large pupils, deep anterior chamber) but I’ve seen many eyes that have had it done, in various forms.
Again, everything from the delighted (most) to the relatively happy but with grumbles, through to a few in tears, literally at how bad their vision was.

Putting “Lasik Problems” into Google will get you a range of opinons on this, not just mine!
Or you may consider the FDA page reasonably reliable. (URL1)
You asked about horror stories: the sites by people who have had disasters are, of course, vehemently against Lasik.
(URL2), for example.

Optometrist, retired.