Can You Schedule a Lasik Consult and then the Procedure the Following Day?

There are some surgeons who perform surgery on the same day as the screening.  Assuming that the eye is healthy, the patient is a good candidate, and the health or refractive status of the eye will not change over the next fews days or weeks, there is no reason to believe that a delay is necessary for medical reasons.  Patients must be aware that they may not be a good candidate so they can't assume that the screening will conclude that they can have the procedure.  Contact lens wearers may require time out of there contacts.  Patients with blepharitis or other eye condition may need to be treated before surgery.  It is also wise to allow patients time to consider their decision to have LASIK surgery.  No patient should be rushed into have a surgical procedure.  LASIK has a strong record of success but can still have complications. 

You need to take your contacts out for at least a week and ideally two before you go in. They need to do an Orbscan to rule out warpage. Then you need to get dilated and reversed. Then if all tests are normal you can have surgery the next day. You should stop caffeine and alcohol and mascara three days before and start to drink a lot of water. I'd do all these things if I were you. And I had LASIK myself over a decade ago!