That’s a myth and completely unrelated.
You need reading glasses because muscles at your eyes lose the ability to pull tight and focus up close. LASIK is a correcting of the lens. Entirely different systems.
If you put off lasik because you thought you would need readers, congrats, you could have been seeing sharp at distance this whole time and will likely still need reading glasses.
It does make me wonder how long it'll take until we've reached the end of things to cure, and what might come after.
Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44938818 - Aug 2025 (132 comments)
I've considered it just based on that basis for the last 10 years but still haven't done it because I don't know a single person who has.
People who got LASIK, but the nerves didn't heal right afterwards. The result is permanent, severe eye pain for the rest of their lives.
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Corneal Electromechanical-Reshaping (EMR) experiments suggest that optical correction of vision may someday be possible by reshaping the cornea via electro-chemistry and a corneal mold, rather than tissue removal. Animal testing shows promise.