This is what worries me the most about taking the plunge, not the videos I've seen of it being done, not the potential side effects, just the fact that I could seriously screw my eyes up by rubbing them after the fact.
My doctor said there was a case of a lady who removed her flap when she woke up at night and tried to remove her contacts out of habit :|
Good luck with that. That’s really quite hard to do, ask your surgeon how hard it is to find the original cut when they’re looking for it to do a touch-up.
You don't need to find the flap, finger to the center of the eye sideways will suffice.
But after months, the flap does settle back. So while it never heals the risk of rubbing your eyes dislocating the flap is rare.
Nevertheless, I do worry about this a lot.
Infections and foreign objects, is the usual answer.