Sorry to hear about your complication. Have you tried punctual plugs or even cautery?
However, your post does illustrate my point regarding medical anecdotes. An optometrist wouldn't be fully qualified to rule you out as a candidate for lasik. They don't perform the surgery therefore their clinical acumen is not as developed as a high volume refractive surgeon.
Mild dry eye is a relative, not absolute, contraindication to lasik. I would be shocked it your surgeon was being willfully dishonest with you. It's also highly unlikely that your optometrist had previously diagnosed your dry eye using formal Schirmers testing.
Unfortunately, given a big enough sample size, even patients with perfectly normal eyes can develop post-operative lasik complications such as chronic dry eye. You won't find a high volume refractive surgeon who hasn't had these kinds of complications (and if they tell you they haven't, you've found a dishonest surgeon). Although these patients are understandably very unhappy afterwards, it may be a stretch to extrapolate the poor outcome back to surgeon dishonesty.
Such is the nature of surgical complications, and why you'll notice a great deal of ophthalmologists walking around with glasses on themselves.
Again, not trying to come off as an a-hole, just my very long winded 2 cents.
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