Great Laser Eye Surgery Hunt

wolfy33

My wife had hear eyes done by a London clinic they are not cheap but very good. If you say you are a friend of Sophie Pearson and you will get £400 or £500 off we were told. I have to admit I wanted her to go to a cheap place but a am glade she went their in the end the service is second to non and they can fix all problems. The doctor that does the surgery help invent the new laser he uses.

RACHIE77

Just thought I would add an update...

I had surgery in August with Optimax in Southampton and am so pleased that I now have 20/20 vision! I was blind as a bat before but it has changed my life so much now that I can see without glasses or contacts!!

I have worn spec's since I was 14 and now feel so much more confident without them!

I recommend Optimax and the price was fantastic too! (half price if you work for the NHS or check out the ebay deals as previously mentioned!)

Rachie x

Moviestar

georgep wrote:

Then you have a choice of two places in the UK:-
Centre for Sight, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead
Moorfields Eye Hospital

Centre for Sight is currently the only clinic in the UK to offer laser flap cutting (rather than using a conventional blade)

Very interesyed in your comments.
I take it from your comments that you hade your eyes treated at the 'Centre for Sight'?
Don't think it said in your previous post

georgep_3

Moviestar wrote:

Very interesyed in your comments.
I take it from your comments that you hade your eyes treated at the 'Centre for Sight'?
Don't think it said in your previous post

Yes, a couple of months ago. Very pleased with the honest appraisal, the depth of consultation and the results so far.

I'd been looking at having it done for quite some time, but the risks were not acceptable to me until very recently.

I object very strongly to the implicit idea of this thread that, where your sight is concerned, the only measure is cost, not quality of work, experience etc. If you want to know what can go wrong look at
http://www.lasikdisaster.com/ or http://www.lasiksos.com/ or http://www.surgicaleyes.org/ or
http://www.lasiksucks4u.com/ or http://www.lasikinfocenter.net/

Then decide whether you want to take the risk in the first place. Whether a High St Chain, with it's requirement for high throughput can offer sufficient backup if things go wrong, let alone the experience to decide whether to take a case on or not.

the_devil_made_me_do_it

anyone had any other sight corrective surgery other than laser?? I have vision higher than what they can correct with laser surgery, and want know if anyone has opted for other surgery.

Indi

Hello,
Quite pleasing to see so many people have had quite good experience... with Lasik.However my prescription(-17.5 & 2.5 astigmatism) is far to high for any form of laser surgery and the only route is Lens implantology.
Would really appreciate any views from people who have very high prescription and have had any form of corrective surgery.
Thanks and Grrrreeeeaaaatttt Xmas to all!!!!! :xmastree: :xmassmile

smiths84

Sometimes it really isn't the cost that matters! I had laser eye surgery at the Optimax clinic in Bristol . I can not fault their service medically and I do not know whether the price I paid was a bargain or not. However I opted - mainly on cost considerations - for the cheaper of the two types of laser surgery offered to me. It was half the price and the op itself was painless (thanks to anaesthetic) but the recovery period was unbelievably painful! I'm not a wimpy person - I've given birth twice with barely so much as a whimper - but this really, really hurt for several days. At one point I could cheerfully have prized my eyeballs out with a corkscrew if I thought it would have made the pain go away. Afterwards I checked with several people who had the more expensive procedure, and not a single one had experienced any significant pain. Believe me - it would have been worth paying extra. As to the results - well I certainly do not have perfect vision now and my night vision isn't good enough for driving so I need to wear glasses. All this I was warned about in advance. So in summary - don't necessarily look for the cheapest service, go for the one where you have complete confidence in the doctor doing your op. And LISTEN when the doctor tells you it will hurt afterwards and you might still need glasses!
ps Just read the other postings and the op I had was the "scraping" one; the more expensive was the "flap" one. Wish I'd had the flap!

Moviestar

georgep wrote:

Yes, a couple of months ago. Very pleased with the honest appraisal, the depth of consultation and the results so far.

I'd been looking at having it done for quite some time, but the risks were not acceptable to me until very recently.

I object very strongly to the implicit idea of this thread that, where your sight is concerned, the only measure is cost, not quality of work, experience etc. If you want to know what can go wrong look at
http://www.lasikdisaster.com/ or http://www.lasiksos.com/ or http://www.surgicaleyes.org/ or
http://www.lasiksucks4u.com/ or http://www.lasikinfocenter.net/

Then decide whether you want to take the risk in the first place. Whether a High St Chain, with it's requirement for high throughput can offer sufficient backup if things go wrong, let alone the experience to decide whether to take a case on or not.

Thanks for you reply I am very interested in this and hope to have it done as soon as I pluck up the courage to go ahead.

SallyD

I have found this topic very interesting. Now, some months ago Philip Scholfield, of GMTV was praising vision correction by a lens he wore at night which eleviated the need for him to wear his specs during the day.......has anyone gone down this route?

tomstickland

I read about this in the papers a few weeks back. They form special lenses which press on your eye overnight, so in the morning you have some correction.