laser eye surgery again!

dollydimples82

Hi.

just wondering if anyone has had laser eye surgery done with a prescription of minus 10.5 and an astigmentation? and if so where did you go and have you had any problems after surgery? thanks;)

Mousewar

That's a high prescription. You'd be at the very limits of Lasik and even then only if your cornea is think enough to accommodate the amount you would have to have removed. Often, people with your prescription are moving into implant territory. You really need to go have a consultation and see. But with your particularities, I'd definitely recommend going to a few places to see if you're getting consistent advice.

dearg lady

I have the same prescription and was deemed unsuitable for laser surgery. I've tried a few places, they mostly do free consultations. as Mousewar said, it depends also on thickness of cornea, so go for a consultation, they'll go through the options with ya.

dollydimples82

thanks for the replies. i had a consultation done about 5 years ago and was told i had a thin cornea, they advised the lens implants but i dont really like that idea! just hoping that some new methods had been found to give me good eye sight!:rolleyes:

dearg lady

ha, I keep hoping for the same! meanwhile my eyesight gets progressively worse, eeek! I got a call recently about a new kind of implantable lens, phakic lenses, so I went for a consultation, but I found the staff pretty clueless which didn't exactly fill me with confidence. Very expensive as well.

Mousewar

dollydimples82 wrote: »

thanks for the replies. i had a consultation done about 5 years ago and was told i had a thin cornea, they advised the lens implants but i dont really like that idea! just hoping that some new methods had been found to give me good eye sight!:rolleyes:

You can probably forget about laser surgery then unfortunately. It's implants or stick with glasses/contacts.

Although having said that, there is a new form of eye surgery that is being performed in Britain and elsewhere called SMILE. It's quite new and isn't in Ireland yet but it seems to be for people with higher prescriptions. Here's an article I read about it a while back.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4382792/Amazing-eye-surgery-caught-on-camera.html

dollydimples82

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wow that would be amazing!!:D its very annoying when your eyes are so bad and yet you are unsuitable for laser surgery:mad:
i would love to wake up in the morning and be able to see properly!:D

FewFew

What about -8 prescription? I was following this thread to see if -10 was a goer. Haven't heard of implants before, but hesitation above suggests a no no.

At the moment my vision is so bad that glasses cost something stupid like €700 to get anything thinner than glass bottle-esque lenses.

Mousewar

You're within the limits Fewcifur so it's theoretically possible but again it will depend on your corneal thickness. If it's not thick enough they'll struggle to remove enough to correct your refractive error and leave enough for the cornea to remain functional. Also, with higher prescriptions like yours it can be harder to get to 20/20.

Again, you need to go to a consultation and, also again, go to more than one of them.

amber2

Was -11 had LASIK done back in 1996 by a Dr Patrick Condon in Waterford never had any problems, was prescription free for years but lately have a prescription of of -1.75 which is a long ways off what I was.

FewFew

amber2 wrote: »

Was -11 had LASIK done back in 1996 by a Dr Patrick Condon in Waterford never had any problems, was prescription free for years but lately have a prescription of of -1.75 which is a long ways off what I was.

Did you have super thick corneas?