Laser surgery for very high prescription?

Testament1

Just wondering if anyone here had experience with getting laser done with a high prescription? Im 29 and have very poor vision, -6.50 left eye and -9.00 right eye. Can see perfectly fine with glasses and contacts but blind as hell without them!

I would really like to get laser done as I've worn glasses since I was about 6 and contacts since I was 18 and it's a bloody expensive when you think about it. I yearn to wake up and be able to see first thing in the morning without having to use glasses or lenses!

So has anyone here been in a similar situation to mine and if so where would you recommend to look into for surgery? I'm based in Clare but as the prescription is so strong I don't mind travelling a bit to make sure that someone competent does the surgery. I'm also aware that I'll most likely need glasses again in 10 to 20 years if all went well but I could live with that if I got a decade or more out of the surgery

Kablamo!

Sent you a pm about my experience with Optilase there.

what2do

I had it done at -6 and -6.5 in the mater private approx 10yrs ago. In. Last two yrs they've started to disimprove slightly but no need for glasses....... seemingly it's age related 😉

Very glad I did it...... can still remember how weird it was to wake up and be able to see... plus when I'd read in bed I'd hold a book about 2 inches away- after the op I had moments of panic when I couldn't read( but that just cos it was too close!!!!)

what2do

I had it done at -6 and -6.5 in the mater private approx 10yrs ago. In. Last two yrs they've started to disimprove slightly but no need for glasses....... seemingly it's age related 😉

Very glad I did it...... can still remember how weird it was to wake up and be able to see... plus when I'd read in bed I'd hold a book about 2 inches away- after the op I had moments of panic when I couldn't read( but that just cos it was too close!!!!)

amtc

I had mine done at -7.5. The thing I never realised was there's an age limit and I was just on it. It is so amazing that something I did for 30 plus years is now a distant memory.

The only thing is I suddenly developed very bad hay fever. I presume glasses and contacts sheltered my eyes.

I got mine done in Optilase five years ago.

I know someone who got it done at -9, apparently -10 is the limit, or at least was at the time.

amtc

Actually it's funny it never bothered me when I was small or even in work wearing lenses. What got me thinking was when I got an eye infection and had to wear my glasses. The job I had was in a building with piles of stairs and I was terrified of falling.

It's not a bit painful. I had my Mam with me but actually I could've driven home. The funny bit was when the surgeon went flying on the stairs going down to the operating theatre. And you're all lined up like an assembly line.