eye surgery

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-Ad- said:
Pretty happy with my 6/4, and really does make a difference, but I'm picky and love being able to see stuff far away.

Will constant use of the air optic monthlys cause any lasting damage over a number of years ?
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I don't think theres much in the way of lasting damage it could do directly. Your eye can have its shape changed quite a bit but stopping wearing them and they tend to go back. You can even wear hard lenses at night to specifically change the shape so you have basically perfect vision all day long and sometimes 2 days, then they slowly return to normal. I would consider that but I think they end up costing around the £40 a month region anyway so not exactly cheap though you only wear them when asleep.

I personally don't seem to get on with those newer silicon hydrogel lenses at all, air optics I just had a trial and I HATE them with avengance, seeing as I also didn't get on with purevisions made of the hydrogels and I'm perfect with focus dailies I assume its the type of lense my eyes don't like.

But infection is a real possibility with lense, a lense gets dry and can stick to part of your eye and scratch it on removal, you have to , unquestionably put your fingers to your eye twice a day and each time there's a slight risk of a nail or debrie scratching the eyelid, the lenses can break/tear in the eye and cause damage. Basically infections can get very bad and can risk long term damage for sure. Its not a huge risk but its certainly there and I guess the longer you wear them the more likely something will happen.


Theres also the possibility that you dont' have 6/4 vision in the first place, in my experience different opticians give me a different perscription, quite different sometimes, I could read the bottom line on the last test but certainly do not have corrected 6/4, if anything i'm not even at 20/20 because I can't even get the right power I need for my left eye. The thing that gets to me is what you can see when they do the adjustable glasses, and the complete and utter guess they make for how much it needs to be reduced for contact lenses, that guess varies a lot. Also one place I went to said the perscription had changed between the eyes so much that they put in weaker lenses than they tested me as needing, they told me this AFTER i had the new glasses which gave me headaches. THey all have their own idea's and methods for how to best procede and what they give you.

While maybe the vision he tested you was 6/4 in the adjustable frames, he might have writen the perscription down as a weaker number, or got the lense adjustment wrong.

Its hard to tell because when you go from semi blind to contacts of any power, everything seems perfect, if you see what I mean. Waking up i can't see anything, if I put a -4 lense in my vision would appear fantastic comparitively, as would a -6 lense ;)
 
kennethsross said:
Only my tuppence worth, and reflects the personal opinion of only one individual. However, that individual is a consultant opthalmic surgeon. In conversation with him a year or two ago, he commented:

" I wear glasses, as do a lot of my colleagues. Let the fact that we don't have our eyes 'done' speak for itself. And don't imagine that it's because we can't afford to"
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To be fair, i've know dozens and dozens of doctors in my life, both having had bad knee's and family friends as my dad works in the NHS, as has my mum and brother and friends. ANyway, almost every single last one of them is a horrible, horrible, horrible.......... patient. Anytime theres something wrong they seem to absolutely hate seeing other doctors which isn't all that surprising.

Remember lots of people don't hate glasses or lenses at all, some people are old enough that at that point it doesn't make sense as they'd still need reading glasses or would do in the next few years which is where it starts to make less economical sense.

You might be surprised how many doctors are extra squimish about the area they specialise in when it comes to their own body. Its one thing poking other peoples eyes but having the people you work with poke your own becomes a completely different matter.
 
Delvis said:
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My eyes starting hurting after I saw that :/
 
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