Nice to see football professionals posting on here. Tell me Mr Taylor which game are you refereeing this weekend?I was told by my optician that once you reach -2.5 technically you are blind without any correction help
I'm -5.5 in one eye and -3.5 in the eye where I've had surgery
Honestly mate, if you have perfectly good vision with the help of contact lenses or specs, don't fuck about with it
My wife is a Opthalmic nurse, she has the opthalmic nursing diploma as well as being a registered nurse, she worked at the Queensland eye Hospital for 17 years, a private hospital employing about 10 Opthalmic surgeons.It is true that about the Drs wearing glasses, it's something that needs a lot of research before you do it,it depends on age as i found my long sight has changed itself now,worth asking your optician about it first as well as the clincs make it sound like there is no probs,the other thing they told me was i would suffer with glare and would find driving in the dark a problem,my mum is pleased with her vision but sufers badly with dry eyes and has to use eye drops everyday
My wife is a Opthalmic nurse, she has the opthalmic nursing diploma as well as being a registered nurse, she worked at the Queensland eye Hospital for 17 years, a private hospital employing about 10 Opthalmic surgeons.
They won't do laser surgery.
Most of them are older and wear glasses.
I asked one of them, who is a particularly excellent opthalmic surgeon why they don't do laser and what he thought of it.
He spoke about the long term effects being largely unknown and you could be looking at further surgery as your eyes change.
He said it is up to the individual to assess the risks but they choose as a company policy not to do it.
My missus wears reading glasses also.
Yes you can, and from what he was saying you may need to as your eyes change further with time.I'm led to believe that once you've had laser surgery , you can't have much done with your eyes afterwards ... it's something to do with the depth, or the type of incision, that they have to make into your ietes n order to to correct your vision , or something like that ........ apparently if you have an eye operation, or a correction, in a hospital they do things a bit differently, they don't cut quite as deeply, and you CAN have further work done if need be.
Yes you can, and from what he was saying you may need to as your eyes change further with time.
There is a lot about the physiology of eyes though that was mere mortals don't understand.
Be very careful mateBack in the 'noughties' i discovered i was longsighted , whilst i was living in Longsight !
So I attempted to have laser eye surgery in 2008 , and nervously off i trotted to the consultants clinic in town .... but after being examined by the Optical Express consultant he informed me that one in five people weren't suitable for it due to the 'curvititure' of their eye balls being 'too steep' , whatever that means .... and alas, i unfortunately fell into that bracket !!
Anywhoo he then throws a brochure at me , and points me in the direction of 'Lens Exchange' , a kind of cataract procedure, where they basically replace the natural lenses in your eyes, with new replacement lenses ..... it IS more costly than laser eye surgery , but i opted for it anyway , and so far , 12 years down the line,, it's been alright ... not perfect, but pretty good ..... i haven't walked into any lamposts, or stood in any dogshit of late anyway!
i've now got two separate lenses in .... one for close up vision , and the other does both close up , and long vision .... and they appear to work pretty we together.
Of course my cynical missus reckoned i needed my head testing, that i was a crazy fool for having it done , and suggested that i would have been far better off taking her to Barbados instead !
Maybe i would have been better off ... i could have left her there!
They performed the procedures on two seperate weeks at the Bridgewater Hospital, next to Asda, in Moss Side .... they dope you up bigtime, stick needles into your eyes, sure ... but you do get tea and toast after it's all over!
My sister-in-law had laser eye surgery though back in 2007 , after living with really poor eyesight for decades , and she swears it's changed her life.
Good luck. Would be good to hear how it went in a fortnights time.Getting it done in 2 weeks time. Will be out of work for a week afterwards. I'm sorta sleepwalking into it, as I am with everything else in life these days. Hope I heal OK afterwards. No time for the drama if not.