Laser Eye Treatment

remmy700

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I wear glasses for distance only (mostly driving). I find them a royal pain in the A***E when out stalking, or any kind of shooting.

I am considering Laser Eye Treatment in order to ditch my glasses. I have heard nothing but good reports from people I know but none of them shoot. One reported that their eyes tend to water more than prior to the OP???

I would like to hear from any members who have had or are considering corrective eye surgery and how it has affected their shooting ....!

The cost of this type of remedial work is fairly reasonable if you offset the price of buyiing decent glasses.

Thanks in advance

Remmy
 
Hi,

Was the same as you short sighted and wore glassses for shooting, hated them on wet walked up days they steamed up, wildfowling could not wear face mask same reason, also I windsurf and its a right pain trying to see where you launched from when out to sea. So I bit the bullet 2 months ago and got both my eyes done, I now have 20 20 vision for distance, dont need to wear glasses for distance, great when using my bins, scope etc., Only down side is I now have to wear specs to read and work at the computer, not tied a fly yet but will need specs for that as stuff close up is a wee bit blurred. Up side is I can get specs for a pound a pair! So now have pairs in the car, garage and evey room in the house!

Not cheap but as you say no more contacts, or prescript specs and the other joy is I can now wear polarised sun glasses for fishing and driving. Operation is easy, get it done late afternoon, that way you can go home, go to bed and next morning you don't need to wear glasses to drive.

YIS

Bod
 
had it done a bit over a year ago, its been a success, I am able to use scopes, binos etc without any trouble, and after the first few days the aching went away. to be honest ,besides the waiting, the worse bit was the drops they put in your eyes to get the pupils to expand! God! but that was uncomfortable ! especially being driven home into a low sun! but that aside it was very easy and money well spent.
 
Man up and prove you are a Scot.. i used the angle grinder on mine now i can see the sun and that is millions of miles away!!
 
I had it done about nine years ago, so things might have changed alot since then.

After a lot of research, both at the various providers and on the net (I also spoke to my GP about it) I initially had the LASIK treatment which didn't go according to plan. To the credit of the company I had gone with, I was referred to Moorfields Eye Hospital. The Surgeon there was top notch, and recommended LASEK rather than LASIK, and after two two follow up treatments, sorted things out (although I still get 'starring' of oncoming car headlights when driving at night).

The difference between LASIK and LASEK treatments (and trying not to get too gory) is as follows:-

With LASIK, they cut a flap on your eye, lift it up, carry out the laser treatment, replace the flap and bob's your father's brother.

With LASEK, they actually dissolve the surface of your eye away, carry out the treatment and the eye surface has to regrow, which takes a minimum of two weeks (and if you do anything but office work, they'll tell you to take two weeks off).

Although with both treatments, the risks are very small, LASEK is by far the safest and most successful (according to the surgeon at Moorfields) and is the treatment type carried out on both fighter pilots and professional footballers. With both types, I believe that wavefront analysis is now pretty much standard.

As I said, this may be all a bit out of date, but nine years on, I'm still glad I had it done and haven't worn glasses since (although at my age, I'm going to need some soon for reading). Using rifle scopes is not a problem, although I've not used one with an illuminated recticle.
 
Had mine done over 5 years ago.Being long sighted it took a bit longer than usual to recover but well worth it.No problems at all can read any print there is and can tie flies.Saved what it cost several times over just in glasses
 
Any of you guys in your 50's?

I am thinking about it for curing short-sightedness, but will probably still have to wear specs to read etc.
 
I had mine done a few years and haven't looked (haha) back. Process was quick and painless and had better than 20/20 vision afterwards
 
My wife had this done and she highly recommends it, she was in bed for the remainder of the day after the op, but was back to normal the day after..
 
Any of you guys in your 50's?

I am thinking about it for curing short-sightedness, but will probably still have to wear specs to read etc.

Had mine done 2 years ago at age 62 to correct lifelong short sightedness, it is nothing shy of miraculous, having had specs, hard and soft and day wear lenses over the years.

I use specs for reading and close up work, but even that may not be necessary these days, as I believe you can have your master eye treated to correct the short sight, and the other eye treated to correct for close up work, apparently it takes the brain about 2 weeks to sort it self onto full automatic, now that has to be the best ever!

And yes, my stalking is much more enjoyable as I have full peripheral vision, and pick up movement much more easily and don't have to keep swivelling my head to line up the bifocals :D Shooting is much improved also, as there are no reflections from the specs in the scope picture.

Expensive, YES, Worth it .... YESSSSSSSS.
 
Best stick on Watchdog just now mate!!
yeah saw that, can't believe that people are so naive that they really think they are going to get the "prices from" deal :) mine cost a lot more, and I knew that going in, as I had done my research :cool:
 
Dear All,

I am 50+, very short sighted and currently -6 diopters and have just spent £200 on my first pair of varifocals. So very interested in having laser treatment.

Please could you all expand on likely realistic costs and which place to have it done. Vision express offer the service in Bristol, using the eye hospital surgeons, also what are BUPA/Spire like.

I asked my opticians(Specsavers) last month about laser and they were quite negative, and said I would need to have a stable prescription, mine is increasing at about .3 diopters per year.They did suggest an lens implant would be an option?

All advice gratefully received, PM's welcome if you wish to keep the costs confidential.

Regards

D
 
If its any help.... I had mine done at Ultralase in Guildford, they have clinics in many places. I would strongly suggest that you go to Specialist for an informed opinion, and the cost .... that will be treatment dependent, but as mentioned above do not imagine that you will 'get away' with one of the el cheapo deals , thats just salesmanship IMHO, mine were £3K + ... and worth every last penny. Laser Eye Surgery | Laser Eye Treatment | Lasik Surgery | Vision Correction - Ultralase UK
 
If its any help.... I had mine done at Ultralase in Guildford, they have clinics in many places. I would strongly suggest that you go to Specialist for an informed opinion, and the cost .... that will be treatment dependent, but as mentioned above do not imagine that you will 'get away' with one of the el cheapo deals , thats just salesmanship IMHO, mine were £3K + ... and worth every last penny. Laser Eye Surgery | Laser Eye Treatment | Lasik Surgery | Vision Correction - Ultralase UK

I concur, mine not done yet are in that region.
I am -8 and they told me they could do -12.
Looking really forward to it now (1st june) I am 44 and have worn glasses full time since I was 10.
Opticians were like you said negative, go to the specialists my test was free (optical express).
I justified it to myself as my binos are worth £1,500 and i use them every day for probably 15-20 mins my scope was £2,000 and I use that for minutes a year. So it was an easy decision (for me not the wife) to make.
My other argument is at 44 I am hopefully young enough to get good value out of it.
Good luck. John
 
I had mine done about 7 years ago by Ultralase, it cost about £900 per eye and they have a good reputation.
I would,nt go for the "special offer" deals, use the company with the longest track record.
Worth every penny in my opinion and a decent pair of bi-foculs cost around £300 ish, and you need a spare as well, I just use cheapo ready readers in bad light/night for reading small print.
 
I had it done 2 years ago, aged 47, sorry I didn't have it done years ago. Important to be sure that your prescription for glasses (mine -3.25 both eyes) has stabilised. Otherwise if it continues to disimprove you will end up having to use glassess for long distance stuff again within a few years. Only problem for me was I could see perfectly the following day long distance but couldn't read a bloody thing, and as I had surgery on the Friday had to wait until Monday to get the cheapo reading specs. My suggestion to you John is to buy the readers before June 1st!
 
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