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Hiya, yes, I had it done about 6 years ago and had fantastic results. Wish I'd done it years ago. The change for me was amazing, the op very quick and I had no problems with infections or anthing. I took very good care of my eyes afterwards, time off work for two days to avoid straining my eye using a pc, wearing sunglasses in Feb, but it was worth it. I went with one of the big national chains (can remember which one, tbh) as I thought I wanted someone who does a LOT of these ops all the time.

Best of luck!

DO IT! I had the surgery with Optical express 3 years ago and its incredible.


A few tips


Optical express give away a free surgery every month - all you need to do to be entered is go along and have a free consultation.


Wait it out - I waited around 6 months between consultation and surgery and every few weeks they would send an offer, ?100 off, ?500 off.. then it happened - 'you can have the whole surgery for ?1500 if you have it done by the end of November' . Since I was quoted ?3300 originally this was an opportunity not to be missed.


The surgery itself was the scariest 10 minutes of my life - but that's all it was. 10 minutes and almost immediately I could see better than I had done since I was 7.


I had it done when I was 29. they do need your prescription to be the same for the previous 2/3 years and they do say that your eyesight will deteriorate naturally as you get older.


Good luck

I had mine done at Advanced Vision Care on Harley St. It was expensive, but I figure your eye sight is something where you don't want to go for the budget option - after all, I could see with contacts / glasses and I really didn't want to end up with permanent dry eyes or halo-ing


It was all very quick and painless (though I could smell my eye being cut which is a bit unpleasant!) and within days I'd got the best vision I can remember having - had worn glasses since I was at primary school.


I had a routine check up at a local optician a couple of years later and they told me that the surgeon made a really good job of it - no scarring etc - suggesting that not everyone has as positive experience.

  • 4 weeks later...

Moorfields Eye Hospital used to run research programmes where you can volunteer subject to the condition affecting your eyesight and the trials they are running. I had mine done 11 years ago in a LASEK V LASIK machine trial - they wanted to establish which technique worked best with a laser they were intending to purchase. The preoperative and postoperative care was superb. There is a cost associated, which for me was less than the cost of Harley Street, with the security of knowing I was in one of the world's best eye hospitals.


I have never looked back since, with reading glasses obviously (*groans*)...


Good luck!

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