Where's Good For Multifocal Lens, Liverpool ?
- anon
If onlyAlfar wrote: BTW can you see and read better now without glasses than before the surgery. If you exclude the nuisance of glare and floaters.

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- Alfar
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Would anyone want to wait for the perfect Mobile phone or Computer before buying one. <

Corporate healthcare is ultimately like your supermarkets. They have to drive their prices down and improve their products to survive. I hear Morrisons are now competing with Aldi/Lidl. That has to be good. If there is no competition - old fart surgeons are going to be using outdated equipment and charge top Dollar just because they built up a good reputation when they had more hair on their heads.
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- Mr Starburst
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Similarly I belive IOLs for reading vision have been around for just 15 years or so and the glare and haloes were more sever in the early years, but the newer models give lesser degrees of glare etc, but can there ever be a 'perfect' lens?
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- HazelJ
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I was the same as your sister in law, thought they where great and even tried to convince my brother to go but luckily he went to Sth Africa on holiday instead. My partner also decided to see how I got on, waiting for halos and sore eyes to go, and as they haven't he won't he won't have his done. OE will always tell you that you have 20/20 vision. I went and had my eyes checked with my optom who had tested my eyes 6mths before OE got hold of them and I do not have 20/20 vision and was prescribed glasses for driving, but OE will still say I have 20/20. Wouldn't waste anymore time with them.
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- HazelJ
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Shame they hadn't told me about Floaters, that the Halos are for life, and I won't have 20/20 vision, or I wouldn't have gone.
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- Interested
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- Anonymous
Anyway, and this is something I will obviously always regret, I was a willing volunteer to my first appointment. After this, the rest is as it probably was for everyone else. They confirmed everything the zealous sister in law had said - perfect vision, never to get the cataracts that would most likely be on the way in the next couple of years, a very slight risk of some ghosting - but, very, very slight and easily got used to. As I only had mild eye problems I asked about having laser as it would be less invasive - but was told that they wouldn't do laser for anyone over 50 because of the likely imminent cataracts. I was so stupid: my mother had cataracts starting when she was 80+ - I was 52.
Then I had the exchange, then I got the extreme ghosting, very large halos around objects, blurred contrast in dim light etc etc. For nearly a year I've been told that my eyesight is perfect, that I have 20/20 vision etc. This site has made me realise that I'm not alone (far from it) and that OE's approach:denial - is just that. I guess they think that if they keep telling you that your eyes are OK you will start to doubt your own sanity or something?
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