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just read some of your stories Be careful as Ross Hall consultants work for Optical Express in Edinburgh clinics at weekends and in Silverburn Clinic. If David Mungall recommended you go to Ross Hall it is because he contacts the surgeons there to get them to say what he wants. If you need some one you can trust go to Professor Daya Center for sight in London. I had to have a corneal transplant after OE left me blind I am also in the process of a court case. Keep up the fight we need to shut them down for good

Hiya,

In my opinion after spending a wapping £600.00 pounds in just under 2 years on eye drops have narrowed it down to three:

1/Thealoz Trehalose 3% 10 ml bottle < Preservative free < Excellent

2/HYLO-CARE EYE DROPS -CORNEA CARE - 10ML (comes in blue, green and red) Excellent and the green are in the middle and cheaper than the blue and red! << Also Excellent

3/Carmeleze 0.5% or Carmellose which is beautiful on the eyes and not too expensive

Do NOT use Clinitas eye gel, actually do not use anything Clinitas - it is an absolute disaster for people suffering from laser eye surgery. Just get Lacri-Lube Eye Ointment Lubricant for night and place just a small amount above the lid on each eye.

Hope this helps, let me know

No I've never used gel before is that the best for night time etc ? Wots the best eye drop you have tried ? Cool I will check that site aswell

That is good to hear check out the following web link for OPTIMAX patients..

optimaxruinedmylife.com/

This web page shows much info there.

As far as drops go you need to find one that suits you. Do you use gel at night?

I've been using artifical tears from boots hypermelose , I got my eyes done with ultra lase in glasgow by a surgeon called Kasim ! Now optitmax as they have been taken over , went back to ultra lase on sevrial occasions to be told it takes time to heal etc usual talk now been back to optimax twice last visit yestearday who say this is the side effects which we're stated in ur consent form and that my visions so good that its causing me to nitice these effects so I'm better to ignore them and focous on my good vision which is reading an eye chart!
I've got intouch recently with sachaa so she is got incontact with optimax to arrange a meeting

I am sorry to hear, what eye drops do you use? What have you done in relation to getting your eyes rechecked or looked at?
Where did you get treatment and by whom?

hi everyone jst a wee question how do ou all cope and stay positive because since having my eyes done 2 and a half years ago had suffering from glare halo's and hazy vision dry eyes all the time im constantly depressed regreting every day ov my life think im gonna end up having a nervous break down

Has anyone been told prior to surgery that DVLA must be informed if they've had eye surgery that has induced changes to their visual quality. If patients aren't told this prior to surgery, then this is another case of a lack of informed consent.

Hi Poppy

It is unbelievable isn't it? What a total shambles this is people's Eye's they cannot should not be making mistakes!!!!!! All the Surgeons who actually perform the Surgery should be Hauled into court and made to stand trial they should also be struck off the money grabbing skumbags!!!

Why should we put up with crap vision and a life of pain and misery while they live the high life thanks to us. GUINEA PIGS THAT'S WHAT WE WERE!!!

I believe these statistics are probably universal across all of OE's surgeons. Mr surgeon Waseem Aziz readily admitted that he had to perform further surgery on 'about 5%' of his patients. This obviously excludes those like me who would not let him near my eyes for a second attempt.
However, when in my local branch I asked the Manager whether she got fed up with all of the complaints over failed surgery? (I had run into 4 people on quite random visits to the branch). She replied that sometimes she did. When asked how many operations failed she told me "about one in ten".
There are thousands of people out there with the same problems as us no doubt.