I had my eyes corrected just over 3 years ago, having been rejected by other clinics due to my cornea being too irregular. It has been absolutely brilliant to live life and do sports without glasses or contact lenses.

Due to my age I had monovision done, which turned out to be a really important choice. So from the beginning I wore glasses at work to provide the best 2 eye corrected vision. Yet at the weekend or on holiday never needed glasses for anything.

A friend and his father have had Lasik on my recommendation and my sister is in the pipeline.
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Thank you Accuvision for potentially saving my life and vision...

On a different topic I had an eye infection recently which I went to see Accuvision about for advice on 4th Nov 2008. This had no relation to the past surgery.

Vikash empatically stated that I had Orbital Cellulitis and that I should go to an eye A & E and be treated with intravenous antibiotics.

By this time I had already gone to one hospital. It took visits to 4 different hospitals to get correct treatment. Two different Moorfields Eye Units disagreed with the referral letter that Vikash had written for them and said I just had conjunctivitis / viral infection.

Without Vikash's diagnosis, I would not have persisted to find people who knew what they were doing with respect to eye infections.

Eventually I did get properly diagnosed and treated, and over 3 days had elapsed before I was connected up to be given IV Augmentin initially, then IV Vancomycine about every 12 hours for 3 days.

Search "Orbital Cellulitis bsac" for a good summary of how serious this was.

This has resulted in a formal complaint to both Moorfields Eye Units who really should have better procedures for dealing with this emergency condition.