Its been 8 weeks since I had the op done. I was 7 and 7.25 diopters shortsighted, with a slight astigmatism. I had a consulation at Advance VisionCare after initially trying Boots and Ultralase, neither of whom impressed me very much. Ultralase's wavefront measurement calculated my vision to be a diopter worse than it was, and Boots refused to treat me because my pupils were so wide, and then casually mentioned that they didn't have wavefront at that clinic anyway, I'd have to go all the way out to Bluewater for that.

In contrast, Advance VisionCare seriously impressed me with their pressionalism and dedication to getting absolutely perfect results - if Ultralase got a dodgy result they shrugged their shoulders and carried on, eventually deciding just not to do the Wavefront at all. The people at Advance VisionCare threw out and repeated anything that they weren't happy with until they had a set of perfect results. It was this attention to detail that got me, as well as the amount of stuff they explained, examining the wavefront disagrams, explaining what the thickness of my corneas meant, how much the laser would remove, and how that was affected by my pupil size, and so on.

I had the op. It went well (though my very strong blink reflex made things tricky). Immediately after the op, Dr Pillai tested my eyes, and despite the post-op wateriness and general unclearness, I was already better than driving standard. I tested that less than 48 hours later, with a 6 hour round trip drive to the Welsh border and back. Everything went fine.

Now I'm +.25 and -.25, and very happy indeed. I'm working in front of a high resolution computer screen full time without glasses, and don't expect to need them. The only problems have been the expected side-effects: glare, which hasn't been bad enough to interfere with night drinving since the first week or so, and which appears to be getting better (though so slowly its difficult to judge); and dry eyes, which I have been controlling with drops. The first set of drops worked, but only for an hour or so if I was using computers, so Dr Pillai switched me on to gel based equivalent, which have been much better, and which I really can use just 3-4 times a day (or once a day if I'm not using computers).

What else can I say? I'm very happy I got the surgery, very happy I got it done at Advance VisionCare, and would happily recommend it to anyone.