Thought I would add an update as I had PRK on my right eye only back in April 2002. However, I'm now back to wearing glasses as the improvement in my vision is very minor- I've gone from -1.5 to -.75 - so legally I can drive without glasses which means it's a 'success' - but I can't read road signs until I've gone past them- can't see the t.v. clearly and stuff like that. The surgery was an absolute doddle - but was has alarmed me has been the after care- they were in capable of getting my prescription correct- I needed to have my glasses amended as I needed them for driving. They came out with some story about how the eye that hadn't been operated on had actually changed it's prescription since the operation- I had my glasses made up with them twice and in the end gave up and went back to my own optician for an eye test - and the result's were very different to what they said I had.

One thing I've noticed with the PRK is that the operated eye is sensitive to pressure- for example when I'm taking my eye make up off I have to be very gentle - and my optician ( not the the Eye Clinic) has said that off course it will be becuase PRK is basically making the surface of your eye thinner. The consequence of this is that standard tests for glaucoma cannot be done on eye's which have had PRK.

Anyway- hope it's not too much of a rant- and maybe I've just been unlucky- it hasn't put me off eye surgery and in a few years time I'm sure I would have my other eye done - just not at the Eye Clinic!