25th January 2003 I was booked into Optimax, Bristol, for consultation and PRK Epiflap treatment - feeling very nervous. My prescription is -2.25(R) and -1.75(L) with astigmatism and I am aged 52, I currently manage with just glasses for short-sightedness. Even at this advanced age I am vain enough to not want to wear glasses but cannot get on with contact lenses! The Dr suggested the best course of treatment would be to treat the right (dominant) eye for short-sightedness and leave the left eye as is, to avoid the need for reading glasses (monovision) and this certainly sounds the best of both worlds! I mentioned that I had tried contact lenses to achieve the same result but without success, as the left eye was continually blurred at the outside. I was advised this was because the brain could not cope/objected to the opposing instructions. The Optimax Dr said this would not necessarily be the case with the PRK Epiflap treatment. I have waded through the 13 pages of patients comments and only come across 2 who have had the Môn vision treatment and then I don't know whether it was because of their age and not wishing to swap their short sighted glasses for reading glasses. I did not feel confident enough to have the treatment and any comments from other patients in this position would be extremely helpful in making my decision. Many thanks if you are able to respond.