Had Epi-Lasik at Liverpool on Saturday 13th August 2005. I'm 25 and my vision was -2.25 and -2.50. This was my second consultation as in April I wasn't suitable due to a viral infection, although I wasn't aware that I had one. Had all my tests done again, blood pressure etc and had my consultation with Dr Madusudhan. He had a look and confirmed what my optician had told me, that my infection had cleared up. It was a fantastic feeling, knowing that in a couple of hours I will have surgery to improve my vision with the hope of not having to wear contact lenses again. I went back into reception, massive smile on my face, told my dad that I was having it done and paid my deposit. Sat waiting for the treatment, was getting quite anxiuos. Wasn't feeling nervous at all it was just the waiting, I just wanted to get in there and get it down. They called me in, and I lay down. The put the white tape over my eye lashes so they didn't get in the way and put some aneastetic eye drops in. The clamp was next to open my eyes, didn't feel a thing as they poured some more drops in and peeled back the epithelium. Such an amazing experience watching them peel it back, quite strange really. Then I looked at the red light as I started to hear the clicking sound followed by the smell of burning. Can't really describe the smell, smells like burning rubber. Next they put the epitelium back over, put on a bandage lens and repeated the procedure with the other eye. I started to shake quite a bit during the second half and went a bit cold. I think my body had gone into shock, but I was okay after a couple of minutes. After that he looked to check that the lenses where fitting correctly, my left was fine but my right wasn't. He removed it and replaced it with another one, which too wasn't fitting properly, so he had to remove that and fit a third lens. This seemed to work fine. I stood up, was asked to read a couple of letters on the wall and walked out. I was given some steroid drops to be taken 3 times a day, antibiotic drops to be taken 4 times a day, refresh eye drops to be taken 12 times a day. They also give me some pain killers and some relaxants to help me sleep. My dad took me home and already I could see the difference, it was amazing. Couldn't feel any pain at all until about 2 hours after surgery. My right eye started to hurt, so I went upstairs and lay down for a bit. Took the painkillers and 2 of the relaxants. Lay there for quite some time and just couldn't sleep. The pain was getting worse at this point. Anyway the relaxants must have kicked in because I remember waking up at 1:15am. I was gutted because my eye was still quite sore and I wanted to sleep right through til morning. I managed to doze back off again and woke at about 4am. Just lay there for a bit with my eyes closed and got up at about 7. I taken some more pain killers and the pain was easing up, at least I could open my eye now. As the day progressed I just forgot about the pain and eventually it had gone. The pain was actually quite mild and even with that pain, if I could go back knowing about it I'd still have it done. My left eye didn't experience any pain at all. I think my right eye probably wouldn't have been that bad if the first bandage lens fitted properly without them having to change it a couple of times. Each day my eye sight just got better and better. I went back on the following Wednesday to have my lenses removed. I already had 20/20 vision in my left eye by this point. My right was still a bit blurred but that was because it was swollen. I was told that this would improve, and it has. I went back on Wednesday 24th for an aftercare appointment and both of them are actually better than 20/20 vision. Although my right one is still slightly blurred, but again this is because of the swelling. I'm very happy with my results and the staff at optimax are brilliant, very friendly, helpful, great bubbly personalities. The surgeons themselves are great. I'd recommend Optimax to anyone.