Ultralase

I had my treatment done at Hammersmith nearly five weeks ago. I can endorse everyone’s comments about the professional treatment before and post-op. The only thing that took me by surprise was the amount of pain I suffered for about six hours afterwards – really nasty. I wonder now if I was reacting badly to the drops – I now use (infrequently) the Refresh drops which have no preservative. My vision is much better in the morning – by evening I notice the difference in my eyes becomes more marked and driving at might is not brilliant. I’m using reading specs, but that’s because I’m old (50) and needed them with my contacts before the op.
All in all I’m glad I had the procedure done, but I wish my left eye could have been improved to the same degree as my right. Am having my second check up in Guildford day after tomorrow, and might be told more about the imbalance in my sight then.
I’d be pleased to talk to anyone considering going ahead . . .

I had my LASIK done at Chester 4 days ago. Forty minutes after the exam I was 20/20 in one eye, and within a couple of hours I was seeing as well with both eyes as I ever did with glasses or contact lenses. I was mildly myopic before (-2.25, -3, a bit of astigmatism) but I didn’t expect such a fast result. All the staff have been fantastic all the time.

Treatment 29/4/02 by Paul Cherry,Bristol. prescription prior to treatment R -5, L -4.75.

After watching this web-site for 8 months, I became extremely optimistic about the results LASIK surgery could offer. Due to my panicky, pessimistic nature I had tried to read and find out about everything that could possibly go wrong and there is no denying it there are quite a few things. Why Ultralase -I chose Ultralase because they had good feedback and years of experience, and ultimately because having informed my brother of my findings he had been to Bristol, found he was suitable and had the surgery the following week – I was gob smacked, he was amazed – with his results.
So off we sped to Bristol, 1 hour and 5 or 6 tests later it was established that I too was a suitable candidate for treatment. I would not say I was excited, rather even more nervous, I had now to decide if I wanted to go ahead. One question I did ask was whether I was border line on any of the tests as this would have been an important factor to me. I booked myself for surgery on 29th April which was approx. 3 weeks away – enough time to mull it over, plus, the fact I wanted Paul Cherry who was not available until then.
The day of surgery – yep, I felt like backing out. I studied my children trying to imprint their faces into my hysterical mind. I prayed all the way to Bristol (2-3hours)I’ll be a better person etc etc but please don’t let anything major go wrong. I had definitely read too much.
Having had Mr Cherry retest certain aspects of my sight, nice bloke but by this time I was so panicky and felt so ill that I really could not concentrate on what he wanted and felt he was a little exasperated but said his conclusions were indicating the same way as the optometrist and was happy to go ahead. I think if I had been given the consent form prior to any of this I would probably have backed out, that form is scary reading, you just have to tell yourself they need to cover themselves and try not to read too in-depth. I was not asked if I would like a sedative I think on reflection I should have had one. Blindly led (as I had no glasses on) to the surgery table, I was spoken to
step by step as to what was happening to me. I think the worse part was the smell of the laser on the eye, perhaps you should be offered something to rub under your nose I’ll suggest it on my next check up. Also don’t swallow whilst the laser is working. 15 mins later all done, blurry milky vision – normal. No pain. Another 15 mins on our way to our hotel. By 10.00pm sitting in a restaurant. Vision was still a bit blurry. Dreadful nightmares that night. Vision next day pretty good could read third line up from bottom of chart. Eyes felt like they had grit in them for about 3/4 days. I couldn’t fault them for aftercare, having made a phone call about one eye being quite red and irritable they were brilliant could not do enough and did not brush the issue off, were happy for me to go in there and then to have it checked. Note eye drops seem to go in easy blue box then pink also they forget to tell you to leave 2/3mins between drops.
2 weeks on and my eyes are better than 20/20 they feel gritty towards the end of the day and I still wonder what the hell have I done, but I am amazed with the results. There are so many things I have wanted to do but felt restricted with glasses.
I would sincerely recommend Ultralase for their professionalism, and genuine interest in you as an individual and of course their results.

It is now over 7 months since I had my laser treatment at Ultralase in Chester. It is the best money I have ever spent. I should have had it done years ago.

Further to my last posting I have just attended my 6th vist to the clinic in less than two weeks.. I certainly can’t complain about the attention and aftercare I am receiveing….Left eye is doing fine but the abrasion on the right is proving a little stubborn in healing… Things are getting better and I have yet another appointment on Saturday to see how things are going… I have decided to publish a diary on the web so that others may benefit from my experience… www.bdprice.alphaphe.com/LASIK.htm