Accuvision Eye Surgery

[Polarbert]

Getting my eyes done by Accuvision in Solihull tomorrow. I'm having Accuwave LASEK. Can't flipping wait.

Originally saw the massive thread by Rico and have spoken to 968 and rico about the whole thing.

My sight isn't tremendously bad, but its enough to irriate me. I can't identify peoples faces if they are more than 20-30 feet away which is crap I think.


I just want to get the recovery phase out of the way so I can start enjoying perfect vision. Unless something goes horribly wrong and I need a stick to walk around with.

Anyone else had or having it done recently? My Dads mate had it done at a high street place, can't remember the name, and hes needed quite a few trips back to correct somethings. Methinks you get what you pay for.

Edited by Polarbert on Thursday 19th March 22:31

[Polarbert]

snotrag said:

Whats your current prescription? Plus or minus?

+2 I think thats it. I'm short sighted anyway.

[Polarbert]

I'm just on the way there now. I too was wondering about keeping still but it will be revealed to me in 20 mins or so.

The fella who did the tests said that I was a perfect candidate for the surgery.

[Polarbert]

just had it done. I'm getting used to the pain. Vision is varying focus loads. Just trying to keep my eyes shut.

[Polarbert]

Okay, I was a bit daft and I wrote down the wrong treatment. It was actually LASEK that I had done.


Pain has dropped massively, before it was quite intense. Vision is still quite blury, I'm just happy that the pain has gone mostly.

Very weird experience on the whole so far. Roll on a few days time.

[Polarbert]

Short sighted.

The pain was quite severe around 2 hours after having it done. Now the pain has gone but my vision is still very blury and it feels as though theres loads of sleep stuck in my eyes, which I'm not going to rub I was advised against it.

I'll write down what actually happened during the procedure tomorrow, hoping that I will actually be able to focus on the words I am writing, which at the minute I can't do!

[Polarbert]

Sounds similar to my sort of sight.

Pain has completely gone now, just left with an irritation as if theres loads of sleep in my eyes, and still quite blurred vision.

Been having eye drops every hour, and got a check-up appointment tomorrow.

[Polarbert]

had my checkup today and the chappie said everything is going to plan.
I'm having the bandage lens' out on Tuesday morning.
Can already notice an improvement in some respectr. Can see detail a lot further away now. Reading text is getting better as well.
Feel as though I have something stuck in my eye but was assurred theres nothing in there.

Thanks for all the nice words. NDA you bd! Spent a few seconds trying to figure out what you wrote! Lol

[Polarbert]

Herman Toothrot said:

Good stuff Polerbert!

How come you went for lasek, having the cells erroded with ethanol and the associated lenghty recovery sounded much worse than having Lasik. Do you do lots of sport with risk of impact to the eye, that seemed to be the main reason for Lasek when I was reading up.

Got to say i'm highly impressed with my lasik intralase & wavefront, zero pain at all and perfect vision with 18 hours I find it amazing how fast recovery was, I don't feel like i've had my eyes touched and even more amazing my sight should continue to improve over the next few days.

I suppose I choose lasek just because of the fact that the risk of anything happening to my eye is reduced. I don't do contact sports at the moment but I might want to in a few years time.