I had been suffering with a sore eye, I rang my surgery for an emergency appointment & was refused, was told to go to the pharmacy for advice, I went & was sold Optrex for infected eyes, I used this for 5 days & then had an appointment for something else but mentioned my eye. The doctor without looking at my eye gave me a prescription for Goldeneye. My eye has got worse over the next 10 days & I have been to see my optician today, after putting dye in my eyes, it turns out I have very bad damage to my cornea & very dry eyes. I have been prescribed the drops that are used after eye surgery to try & heal the damage & gel to put in my eyes every night. I have another appointment next week to check how my eye is healing. The optician has warned me that I may not get my sight back to what it was in this eye & I may end up having to have surgery to sort it out. I feel that the advice & treatment my surgery gave me was totally wrong & if I hadn't made the decision to go to the opticians, I could have lost my sight.
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