Lens replacement surgery

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Has anyone had it with optical express? Specifically lens replacement, NOT laser eye surgery. Was it successful? Were they good? Or If you had it elsewhere, where did you go and would you recommend? If you suffered dry eyes before it, how much worse did it make them? I went for a consultation recently & they said I was suitable but it's VERY expensive & I would still need reading glasses so I'm undecided. I have quite severe dry eyes already so if it's going to make them significantly worse I'd rather keep my glasses! Tia.

Lens replacement surgery is just cataract surgery done before you have cataracts. So lots have had it done successfully.

(There are variations where they piggyback a fake lens on top of your natural lens as well, but these shouldn’t be called LRS.)

I had it done at the eye correction centre with Say Aun Quah, I had -9 prescription and contact lense intolerance with severely dry eyes, so glad I did it

Thanks! So you're similar to me then. I'm -10 with astigmatism in both eyes, severe dryness. Did it make your eyes dryer? And do you still wear reading glasses?

Sorry read your post half asleep and realised you are looking at lense replacement, I had ICL - Permanent lenses, I imagine they would be reasonably similar though

I also have astigmatism, my dry eyes were so bad before I was struggling to open them in the night and when I woke, was sleeping with a heated eye pad on and using ointment and drops constantly, when I first went to see him it was for the dry eyes and I had punctal plugs implanted and he gave me steroid drops to get me through summer so I could at least manage a couple of hours in lenses when I was on holiday, for a couple of years prior I had been back and forwards to my opticians as was really struggling with my lenses and they could never decide if it was the dry eyes, an allergy or an infection so went through so many types of lenses and solution but nothing was helping and glasses were like jam jars as you can imagine

The surgery itself was fine I had it in Sept 2022 and they did the eyes a few days apart, the days between weren't great as was really disoriented and wearing a guard one eye and a patch on the other so struggled doing anything, I would say the downside now is I struggle driving in the dark due to halos and starburst which he warned me about, I got glasses about 6 months after it as felt one eye wasn't quite as good as the other, I always had a more complex left eye and the vision in that one isn't quite as good, my glasses have a slight prescription in that eye but nothing in the other, it's +1 the left eye now

Sorry if typos on my phone!

Thanks so much, that's really helpful!