Moorfields Eye Hospital: can they/would they help dh who has very seriously short sight and trouble getting glasses?

[MrsHiggsBoson]

Dh hasn't got an eye disease, but is extremely short sighted - and has been since childhood. He is having increasing difficulty finding opticians who can provide glasses that he can see properly with.

Would Moorfields be an appropriate place to go for the kind of really strong glasses he needs? He is, apparently, at high risk of detached retina as well.

Not sure about Moorfields specifically, but my dh (who has Marfan Syndrome - which made his lenses dislocate and put him at risk of retinal detachment) used to get his glasses from the optician that is based at our local hospital. Anyone can use that optician here, even non-patients.

It wouldn't hurt to call your local hospital to see if they can help - the selection of frames here is often better than what is available on the high street.

Thanks, Deepbreath. TBH, Moorfields is probably as convenient as our local hospitals, which IMHO are all a bit ropey.

What he doesn't get from opticians is care in helping him see!

Oh, actually I see that one of our local hospitals acts as a Moorfields site! I'd still like to hear other people's experience of Moorfields, if poss...

My dd's both wear glasses dispensed by Moorfields altho' neither is under consultant care there (are at GOSH). I simply take their prescriptions issued by GOSH there and they make up the glasses.
However if you are saying that your dh is unhappy with his prescription then he really needs to ask to be referred (to a hospital optometrist I think) so that he can get one that works for him.
IME, the opticians dept at Moorfields is simply a dispensing opticians - they don't do any actually measuring of eyesight/making up prescriptions.
I myself have a very high prescription and very high risk of detached retina (as does my dd1) but I wear contact lenses and no problems with my prescription (although I am under care of Moorfields but they won't do my glasses prescription, I have to go to my local optician's for that) - is it that he doesn't think his optician is very good?

Most very short sighted people have a high risk of a retinal detachment. If it were me and he was having problems seeing with his glasses then he just needs to go back to the Optometrist and have another test - they'd be glad to do that if he's having problems. Opthalmologists don't/can't do eye prescriptions.
Incidentally, most very shortsighted people see better with contact lenses than glasses as highly myopic glasses minify things, because contact lenses are on the eye the retinal image is normal. Contact lenses have changed a lot over the last few years, so its worth trying them again.

Thanks, the problem seems to be that they make up the prescription wrong. Then there's toing and froing while they try to get it right. Then the glasses don't fit properly.

Contact lenses have been suggested, so I'm interested in those points. Do you have daily disposables? Interestingly, dd has just started using disposables for sport and they do seem v convenient.