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A plus eight prescription is a challenge. If you are not satisfied with glasses or contact lenses, most likely implantable contact lenses are your best surgical alternative. If you are over the age of fifty, you might also consider clear lens extraction.
Hello! My advice is that first make sure you are PLUS 8 and not MINUS 8 as Plus 8 is a very rare prescription. I do not suggest LASIK or any other type of laser vision correction if your prescription is +8. This is because you would have poor quality vision and also because your prescription will almost surely regress if you do. Other options are: 1. Contact lenses: always use perfect hygene when using contact lenses as they are a risk for infection. 2. Glasses 3. Clear lens extraction: which is cataract surgery at an early age. However, I personally do not recommend the last option as much since it has some risks of intraocular procedures. 4. ICL (or implantable contact lens): Unfortunately ICL for treatment of hyperopia is not FDA approved in the USA but it is being used to treat high hyperopia in europe. Hope this helps!
Reading glasses are magnifiers and they will make it easier to see regardless of your prescription. You can certainly use them during the healing process and they will NOT slow down your healing. You have had a large treatment and your vision often will continue to improve for months as the...
Corneal thickness is generally tested using an ultrasound pachymeter. Sixteen years of age is too young for laser surgery but you may be a candidate when you are older. Most surgeons perform LASIK or PRK on patients 22 years and older.
If your prescription is truly a +12.0, then it would be one of the worst cases of farsightedness that I have ever seen. This is, however, consistent with your extremely small eye, since farsightedness results when you inherit a small short eye. This severity would make any laser approach...
