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Orthokeratology safe?
Someone I know recently got CRT (Orthokeratology).
I have been reading about those, and most of the doctors did not recommend it, except those who were from (http://www.paragoncrt.com/).
Is it really safe? Would regular contacts be better off?
I wanted an unbiased answer, because I couldn't tell on other sites.
I have been reading about those, and most of the doctors did not recommend it, except those who were from (http://www.paragoncrt.com/).
Is it really safe? Would regular contacts be better off?
I wanted an unbiased answer, because I couldn't tell on other sites.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
The ability of your eye to focus will continue to decrease due to lens rigidity until you 80's that is why the reading glass display at the drug store starts with +1.00 and goes to +3.50.
Your soft contacts are generally set for 20 feet away. So you need reading glasses, as you get older these will need to be stronger and in your 50's you will need a different strength to shop or use a computer.
It might be possible depending on your eye to give you "mini-monofocal" like IOL patients sometimes elect where one eye would be focused at distance (20 ft or further and refractive error of zero; and the other mid distance -1.50) Without glasses you would be able to drive, shop, use computer and in strong light read. For your best vision you would need prescription no line bifocals.
There is no perfect solution to escape glasses completely all the time just like there is no way to escape getting old and death.
Go to www.geteyesmart.org and find a refrctive Surgeon Eye MD near you and go in for a consult. OR just get prescription no line glasses and live with it.
JCH MD
Your soft contacts are generally set for 20 feet away. So you need reading glasses, as you get older these will need to be stronger and in your 50's you will need a different strength to shop or use a computer.
It might be possible depending on your eye to give you "mini-monofocal" like IOL patients sometimes elect where one eye would be focused at distance (20 ft or further and refractive error of zero; and the other mid distance -1.50) Without glasses you would be able to drive, shop, use computer and in strong light read. For your best vision you would need prescription no line bifocals.
There is no perfect solution to escape glasses completely all the time just like there is no way to escape getting old and death.
Go to www.geteyesmart.org and find a refrctive Surgeon Eye MD near you and go in for a consult. OR just get prescription no line glasses and live with it.
JCH MD
Why do you think that someone would be better off with lasik? I am just asking as I hate how near sighted I am and hate glasses. I don't mind the soft contacts I wear but I am having to use a stronger reading glass to compensate when I do close up sewing. I am 49 and i wonder if I did lasik if as I grow older that my eye's will change more and this might not be a goo dlong term thing. Am I just confused on long term eye changes?
The doc I saw said I could do either one, he said he has his own done and liked the results. Should I just get a stronger reading glass? LOL Thanks
The doc I saw said I could do either one, he said he has his own done and liked the results. Should I just get a stronger reading glass? LOL Thanks
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
This is my opinion: you would be better off with glasses, or regular contacts or refractive surgery like lasik.
JCH MD
JCH MD
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