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| I regret having it done 21 months ago as I now have problems which, it seems, I'm going to have to live with for the rest of my life. Apparently, I have a condition called Intermittent Exotropia which the experts at the hospital seem to think I may have always had. I was never told about it by any optician I ever saw or the consultant prior to the wavefront lasik. It's an outward squint (cross eye) which, it seems, was being corrected by my shortsighted prescription without me knowing. I never had a prism in my glasses and nothing was ever on my prescription. My mum didn't know I had it and I think, if I have always had it, then it was probably never detected because I always wore glasses. I now have an eye which moves on it's own. I have been told by the hospital that there is nothing that can be done except an operation which isn't always sucessful and could leave me worse. They seem to think, at the hospital, that it's too mild to consider operating on. I have been told that the eyestrain and headaches are something I am going to have to live with. The reading glasses don't seem to help. I have to look at things from a slight angle to see things straight and even then it's not right. I think that's probably why I was feeling dizzy and sick all the time for the first few months after treatment. It also seems to be affecting my neck because I am holding my head at an angle. I have been told that a prism wll not correct it because my eyes don't work together properly. I am still slightly shortsighted but it's only very mild and I need reading glasses because I'm 44 but I was warned about that and can live with it. I do feel sometimes that it's great to be able to see without glasses but I would swop my headaches, dodgy eye and eyestrain any day for a pair of specs. I'd rather be four eyed than cross eyed and I still need them to read. If I had been told that I would be left with a squint after treatment I would never have done it. It took me ages to establish why I had the problems I was having and my business suffered because of it. I kept going back to Optimax but was just told my eyes were fine and there was nothing wrong except that I needed reading glasses. It was only when a close friend told me my eye was moving in the wrong direction that I went to the Opthalmic dept of the hospital and found out what the problem is.
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