Hi again Sweet!
My d/d soft lenses are I think -0.25 which is the lowest power that is made. That is, there are as near "plane" as can be got. They are there as a cushion and not supposed to do anything to correct vision other than make the scleral more comfortable.
The scleral, BTW, is RGP. The previous one I used inthat eye was still a PMMA one, but this is a new, RGP, one.
SOrry but I'm intending to rock the boat a bit, being both fed up and needing new lenses! HOpe this doesn't rebound on anyone else, but MEH really ought to get this sorted, and until they have, it seems I can't get new lenses *at all*! - which is more than a bit of a bummer.
WOuld be worth your while investigating whether you can get the monthly soft lenses for less than the NHS charge.
Rosemary
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Hhmm my soft lenses are powered at 0.00 so they do nothing but make the RGP much more comfortable to wear. I think i got confused because what i meant was mine isn't a scleral lens but a corneal one, so maybe that is why it is monthly.
Hehe please don't rock the boat toooooo much as i might fall in and have to pay!!!!
LMAO!!!
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Hehe please don't rock the boat toooooo much as i might fall in and have to pay!!!!
LMAO!!!
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Rosemary
Thats some too-ing and fro-ing you got going on there!....I had a similar issue when I tried the same; soft lenses under sclerals...but my vision was not improved that much...so I reverted to soft lenses and standard RGPs.......
The cost issue is a grey area still...and it really does depend on who you see at MEH and how many cars with 3 wheels are parked on City Road!!......But this issue of writing in is common in MEH......seems there is just far too much politics within that place....and those that are the "do-ers" have now asked the patients to air concerns direct.....................but sadly...in a place where Premier League Arrogance exists..this may just fall on deaf ears.
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Thats some too-ing and fro-ing you got going on there!....I had a similar issue when I tried the same; soft lenses under sclerals...but my vision was not improved that much...so I reverted to soft lenses and standard RGPs.......
The cost issue is a grey area still...and it really does depend on who you see at MEH and how many cars with 3 wheels are parked on City Road!!......But this issue of writing in is common in MEH......seems there is just far too much politics within that place....and those that are the "do-ers" have now asked the patients to air concerns direct.....................but sadly...in a place where Premier League Arrogance exists..this may just fall on deaf ears.
J
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SOunds like a severe case of questions Should Be Asked In The House!
THe soft lenses don't do anything to improve the vision - if anything, it's marginally more ghosty - but make it possible to wear the scleral for longer and more often.
Well, I hope I don't tip anyone over the edge into having to pay - but at the moment, I can't get any *at all* and though I would (clearly, as I've been earning pretty little ofr the last couple of years, what with one thing and another) I'd rather not have to, i'd far rather have the credit card bill for lenses to pay off and be able to see (albeit "after a fashion"!) out of my right eye than not be able to see.
Am I right in thinking the group has (or had?) meeting severy so often with MEH? If they still happen, is this something that could be raised there. along with why the pharmacy will tell you one thing one day and another another day, and something compltely different five minutes later and none of them agreeing with what the practitioners think!
Rosemary
THe soft lenses don't do anything to improve the vision - if anything, it's marginally more ghosty - but make it possible to wear the scleral for longer and more often.
Well, I hope I don't tip anyone over the edge into having to pay - but at the moment, I can't get any *at all* and though I would (clearly, as I've been earning pretty little ofr the last couple of years, what with one thing and another) I'd rather not have to, i'd far rather have the credit card bill for lenses to pay off and be able to see (albeit "after a fashion"!) out of my right eye than not be able to see.
Am I right in thinking the group has (or had?) meeting severy so often with MEH? If they still happen, is this something that could be raised there. along with why the pharmacy will tell you one thing one day and another another day, and something compltely different five minutes later and none of them agreeing with what the practitioners think!
Rosemary
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i am more of a lurker in the background than a contributor,briefly,born in the best city in the world Liverpool moved to Torquay and then to Manchester I now reside in Jerusalem Israel.Ive been through transplants in each eye including a resewal due to my wife mistakenly punching it out.tried most things on the market including sclerals with no success.the only method that is relatively succesful is the piggyback method.It took quite a time to find a soft lens that was comfortable i started with the night and day which at the beginning was great but gradualy became less and i could never get the full 30 day from it.i then went on to the 2 week acuvue hydracare lens which at the beginning was fantastic but also after a couple of months became bad.On another link someone suggested the proclear compatable 30 day lens .I got similar results great at first and then less so after a couple of months.i now use the new 2 week lens from focus optix o2
and it seems to be good.they tell me it is a lens that is an improvement on their night and day.personally i prefer a 2 week lens that to a 30 day lens as, as i explained to my optician after 30 days the lens looks like something the cat brought in.All these lenses I still keep and there are some days when if one make is no good i try another.In emergencies i stock a 1 day disposable but i know my D"r does not like it .
you probably all think i am a raving lunatic but if i cannot get something into my eye i am blind as a bat
thanks for reading
Malcolm
i am more of a lurker in the background than a contributor,briefly,born in the best city in the world Liverpool moved to Torquay and then to Manchester I now reside in Jerusalem Israel.Ive been through transplants in each eye including a resewal due to my wife mistakenly punching it out.tried most things on the market including sclerals with no success.the only method that is relatively succesful is the piggyback method.It took quite a time to find a soft lens that was comfortable i started with the night and day which at the beginning was great but gradualy became less and i could never get the full 30 day from it.i then went on to the 2 week acuvue hydracare lens which at the beginning was fantastic but also after a couple of months became bad.On another link someone suggested the proclear compatable 30 day lens .I got similar results great at first and then less so after a couple of months.i now use the new 2 week lens from focus optix o2
and it seems to be good.they tell me it is a lens that is an improvement on their night and day.personally i prefer a 2 week lens that to a 30 day lens as, as i explained to my optician after 30 days the lens looks like something the cat brought in.All these lenses I still keep and there are some days when if one make is no good i try another.In emergencies i stock a 1 day disposable but i know my D"r does not like it .
you probably all think i am a raving lunatic but if i cannot get something into my eye i am blind as a bat
thanks for reading
Malcolm
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Latest update on this saga, from yesterday (Wednesday):
Had an appointment at MEH. Usual ridiculously long wait in dark gloomy waiting room, and I won't attempt to comment onthe reception staff!
Usual stuff about being asked what I can read on the chart, how long i'm wearing them for, and being peered at down slit lamp.
Met nice young lady called Shreeti Lakhani, who is chief optometrist, who says I shouldn't have to pay for the soft lens part of a piggybacking combo, was suitably shocked the previous batch had taken over 7 months from the date I paid for them, and seemed to think I shouldn't have had to pay for those, and will look into getting a refund.
New set of lenses have been ordered; I've been given 6 weeks as a time to allow for them to arrive through my letterbox.
I await with baited breath. Or even bated breath.
Meanwhile I have none left, which gives a problem for the interim, as left eye is getting osre from doing all the work in the hay fever season, and I don't like taking my four-footed friend out for a ride without the eye nearer the traffic working.
I await news of refund without holding my breath.
Meanwhile, Pharmacy appear to have no saline at all. Bloke was busy telling to go and buy some from a supermarket. we he tried to tell me it would be cheaper, I said "No, it isn't, actually" and stayed there asking about putting them on "back order" for me until he agreed to do so, and to registered them all as paid for onmy prescription season ticket. I am not holding my breath about when they will come, either. Will post updates - anyone else had these problems recently?
FOr anyone else with Moorfields appointments in the near future, you may like to know it's official - we aren't people with names any more; we are all numbers, as far as MEH is concerned!
Seriously! No, really eseriously, their computer system now indexes all appointments on the new0style hospital numbers. So it's no good telling the reception bods your name and who wyou're coming to see - all they want, need or can cope with is a number1
And apparently we are all supposed to know this number, and if we don't have our hospital number firmly embedded in our memory, we are all naughty little kids who haven't done our homework and deserve to be told off.
This apparently is a new(ish?) system - I hadn't come across it before (or don't remember having done) = though of course when I say this I'm both stupid and a liar.
Needless to say, representations have been made about this, though I'm not holding my breath about any outcome.
I suppose this is all the result of what happens when one's government start introducing Agenda To Change into the NHS - if JOhn isn't going to red-card me for saying so!!!
Rosemary
Had an appointment at MEH. Usual ridiculously long wait in dark gloomy waiting room, and I won't attempt to comment onthe reception staff!
Usual stuff about being asked what I can read on the chart, how long i'm wearing them for, and being peered at down slit lamp.
Met nice young lady called Shreeti Lakhani, who is chief optometrist, who says I shouldn't have to pay for the soft lens part of a piggybacking combo, was suitably shocked the previous batch had taken over 7 months from the date I paid for them, and seemed to think I shouldn't have had to pay for those, and will look into getting a refund.
New set of lenses have been ordered; I've been given 6 weeks as a time to allow for them to arrive through my letterbox.
I await with baited breath. Or even bated breath.
Meanwhile I have none left, which gives a problem for the interim, as left eye is getting osre from doing all the work in the hay fever season, and I don't like taking my four-footed friend out for a ride without the eye nearer the traffic working.
I await news of refund without holding my breath.
Meanwhile, Pharmacy appear to have no saline at all. Bloke was busy telling to go and buy some from a supermarket. we he tried to tell me it would be cheaper, I said "No, it isn't, actually" and stayed there asking about putting them on "back order" for me until he agreed to do so, and to registered them all as paid for onmy prescription season ticket. I am not holding my breath about when they will come, either. Will post updates - anyone else had these problems recently?
FOr anyone else with Moorfields appointments in the near future, you may like to know it's official - we aren't people with names any more; we are all numbers, as far as MEH is concerned!
Seriously! No, really eseriously, their computer system now indexes all appointments on the new0style hospital numbers. So it's no good telling the reception bods your name and who wyou're coming to see - all they want, need or can cope with is a number1
And apparently we are all supposed to know this number, and if we don't have our hospital number firmly embedded in our memory, we are all naughty little kids who haven't done our homework and deserve to be told off.
This apparently is a new(ish?) system - I hadn't come across it before (or don't remember having done) = though of course when I say this I'm both stupid and a liar.
Needless to say, representations have been made about this, though I'm not holding my breath about any outcome.
I suppose this is all the result of what happens when one's government start introducing Agenda To Change into the NHS - if JOhn isn't going to red-card me for saying so!!!
Rosemary
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Rosemary,
Despite all this we are told the NHS has never been better. If this is not enough to make you hurl the though of Johny two Jags (was going to put what the papers are calling him, but John would red card me too!) having an affair is unbarable.
On a sereous note, think you should move to the Coventry area. Came back off holiday 5 days before my appointment and I had a friendly reminder. Took the letter as instructed and handed it to reception who gave a cheery 'Hallo Mr Beynon, how are you?' exchange plesentries and then she said 'I'm sure you know te way buy now, hope the appt goes well.'
Had to wait an hour, but that was OK. I have found though, the further north and to the east I go the nicer people become.
Fully understand wanting to see the side you are close to traffic, that is why I prefer to drive with KC in Europe, the traffic does not come from my blind side. If I can not wear a lens, it is going to be my right eye.
We are free to seek work within the EU without restriction, I am sure there will be a horse friendly EU country that would welcome you.
I'm sereously thinking about improving my German and seeing if I can get a secondment through my employers to work out there.
Fingers crossed the soft lenses arrive on or prefferably ahead of time.
Despite all this we are told the NHS has never been better. If this is not enough to make you hurl the though of Johny two Jags (was going to put what the papers are calling him, but John would red card me too!) having an affair is unbarable.
On a sereous note, think you should move to the Coventry area. Came back off holiday 5 days before my appointment and I had a friendly reminder. Took the letter as instructed and handed it to reception who gave a cheery 'Hallo Mr Beynon, how are you?' exchange plesentries and then she said 'I'm sure you know te way buy now, hope the appt goes well.'
Had to wait an hour, but that was OK. I have found though, the further north and to the east I go the nicer people become.
Fully understand wanting to see the side you are close to traffic, that is why I prefer to drive with KC in Europe, the traffic does not come from my blind side. If I can not wear a lens, it is going to be my right eye.
We are free to seek work within the EU without restriction, I am sure there will be a horse friendly EU country that would welcome you.
I'm sereously thinking about improving my German and seeing if I can get a secondment through my employers to work out there.
Fingers crossed the soft lenses arrive on or prefferably ahead of time.
Gareth
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