Does anyone have any experience?  They are gas permiable contact lenses for short sighted people, you wear when you are asleep and they flatten your cornea which means when you take them out the next morning you can go the whole day without the aid of glasses or contact lenses.  I'm very excited, just got my ortho-k lenses on saturday but have to wait until Wednesday night to put them in because I have to go back to the optian first thing.  Apparently my vision will be almost completely corrected during the first night and full results will be acheived within the first week.  I'm too scared to have laser surgery so this seems like a pretty good compromise.

I can't wait :D :D

I have heard of them as philip scofield did it on this morning. And would LOVE to. only thing is the cost :(
PLEASE let us know how it goes :D :D :D
Lea :)

I certainly will lea :D Its really difficult cos ive got the lenses and im dying to put them in :O The cost isn't too bad tbh it was £40 for the consultation and they use a wierd machine to map out the cornea so they can make the lenses, then its £60 when you get the lenses which includes the first months solution and £30 per month there after and that includes all consultation fees and 2 pairs of lenses per year and covers breakages (i think) the only other thing to pay for is solution which is about a fiver :D :D

which options are doing these special lenes Storm

Not all opticians are doing them, its just a case of phoning around and asking, most of them didn't have a clue what i was on about :)

Wow,
Now thats not as expensive as i thought.
Now you have got me thinking!!!!!!!!!!
Lea :)

:) :) only 2 more days until "insertion" I hate waiting.  I did think that was very reasonable, the price varies for £30 - 40 per month depending on what area the opticians are in.

Just to update, I've returned from the opticians after wearing them for a second night and both eyes have been corrected and I don't need to wear glasses :) its pretty amazing really I can actually read signs and drive my car without glasses.  The lenses are pretty uncomfortable to begin with but once your asleep its fine and on waking my first thought wasn't ahhhh get these lenses out, so it all seems to be going very well atm I just need to get into a routine of using them now :)

Clair

That sounds great S :D I`m interested in them now, like you too much of a scaredy cat to try laser :rolleyes:

Tell me do you have to put the lense in every night for life or is it a set time?

oh & just how uncomfortable are they:D

Yeah, these sound like a miracle, I quite fancy them as well. However, having had a little google, I think my vision might be too bad for them to help me. I'm a terrifying -9 and a bit both eyes, and I've worn contacts for 30 years. So I'm thinking I'm getting to the point where I should give them up. My eyes have suffered from lack of oxygen, because I wear mine too much.

I think I'll ask about these Ortho-K ones though.

Dawn R.

Yes unfortunately you have to put them in for life :( its just a treatment not a cure, but i spose the plus side of that is its completely reversable unlike laser surgery.  When you first put them in it feels very gritty in your eyes and extremely uncomfortable but my eyes are really sensitive and I can't tolerate soft lenses for any length of time so initially i was really sceptical about being able to cope with the discomfort.  But after a few moments they settle down (and a few swear words) its fine I watched TV for about an hour in bed with them in with no probs, as soon as your asleep it seems theres nothing to it.  I'm assured that as time goes on the initial discomfort will reduce.  They are very similar to standard gas perimiable lenses and people that ive spoken to who use them (standard gp lenses) say they're not bothered by them at all. :) :)

Ok, just to update I had really good vision until about 4:30pm today and I definitely started to noticed it start to fade, not too bad though the optician said that it would probably last till teatime and then to put the lenses back in.  Eventually I shouldget to a stage where my new found vision will last until bedtime and beyond!!!!! :) Hiya Dawn, yes i think they only recommend it for up to -7 but it's still worth asking about :)

Thanks for update S, think I`ll see how you go on for a bit longer with em ;) Still pretty interested tho, they sound good & like the thought of no glasses :D

Can we have an update pretty pleeeaaaasssseeeeee
Lea :)

Hmmmm, sounds interesting, what if you need to wear bi focals ?

:D :D Ok an update :) its been nearly 3 weeks (I think) surely time doesn't go that quick :o Its been great I haven't put my glasses for ages, even if I did they would be too strong!!.  I'm pretty much used to the lenses now which are no bother at all when I'm asleep.  I'm also nearly at the stage where the "effect" lasts until bedtime so I just have to put them in last thing at night.  The worst bit of it has been the inital stage where I had to put them in early in the evening to build up the effect.  I suppose it depends on how you would tolerate normal lenses - which in my case not very well.  I went to the opticians for a check about a week and a half ago and at 5:30pm (i'd taken them out at around 7:30am) my vision was better than 20/20 :) :) .  My eyes seem fine at having the lenses in all night and I'm not immediately aware that I've got them in when I get out of bed or if I wake up during the night.

I'm just soooo pleased no more glasses, its nice to be able to see corners and edges again :)

I'm not sure about bifocals but if I remember rightly the optician did say they can do it by treating one eye, I'm going for another check on Saturday I could ask if you like :)

Clair
xx

My sister had the surgery done on her eye's and well she can't drive at night because she can't see :( She can't get the surgery again either, this has been well over a year I believe...

My cousin has the contacts that stay in your eyes and you sleep in them and everything, he likes them says they are great....

I just have disposable ones cause I can't be bothered to get up and put them in at 5-6am in the morning. But these ones your talking about I think I may want to check into them :) I love it when Iam wearing mine cause I can see, and it's no nice not having to wear glasses. I really hate em glasses :( lol

Laser surgery scares me I'm too much of a wimp.  :( your poor sister its so risky having eye surgery but I compeltely understand why she took the risk.  I had disposable lenses but I couldn't get on with them.  Its nice to watch TV lying down without having the arm of my glasses digging into the side of my head :D or having to worry about nodding off with the disposables still glued to my eyes.

I have tried contacts but could only wear them 3 days a week because of my job so never got used to them :(
I have astigmnatism aswellso dont know if these wonder lenses will work on me but am deffinatly going to make enquires!!!!
Would love laser eye treatment, but thats just out of my league :(
Lea :)

Lea, I have a slight austigmatism but the lenses have corrected that also :) :)

I wanted to have the suregry too but as yet, my prescription hasn't been stable enough for it to be considered. I have an astigmatism too and a congenital cateract, just to complicate matters further :rolleyes: I use disposable lenses for going out but can't use them for work because they don't correct my vision sufficiently so I will definitely enquire about these new lenses at my next eye test in a couple of months :)

I asked the lady at my eye doctor's she never heard about it, and she is going to ask my eye doctor about them, I would love to get them. Do you think they offer them here in Canada? If not then maybe I will check into the ones you where for a month. Right now I wear the disposable ones - thro away every day.

It's quite new when I was phoning around to try and get some information a lot/most of the opticians didn't know what I was talking about I'm pretty sure they must do it in Canada.

Hi Storm
Do you live in the Uk? I wasn,t sure I,m going to ring my optician and make enquiries about these lenses in the past I,ve been told lenses are no good to me because of my austigmatism but i,m going to have another pester now and see what I can make out
Thanks very much for letting us all know about them
Sharon

Hiya sharon, yes im in the UK :) like I said though, you might have to ring around to find one that does them.  They need a special topography (?) machine to map the cornea and its quite an expensive bit of kit :D

Thanks Storm

I'm hoping they do them here,  have an eye appt now in March (had to cancel the one this month) so hoping they have some info for me then :)