Laser eye surgeries

[Guest guest]

Another ' Special' question to keep you all awake this bank

holiday weekend. I am extremely short sighted, courtesy of my Dad, which

is where the EDS comes from, too. The adverts for laser eye surgery go

on about how accurate, painless, life changing it is, etc. (Our adverts

are starting to follow the US model, sadly. Private hospitals doing

surgeries of every type and 'no win, no fee' accident management

companies. There is still very limited advertising of medication, mainly

OTC meds, but I can see the companies pushing the boundaries to see

where the advertising watchdog will draw the line.) Anyway back on

topic, has anyone had, or know any research on, laser eye surgery to

correct extremely short sight in EDSers? Healing, scarring, does it

actually work for us, etc.? I'm over -8 in both eyes, with the left eye

worse than the right. (Not sure how that maps in US terms.)

For CEDA newbies, I live in the UK, have HEDS plus at least two other

types of arthritis and have been on the list since 1997 or 1998, I

think, originally on my work email addy. I did manage to attend the US

EDNF Philadelphia Conference in 1999, have attended three or four UK

EDSG conferences (one day every two years) and am the Southern Contact

for the UK organisation. I write EDS articles now and again, which are

published in whatever EDS publication that wants to print them. I also

write cat stories for another group, plus a few one offs that get posted

as and when on yet another group, health, hospital appointments, energy

and naps permitting. Sadly, I fall at the 'severely effected' end of the

EDS spectrum and haven't been able to work since February 2001 at the

grand old age of 38. I only went off sick for eight to ten weeks for

orthopaedic surgery... I have become very medically educated and

practice 'defensive medicine' (term courtesy of Doris IIRC). I also run

an international slimming/dieting group for people with arthritis

(including EDS) on Yahoo. The only 'kids' I have are four legged and

furry. All four are rescues, three horrific abuse cases with the

physical, mental and emotional damage that goes along with that sort of

thing. Two cats have arthritis, one due to age and she doesn't want

medication (Poppy), the other due to abuse who is on medication (Flo).

Keeping her comfortable and good quality of life is the aim, and the vet

and I are happy with things at the moment. So is she. Unlike me, Flo has

reached goal on our arthritis slimmers/dieters group. Our only feline

group member. We accept overweight pets as long as they have arthritis.

Same rules as for human members. LOL

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Fuller

Furry purries Grace, Poppy, Flo and Fliss

Folding for the future with the Arthritis Warriors team.