Al Faretta wrote: I am a potential Multifocal lens patient as is my wife who has an early cataract… my wife has to have her eyes sorted by early next year if she wants to continue to drive.
Obviously I have read all your posts, including the ones I didn’t approve because of your blatant and irresponsible promotion of unnecessary surgery, advising people to go ahead and take the risk regardless of the consequences.
I am not going to say too much as I’m sure other people will respond to your post, but I would like to point out that if your wife has a cataract preventing her from driving then she is entitled to an NHS operation.
My friend is 54 and had cataract surgery at Moorfields NHS hospital two months ago, he didn’t wait long for surgery and is very happy with the results.
Al Faretta wrote:
I was quoted silly money by the Moorfields Clinic but at the same time we don't want to compromise care in any way.
Many of the Moorfields NHS surgeons are also in private practice, some across the road at Moorfields Private, and although not Multifocals, your wife will get same expertise.
Regarding your own plans to undergo lens exchange, no mention of cataracts, I am surprised that having done so much research you would even consider this, let alone in a clinic where there "
is a busy waiting room”.
Having spent so much time reading OERML you know that a busy waiting room cannot be compared to a busy restaurant!
There’re unlikely to be many people eating if the restaurant doesn’t serve good food, whereas I’ve been in OE’s busy waiting rooms on numerous occasions (before they banned me) when the majority of people were patients left with problems!
You’ve obviously invested a significant sum of money paying for consultations, saying, "
It needs a lot of research to ensure we take the right decision and not subject ourselves to an 'experimental' procedure.”
Surely this contradicts your post on 3 December?
Al Faretta wrote: Multifocal vision technology cannot be considered 'experimental' any longer if it has been around for 10 to 15 years.
You’re unusual Al, because the first thing most people wanting treatment do when they find OERML is to ask me for advice, but you haven't, in fact you've been offering advice.
Btw, you might be interested to know that your varying IP addresses all coincidentally match the locations of Optical Express clinics.
Small world