Has Anyone Had "Nonsurgical Vision Correction"?

 We have an eyedoctor here advertising of late on T.V. about a new, non-sugical method of vision correction.   The patients apparently wear special contacts at night while sleeping that gradually reshape their corneas into proper "alignment" over time, akin to the way those removable dental braces are worn overnight to straighten teeth.  

   Sounds pretty cool and safe.     

I wear glasses...isn't that what that is?  Non-surgical correction? 


I crack me up!

I was thinking the same thing!!! Oh, and I have 10 books listed and already have 2 ready to ship - how cool is that!!

I KNEW someone was going to say that .   somehow  ..         (bad girl, Kris!   )

That's me!

You know that's the very first thing I thought too.  LOL, I've had non-surgical correction since high school

Debbi

Hi,

I have keratoconus which is a genetic disorder of the cornea.  My corneas cone outward and cause me to have legal  blindness, night blindness and seeing triple of everything. 

I could no longer wear glasses and correct my vision because they can't make a lens with different prescriptions throughout the lens.  :(

I saw a specialist in Dallas who developed a hard, gas permeable lens that basically pushes the cornea back into a more normal shape.  So far, my vision is stable and a cornea transplant is not necessary for awhile.  I am NOT allowed to wear them at night because they are hard.  The cost of the two lenses was $1700 and that included the exam and special testing.  There is no insurance to replace a lost one and I had to pay all but $150 out of my own pocket because that is all my vision insurance would cover.  My health insurance refuses to believe they are medically necessary even though my doctors have all sent letters.

I believe that something like you mentioned in your post would work, since that is basically what is working for me, but I would certainly get as much info as possible because the cost is going to be similar to laser surgery.

Just my thoughts on it.  :)

toni I went into gas perms at age 7 to slow down the disinigration of my vision - I wore them till I was in my mid 20s had lasic and at 31 went back into glass at 33 I was back in gas perms

I remmeber the days of my thousand dollar lense and the other was the "cheap" one at only 3-500
I also remember dropping my left one (the more expensive one) into my bathroom drain and grabing a hammer and bashing out the bottom of the pipe to get it back - plumber was way cheaper than the new lense would have been

you should have seen my face the first time I got gas perms after lasic and they were under $100 FOR BOTH and like $150 for the exam, and fittings - my vision is still deterating - I figure the 6 years I was out of lenses due to lasic saved me 3 or 4 grand not counting the last few years of low cost lenses. but best of all I got myself another 15 20 years before my vision becomes uncorectable again
and I pray often that in that extra time they will come up with something else to help - I was able though a LOT of hard work and paper work able to establish prelasic that my lenses were medically nessesary (they also had to justify putting me in them so young) so as a kid they were covered but never as an adult and our insurance now does not even cover contact exams

peace
danni
who figures it is probalby the same type of thing so no good to me - I already wear gas perms from the time I get up til I go to bed

My DH and I have had them for almost a year.  I am about a -5.5 so I'm a hard to fit.  It has been wonderful and I would highly recommend it to anyone.  Local Dr. in Tyler charged about $700 last year for both lenses and all follow up.  Don't know what the current rate it.

I sleep in these funny hard lenses and take them off when I get up.  I am free of contact and of glasses I have worn since I was in the 3rd grade.

I too, have worn these lenses since January of this year. They are called CRT lenses which stands for corneal refractive therapy. My Dr. is in Ennis, TX (south of Dallas) and the price of 600.00 included lenses and all follow up visits.  I have worn glasses/contacts since 6th grade and I absolutely LOVE  not having to wear them now except to sleep in.