Postby rosemary johnson » Mon 30 Jun 2008 6:46 pm
Hi, and welcome to the forum.
In response to your questions:
1. I presume these are "negative", ie. short-sighted, powers. 1.5 and 2.5 aren't very powerful in themselves as values for "ordinary" shortsightedness.
The key to how bad the KC is, though, is not simply a measure of how short=sighted you are, but how irregular your eyeballs are. You could actually have a shortsightedness value of -14 and no problems with KC as long as the eyeballis a regular or "smooth" shape, and a lot of trouble iwth KC of a zero power correction if the front of your eye is irregular or "lumpy".
I'd think the key to how good/bad the KC is would be not the power but the fact that you are doing OK in glasses, and haven't had to resort to one of the many typs of contact lens yet.
2. If you can get onto one of the trials being run, it won't. Of course, that doesn't mean you won't have outlays - time off work, travel, etc etc.
3. You'd need to ask the consultant or his staff how many appointments and at what intervals they are likely to ask you to come to, as each team tends to have their own routine. Of course, the better the procedure goes and the better you heal, that may mean fewer appointments, or further apart.
Incidentally, no-one is going to do both eyes at once! - because if they do, you'll be totally lind while they heal. You have one done at a time, and you can then use the other one to get about with while the one that's been "done" heals and recovers. THen you may get the other one done later.
Hope this helps.
Rosemary
