I have issues that I would like to discuss.
My eyes:
- Age: in my teens
- An extremely rare and high prescription (minus)
- Suffer from myopia, glaucoma, astigmatism, and strabismal (I have read on all of these)
- Traumatic experience relating to eyes as a baby
- Currently using two types of eye drops to lower eye pressure (may need laser treatment or surgery to lower eye pressure)
General health:
- I believe that if there was a thing that has put the most strain on my mental wellbeing throughout my life, then it would have to be my eyes or the conditions relating to them
- Depression, social anxiety, OCD (all self-diagnosed)
- A noticeable increase in forgetfulness/poor memory
Correction:
- Glasses (difficult to see even with them on)
- I trialled rigid gas permeable lenses which were very uncomfortable, not easy to maintain, and not great at offering vision anywhere near as good as glasses
- I have looked into treatments such as PRK, Lasik surgery, Lasek surgery, Implantable contact lens surgery, replacement lens surgery, etc.
Concerns and questions:
- I am unsure as to whether having corrections done to lower my eye pressure (laser treatment or surgery) may prevent me from being able to consider treatments to actually correct eyesight and vision e.g. ICL, PRK, etc.
- I don't know if my prescription will become stable
- How do I get a job, study or progress in life while I feel sure that all of this would continue to hold me back?
- How do I stay strong and not let all of this get to me?
- How do I overcome the issue of wearing thick or coke-bottle glasses?
- If I'm financially able one day, what treatment do I go for?
I wouldn't have cared much had I not been told that my situation could find me in a state of total blindness, but I have and so I want to do something about it.