What you need to know about myopia or short-sightedness
Learn more about myopia or short-sightedness and your treatment options
Who can we help?
We do our best to understand your needs and aims so we can offer you the best vision correction options
What do patients with Myopia experience?
The answer is simple – they feel limited and not in charge of their life
The world feels different with glasses on
You’ve gotten used to facial furniture you wear day in and day out. But the headaches, eyestrain and squinting will never be fun.
Contact lenses can be bothersome and risky
Fortunately, glasses and contact lenses can improve short-sightedness. But, if you dislike the way your glasses look or feel, or if the high risk of contact lens infection worries you, then this isn’t a great solution. Research also shows that your eyes are safer with laser eye surgery than contact lenses.
Dreaming of 20/20, spectacle-free
Saying premature goodbyes to spectacles is annoying and expensive, and with contact lenses, you are essentially renting your ability to see clearly. You often think about how lucky those people are with normal vision.
You prefer your face without glasses
It’s nice when friends and family pay you compliments on your glasses, but you rarely agree. They may make your eyes look unusually small, or detract from your facial features.
Don’t just grin and bear them
If you’re tired of your glasses or contact lenses, let us help you. With modern laser eye surgery, we can correct your short-sightedness so that you can enjoy life at all distances, free from visual aids. If you’re too young for laser eye surgery, we may be able to slow down the progression of short-sightedness with drops.
Here’s what Londoners say about vision correction at My-iClinic
We are proud to hear we make a meaningful difference in your life
Have been dreaming about laser eye surgery since I was 15. Can’t believe that my eyes can actually see right now without contacts, wow! Will recommend My-iClinic to all of my friends. Mr Bolger is the best.
Beautiful setup plus excellent service, reassuring expertise of surgeons, friendly staff and yet very professional. Absolutely phenomenal all round! Very pleased with everything.
Brilliant experience with My-iClinic for laser eye surgery. The team are clearly experts in the area, and I felt well looked after through the entire process. Honest, friendly and professional, I thoroughly recommend My-iClinic for anyone considering laser corrective surgery.
I had a really satisfactory experience with my-iClinic and am quite happy with the results of the surgery and the aftercare. I would like to recommend it to anyone who wants to have any kind of eye surgery with them. Absolutely brilliant.?
I was struggling with a viral conjunctivitis. After 2 visits to Moorfields and the condition getting worse, I was recommended to My-iClinic. I felt instantly looked after, and was seen almost daily due to the severity of the virus. It has now been 4 weeks and I am well on the mend thanks to the care and patience of Mr Bolger. I also found the pricing of this practice extremely reasonable unlike most of private practice medicine.
I’d highly recommend this clinic because of its nice, friendly and experienced team; they all are very professional in every aspect, you would get the best advise here! Also, the clinic looks very modern from the inside and you will just feel very comfortable and relaxed throughout the whole process in a place like this.
Myopia / short-sightedness explained
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Compare with other relevant eye conditions
Eye conditions are frequently misunderstood, so here’s a quick overview of the ones we most commonly treat
Astigmatism
Astigmatism is caused by abnormalities in the cornea and the lens.
If you have astigmatism, the front of your eye is not a perfectly round shape like a football. Instead, it is more oval like a rugby ball. This gives the front of your eye an asymmetric curvature, so light scatters as it goes into your eye. This produces a jagged and slightly distorted image. Learn more about astigmatism here.
Treatments for astigmatism
- Laser eye surgery
- Refractive lens exchange
Cataracts
A cataract is the clouding of your natural eye lens.
The natural lens is just behind the pupil of your eye, and it helps to make a clear image on your retina. Usually, this lens is crystal clear.
As a cataract develops, the lens becomes increasingly milky, causing a greenish cloudiness. It may also cause a glare in bright lights and change in the focus of the eyes, needing a frequent replacement of your glasses. Eventually, the sight does not improve with a change of glasses. Find more information on cataracts here.
Treatments for cataract
Glaucoma
Glaucoma is a condition that causes the pressure inside the eye to be too high. If left untreated, this excessive pressure can damage the nerve that carries the vision to the brain; in severe cases, this can lead to blindness. Learn more about glaucoma here.
Treatments for glaucoma
- Eye drops
- Eye surgery
Hyperopia / Long-sightedness
Long-sighted – also known as hypermetropia or hyperopia – is when you cannot see things up close. It’s exactly the opposite problem to short-sightedness. Learn more about long-sightedness here.
Treatments for long-sightedness
- Contacts
- Eye glasses
- Laser eye surgery
- Refractive lens exchange
Keratoconus
Keratoconus is an eye condition that affects the shape of your eye. Rather than your eye growing in a sphere shape, it grows in a cone-shape causing your cornea to progressively thin and bulge.
Keratoconus can cause significant visual impairment, or it can go unnoticed, and your vision remains normal. Learn more about keratoconus here.
Treatments for keratoconus
- Corneal cross-linking
- Contacts
- Eye glasses
Lazy eyes
The usual cause of having a lazy eye is when the eye is very out of focus as a child. This leads to the brain ignoring the image from that eye, and the brain doesn’t upload the software necessary to analyse the vision. Learn more about lazy eye here.
Treatment
The treatment of amblyopia or lazy eye is to patch the good eye in order to force the lazy eye to work harder.
Treatment is only effective in children under the age of seven.
Myopia / Short-sightedness
If you are short-sighted (also known as myopic) you can see things that are up close but can struggle to see things further away. This is because light entering the eye is focused in front of the retina when it should focus on the retina. It focuses too soon. Learn more about short-sightedness here.
Treatments for short-sightedness
- Laser eye surgery
- Refractive lens exchange
- Intraocular contact lenses (ICL)
Presbyopia
Usually, between the ages of about 45 and 55, the autofocus mechanism in our eye gradually fails. When this happens, we have to increasingly rely on glasses to read computer screens or printed matter. Learn more about presbyopia here.
Treatments for presbyopia
- Reading glasses
- Refractive lens exchange
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About the experts
Meet the My-iClinic founders, Mr John Bolger and Ms Bola Odufuwa. Two consultant eye surgeons who made it their life goal to make your life better.
