Should I get ICL on both eyes? Left eye -6.5, right eye -1.25 with -1.5 astigmatism
Right eye -1.25 -1.50 143, pupil 7.11mm mesopic.
Left eye -6.50 -0.75 35, pupil 6.87mm mesopic
I'm 31F with a left eye that's highly myopic and a right eye that's only mildly myopic with astigmatism. Don't ask me why, it's been like that since I started wearing glasses in high school 🤪. My corneas are around 500 um so not super thin but not thick either.
I've received a ton of different opinions from different clinics about what's best. LASIK MD approved me for LASIK, but two other clinics said that because of dryness and thin corneas and recommeded ICLs instead.
After thinking about it I've decided on ICL for my left eye for sure. The two clinics that recommended ICLs to me said to do ICLs for both eyes, but for my right eye I'm not sure if I want to do a toric ICL (TICL) since I've read some cases online about the lens rotating. Since these lenses will stay in my eye for the next few decades, I want to avoid any possible complications. Now I'm wondering if i should
- Just get a TICL for right eye
- Ask about limbal relaxing incisions (LRIs) -- I didn't know about this option. One clinic suggested it, the other one didn't mention it at all as a possibility
- Ask about doing ICL for left eye, LASIK for right eye
Any thoughts? Am I overthinking the risk of rotation which probably won't even be that bad for a case of mild astigmatism?