Dear Dr. Love,

The following is my experiences with Corneal Refractive Therapy. You may use this in published testimonials or in other ways to help other patients learn of this type of vision therapy.

I am a 50 year old man who wore contacts for 39 years. My prescription is about -4.00.

I had a friend try CRT for about 8 months before I decided to do it. He loved the freedom it gave him: No dry eyes in the evening, no contact hassles during the day.

I am a kitchen designer/remodeller. I do work that ranges from computer work to driving to construction work.

My vision was just bad enough to where I knew that my next contact prescription would put me into the category of needing reading glasses. I really wanted my independence from reading glasses and didn't want to get bi-focals. I knew of people who at my stage of eye correction had gotten contacts that corrected one eye for near and one eye for far vision. I just wanted the best vision I could get with freedom from glasses, so I figured that I would try that differential eye correction.

When I was a kid, my first eye Dr. had told me that wearing the hard contact lenses in my teenage years would slow the myopia progression as the contacts put hydrostatic pressure on the front of my cornea and flatten them somewhat, which would counteract my myopia. Because I had experienced something similar to CRT I thought I would try it.

The first time I put the CRT contacts on I was surprised at how much I could feel them in my eye. They felt kind of chunky. The next morning my corneas had become shaped like the contact and I couldn't feel them any more. That morning I went in for an eye check and was already corrected enough to drive legally - in one night!

In a couple of days I had 20-20 vision in my right eye and whatever the vision was that I needed for reading in my left eye. That was quick!

Dr. Love had coached me not to study how well each eye was seeing at different distances. He said it would make my mind hyper sensitive to the vision difference that I had been corrected for, and that if I just let my mind figure it out I could enjoy the differently corrected eyes.

I thought that the hassles of CRT lenses worn at night would be similar to the hassles of regular contacts worn in the day. After a few weeks I realized that I was loving the freedom of having nothing in my eyes during the day. The contacts never interrupted my sleep and in the morning I just took them out! That is cool!

So, several months down the road and I am really enjoying CRT. Thank you Dr. Love for your comfortable manner, good product and good coaching.

Sincerely,
Doug Hamilton
29940 Rainey Rd
Sorrento, FL 32776
407 484-4833