optometrist where to find a real one

[nigelforbes]

3 hours ago, mania said:

You were fleeced for that floater (which you still have)

The good news is you were not fleeced a second time with the 360 BS

 

Floaters are not a big deal & your brain will eventually deal with it & you won't see them anymore.

Also some small flashes of light when you first turn off lights is normal with aging eyes due to these micro tears

 

Sad but true yes Falang enters a Thai hospital & is told you need this NOW is often usually $$$ BS

 

Trust me I flew all the way back to the USA just to be laughed at by real doctors when I told them

The famous kidney doctor of Thailand said I need an operation NOW

 

7 years later I see the laughing doctors in the USA were right as I listened to them & had nothing done.

 

It is a hard to accept fact that even doctors in Thailand will fleece you & worse use your fears to do so.

It is when I realized it does not matter in Thailand....street vendors...immigration officers...monks...all cut from the same cloth

Not exactly that. The floater was the result of a torn retina, that is unquestionable since when I saw Dr Roy at Rutnin and we both viewed both retina's on the large screen, the laser repair could easily be seen, as could the thinning retina in that area. So the Ophthalmologist of some repute who did the repair, did the right thing and did a good job. Where that person and the private hospital failed badly was in the initial deception and the ensuing delay. And according to Dr Roy, floaters of any size, and this one is extremely large, do not simply settle at the bottom of the eye, they remain suspended until they are removed. There is no question that the dual 360 degree laser recommendation was medically unnecessary.

[mania]

1 hour ago, nigelforbes said:

Not exactly that. The floater was the result of a torn retina, that is unquestionable since when I saw Dr Roy at Rutnin and we both viewed both retina's on the large screen, the laser repair could easily be seen, as could the thinning retina in that area. So the Ophthalmologist of some repute who did the repair, did the right thing and did a good job. Where that person and the private hospital failed badly was in the initial deception and the ensuing delay. And according to Dr Roy, floaters of any size, and this one is extremely large, do not simply settle at the bottom of the eye, they remain suspended until they are removed. There is no question that the dual 360 degree laser recommendation was medically unnecessary.

Anything is possible but about floaters they do in fact settle

(or your brain eventually copes with it) as I have had a batch in my right eye (and the flashes) & I'm fine now. Just as the US eye doctor told me it would eventually be.

 

In any case be careful with Thai doctors. That you saw the laser repair on screen is no guarantee that it was ever truly needed . Also never expect any Thai doctor to say anything negative about other doctors with the childish defamation laws here

 

Good Luck going forward hope your eyes are ok

 

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/14209-floaters--flashers

Edited December 19, 2022 by mania

[Photoguy21]

20 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

Unless you know probably best to visit ophthalmologist at a hospital.  Cost is not that much here.

Agreed

[nigelforbes]

On 12/19/2022 at 1:24 PM, mania said:

Trust me I flew all the way back to the USA just to be laughed at by real doctors when I told them

The famous kidney doctor of Thailand said I need an operation NOW

 

7 years later I see the laughing doctors in the USA were right as I listened to them & had nothing done.

 

It is a hard to accept fact that even doctors in Thailand will fleece you & worse use your fears to do so.

It is when I realized it does not matter in Thailand....street vendors...immigration officers...monks...all cut from the same cloth

I forgot to add that I agree with your sentiment here, finding a fully trained, good quality doctor who also has ethics and morals is not always easy, far too many are motivated by greed more than anything else. There's another layer of competence which has to do with doctors in the same town, ones who were born in the town, went to University there, became doctors and practiced there. All those doctors will have been trained by the same people, all doctors in one particular specialty will have been trained by the same person and all remain very close for years. I've seen this in action a couple of times. Now, when choosing a doctor I consider why they are where they are. Did they move to Chiang Mai to develop their career or have they never left, I try to avoid the latter.

 

And I do note that specialists each have their own money making tests that they like to push, I think of them as high earner tests. Gastroenterologists like to recommend gastroscopy/endoscopy (35k), cardiologists like to recommend angiograms (50k), Orthopedics love MRI's (20K+) and skin doctors like biopsies (various). It is a minefield, no question.

 

[zeekgarcia]

On 5/14/2022 at 2:36 PM, FolkGuitar said:

Dr. Paradee, my ophthalmologist at Sri Phat Medical Center (who has been treating me well for three years; operations and follow-ups) recommended that I visit the optometrist who had recently left the Medical Center to open her own business. I can't remember her name, but her shop is located 50m on the right down Ratvithi Soi 1 off Moon Muang Rd.

If you can read Thai, here's a pic of the front of the shop, including phone numbers.

She is 'Old School.' She uses 'try lenses' rather than that big bug-eye looking machine that never seems to get my numbers right! She, on the other hand, doesn't stop swapping lenses and moving axis until you can see the very best image.  Then she will offer to make your glasses and a price that beats all the chain shops!

 

On 12/11/2022 at 3:28 PM, Rotweiler said:

Her name is Khun Vannee.  The name of the clinic is Jaksu Patana.

It seems like this Dr clinic is only open on Saturday AM, does anyone know where she is during the week? 

Because most Drs here have daytime clinics at the hospitals here or they work at partner clinics. 

Any info about this Dr or a recommendation about another Eye Dr would be good. Thanks

[JimmyJ]

Several in this thread stated they have an Opthamologist do their RX for glasses.

 

I'd be interested in which Opthamologists you have used for this (assuming you recommend them) and at which Hospitals.

 

In CM at Ram a few years ago I asked my Opthamologist for an RX and was referred to an Optician?/Optometrist?/neither? in an eye testing room across the hall.

 

At Sriphat I asked an  Opthamologist for an RX and was told that in Thailand it's not (generally?) done that way, the Opthamologist does not do RX glasses prescriptions.

Sriphat has a 3rd party vendor on the Eye floor who sells glasses and does RX's. Whether he is an Optometrist/Optician or neither I don't know.

 

Edited March 25, 2023 by JimmyJ

[JimTripper]

On 12/10/2022 at 6:32 PM, Dante99 said:

Back to the topic:

 

True MD to test your eyes and make you glasses, referred to me by MD at CM Ram is

 

New York Optician

253/1 Chaaang Puak Road

 

053 215 224

 

 

I guess they got the city and country name right ????