How much time you get when visiting a doctor?

I'm not sure how things work there, but here you generally get as much time as you need with the doctor as long as its not like a whole hour or something which is rare. My doctors don't really try to rush me out the door and are always open to me asking questions and such.

 

In this case describe you had this problem for months and you did several treatments from general doctors without improvement. Say the treatments and ask the doctor politely to send you to an ophtalmologist

 

In England the appointment are made for 10 minutes. But because of the complex nature of the medical problems I have, he gives me 25/30 minutes.

 

They are right if several ophtalmologists saw you even one they already saw your eyes and found nothing serious. You have an allergy to the sun. If artificial eye tears were not enough you need to add sunglasses with uv protection and antiallergic eye drops to your eye care.

Also ocassionaly you'll get eye infections because your eyes are more sensitive so you'll need to use eye antibiotics whe this happens.

Probably the next ophtalmologist will add all this to your treatment.

If not ask for antiallergic eye drops because avoiding sun and heat, very cold weather cn cause it too. it's not enough and if the doctor can describe you antibiotics for when you develop infections.

Also buy some good sunglasses with uv protection they help a lot.

Atopic eyes has no cure so no ophtalmologists will cure it. You just need to be careful with what triggers it and use sunglasses and eye drops when needed

 

Also this is not a matter of time, it doesn't take too long for an ophtalmologist to see your eyes only a couple of minutes and that is it. But regular treatment is not enough for you, just tell the next ophtalmologist of your allergy that eye tear drops has not been enough and you develop infections ocassionaly if that is the case.

 

Just enough time to say I got balls of steel

 

10 minutes here in the UK (NHS). It varies and there are pros and cons to having a doctor that takes their time (appts always run late so you will be hanging around the waiting room longer).
With such a limited time it's a good idea to google your symptoms and go along with an idea of what you might have and what treatment you might be after (drugs, referral, other treatment, therapy etc), even if you get it wrong (they are the expert after all).
There have been some improvements in cutting down the number of pointless appts, as so many GP appts are for recurring issues or asking for referral letters to specialists etc - this sort of thing is better done by phone or email. So freeing up GP time for the people who need a proper examination.
Specialist doctors appointments are very leisurely - 30 mins or longer for a consultation alone - but you have to be referred by GP.
Of course we hace private healthcare here too, but nobody much uses it for routine appointments.