UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

First all I would like to comment that Keratoconus is a lifetime battle . It ruined my life and my career, and I'm NOT overreacting. It always seems to me that physicians are too ignorant of irregular astigmatism and high order aberrations (HOA). For once, my physician who performed my the corneal ...

jeijma822, I am from the U.S. (Texas) and one of the very few optometrists who post in this forum. I have been able to help a number of KC patients with unique and effective optical technology delivered via a scleral-type lens. It is called wavefront-guided contact lenses. I just finished with anoth...

Hey, I sympathize, but have you searched this forum for advice? Please look up posts by ax628 and AirlineDreams who both have found relief from their night vision disturbances with special scleral lenses.

"Clean the windscreen"? Indeed!

I never cease to be appalled by some of the things I hear. I won't speak for others, just for myself. I have spent quite a few years developing a non-rotational scleral lens. This is a pre-requisite for the correction of astigmatism with any lens. Most of the cases I treat have some form of astigmat...

Sorry to hear about your disappointment, but surely this can't be true. Why did the lens fail? Was it because of some induced astigmatism? If that is the case then you and everybody else surely need to know that scleral lenses do exist that can correct every type of astigmatism.

I saw my UK visitor for the last time today. He seemed very happy with his vision. He has submitted a registration form with this forum, so I am hoping he will at least validate my story. We were essentially finished within the first 5 days, but he had originally booked a two week stay, and so he ga...

Last week saw yet another keratoconus patient from the UK. He said he found me on some forum. He's one of those who finds help on a forum but doesn't post. So I'll post for him. He got his KC symptoms after LASIK. He tried all the usual contact lenses, and finally got cross-linking. He came to me we...

James makes a good point. Not withstanding that, rigid lenses - that includes sclerals - almost always trump soft lenses in terms of visual quality. I've seen them all and measured them all, and those instances to the contrary are relatively rare. I think the cases where they might be comparable wou...

I am posting the link for a patient who started out with keratoconus, had a penetrating graft, and then had LASIK over the graft. After seeing well for a number of years, his vision suddenly started to deteriorate. None could help him where he lived in Dubai. Since he could well afford to travel, he...

Amarpreet, I have been using wavefront technology in scleral lenses for several years now for all sorts of conditions, including corneal transplants. In fact, just this week a patient with keratoconus and penetrating graft returned after 2 years for a lens upgrade. He lives in Dubai. His case study ...