UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Welcome along to the world of Keratoconus! The NHS system does a great job but there are times when it can very frustrating when dealing with KC At Moorfields St George you pay £54 per RGP lens, around £110 all in with postage. If the fit of the lens is then changed at a later date the replacement w...

I'm 25, had crosslinking in my left eye a year ago. Eye has been fine since and no change. Wish it had been offered sooner as my right eye is too far gone now and is reaching the point of being too steep for a lens. If diagnosed at an earlier stage and given crosslinking i could perhaps have saved m...

Just back from Moorfields, they couldnt see anything wrong with my eyes outside of the usual scarring and have booked me in for 6 months time However something is definitely up, my eye and area around my eye and upper jaw get a numb, pins and needles feeling when i wear a lens that makes it impossib...

hmm pretty sure mine is the other way round, was hopeful i had solved why my eye is getting so sore the last week!!

oh well only a month or so to wait for an urgent appointment to find out why

is this the case for rose k lenses?

ive been having some pain in right eye (get a red streak out of pupil) just checked and i have been wearing the blue lens in my right eye

i have just switched them round, feels a little odd....see how it goes i guess

i'm 24 and had this procedure last may the procedure itself was uneventful, however the following 24 - 48 hours after were quite painful for me, having not had many hospital procedures in my lifetime it was easily the most pain i've had to endure, even with all the drops and painkillers it felt like...

i have received rgps for free on the nhs for the last few years, unfortunately recently something has changed (or the hospital i am seen at had bad admin) and they now ask for £55 per lens, which was a bit of a shock at first. I don't have that much of an issue with it now, but with a right eye that...

is this at the tooting location or central?

i remove my piggybacks by gently pulling my eyelid into a slit shape and blinking, generally works everytime with both with no hassle for both rgp and soft lens

Had a proper follow-up appointment at the corneal clinic to my cxl carried out at Moorfields in May (first follow up was with a retina specialist, admin error!) I was informed that CXL is no longer available on the NHS and that i had mine done just before this decision was made! I understand that lo...