UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

No, pinhole glasses won’t give an indication of the type of contact lenses required. The shape of your cornea will indicate the type of lens required. The lens is fitted so that the liquid behind the contact lens effectively neutralises the irregular cornea surface with the regular rigid contact len...

The ghosting will be due to astigmatism. Regular astigmatism can be corrected with glasses but irregular astigmatism caused by keratoconus is usually better corrected with contact lenses. It can take a few fitting appointments to optimise the contact lens fit and prescription. It's certainly worthwh...

Hi Kezz, Welcome to the forum. It's good to hear that cxl has halted the progression of keratoconus in your right eye. It is not unusual for cxl to be extremely painful for the first coupl of days, but at last month's KC group meeting, where we discussed cxl, people who had had the procedure were pl...

I always choose a morning appointment for my eye test and go without my lenses in. This is so that any prescription will be prescribed for as my eyes are on a typical morning as this is when I usually wear my glasses. I know that there are other people who prefer to go late in the day so that their ...

In my case I've not seen an ophthalmologist since 1997 when I was told "Yes, you do have keratoconus" and sent to the contact lens department. Prior to that I'd been able to get my contact lenses on the high street. So my eye check is with the high street optometrists. Who eventually did m...

Many years ago, when I was first referred to the hospital contact lens service, I thought I no longer needed high street eye tests. The reason I thought this was that as glasses were of no use to me why did I need an eye test for glasses? My thinking was not unlike people who don't wear glasses, and...

The NHS charge for contact lenses is £60.75 per lens.

Hi Happy, I agree with space_cadet this is not a good idea. Apart from there being a risk of getting an infection from a second hand lens, any second hand lens is extremely unlikely to fit so if you did get it in you'd be desperate to get it out again as it would probably be extremely uncomfortable....

The advice from the Association of Optometrists is: "It’s safer not to swim in contact lenses at all; if you absolutely have to, the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) advice for swimmers is to use daily disposable lenses with a well-sealed pair of goggles or mask and discard the lenses im...

There are lots of different types of contact lenses that can be prescribed for keratoconus and it might not be that all sclerals are better that all RGPs for your eyes. It could be that the improvement in vision is due to the fact that your current lenses are old and the prescription needs to be upd...