UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Fitting appointments

Fittings of keratoconus normally require several visits over a period of 2 to 8 weeks. More difficult cases can take 3 to 9 months for a complete fittin

Yeah? try 6 years and still no luck!

i want to try these but have been waiting over a year now for a moorfields appointment,is there any other way of getting them?

Finding your way around in the dark by using your tongue is not a new thing,i've been doing it for years,works a treat

Almost everytime i read anytihng on here about RGP's it's good news sight wise,i wish i could wear them but alas there isn't a pair known to man that would fit me,apparently!?!?!

The second paragraph in pipers post is one of the best ive read in ages,well done mate

I think it's a fairly good idea,and another idea is to put as much information in simplified 'laymans' terms. Without wishing to cause offence,a lot of the medical information on here seems to have been written by middle aged,middle class,higher educated posters,and usually at some length,not all pe...

I've nwo been waiting for a moorfields appointment for a year,so they can shove their hospital up their a**e,i'd be better off in a hole in the ground

does it really take THAT long before you can hit the weights again??

What about other exercise?

Every time i hear somethng like this i get more and more reluctant about having the op

I spend more or less every day on the beach for 6-9 months of the year and generally don't have a problem with just wearing the lenses,the trouble i find is when youve always got sand on your hands and autmoatically go to scratch itches on your face/eyelids etc. I always have water with me anyway du...

Hi Its funny that you should post on this subject as I was talking to an Optician friend yesterday on this very subject. He told me that when he was at University and learning about KC, one of the things that came up in lectures was the so called "KC Personality." He mentioned that KC per...