UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I ‘missed’ an appointment with External Disease clinic a couple of weeks ago. The first I knew about it was a copy letter to my GP telling him they had closed my referral because of DNA. An email, copying in PALS seemed to do the trick, but it doesn’t feel good to complain when my eye sight is in th...

It could be dry eye symptoms, especially if you have been working on the computer as you will blink less when staring at a screen. I use Hylo forte when wearing sclerals.

I have just taken my scleral lens out to clean it and it broke into 3 pieces as I was rubbing it. Arrrrrgh!

I have only had it about 18 months. How long have other people’s scleral lenses lasted?

Life has just got a whole lot more complicated.

I had increasing pain when wearing scleral lenses - felt like it was in my sinuses - until one of the Optomotrists at Moorfields spotted that the edge of the lenses were restricting blood flow in the small capillaries in my eye. The lenses had otherwise looked like a good fit and he said that they w...

Hi Darren. I was advised by staff at Moorfields to use a saline solution with as low a preservative content as possible to avoid damage to the surface of the cornea in the long term - and Amidose is the lowest going. I think the conditioning solutions are for lens storage. I was advised to use Quatt...

I am having discomfort from one of my contact lenses which means I am struggling to wear it for long but my follow up appointment at Moorfields is still several weeks away. I tried ringing the clinic to ask for an earlier appointment but was offered a slot a month after the appointment I already hav...