UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I'm not sure off the top of my head but from testing my eyesight 10 minutes before the CXL then 2 weeks later I was able to read 2 lines smaller. So there is already an improvement, I've been prescribed glasses and in my appeal denial message I was told my eye sight met the standards, it was just t...

Yeah I've come to realise it is a bit too soon, If that's the case just give it a little more time but still have a chance then i am fine with that, I'm 25 so theres one thing going for me. Just gives me more time to prepare for it and I'll try once again at the 6 month mark. So it wouldn't be wort...

Hi, I just had my appeal on my left eye keratoconus denied today even though my eyesight met the minimum standards for the british army, I recieved cross linking surgery 2 months ago, eyesight has slightly improved, right eye is perfect unaided and left eye is perfect with glasses, I will appeal th...

Hello all, Its been a few months since this post, and I've just had a review of my eyes 8 months post-treatment. Amazingly my left eye is 6/6 and my right is 6/7.5 uncorrected, which is a pretty great result off the back of CXL. I'm aware of how lucky I am to have had such positive results after tre...

Hello all, I've just registered today, and I have KC in both eyes. I've undergone CXL and PRK, and my eyesight before surgery was 6/15 and 6/12, and one week after surgery was 6/12 and 6/6. I was medically discharged from the Royal Marines in December last year, and I am currently launching a case t...