UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Thanks for your answers. Does anyone know how i can obtain my medical notes as i intent to see someone private for a second opinion. I can't afford it, but i keep recieving contradictory opinions at my eye hospital that i'm not sure where i stand. Piggy backs in my graft eye don't fit because of the...

16 months post graft, All my stiches are out(well the knot fell behind the eye and is apparently working its way back out) and i`m trialling a new hard lens for the eye. the only problem is I can only wear it for a hort time, its very painful and my eyelid swells slighty the next day. and causes me ...

Hello again, Its been a while since I was on here last but I really could do with some advice. I`m Breaking in my new lens( A Jumbo hard one) in in my graft eye.Its a long time since I wore any sort of lens in that eye. and I just can`t get used to the pain. also although I am now seeing in, Er well...

Thanks everyone.

Thanks John,
I feel like someone who had too much to drink at the office party going back to work on the following Monday. I just want my life back again. I promise to remain calm (well quite calm) from now on.

hi guys, now ive calmed down abit i do wish i hadnt put my mob no on the post but just so down... maybe one of the guys who run the site can erase it.

After my last appointment when they told me my graft eye was increasing in astigmatism I received my next appointment and an additional appointment for Orthoptics on a different floor. What does this mean? I still have all but 8 stitches still in. they took out 4 when my sight was ok, it Is now very...

I used to get the same thing. this will go when you get your lens.

I watched a programme on bbc3 on it the other night and have decided to give it a go. 500 calories a day, no sweat! im hopelessly addicted to pain killers now anyway. my wife refuses to join me in my quest, but is five months pregnant so maybe not such a good idea.Seriously though, this has to be ba...

Andrew, Recently had stitches out of transplant eye and vision has got worse. but, in a weird twist of fate they have fitted me with a piggyback in the other eye that is working beautifly. I forgot how beautiful the world is,I`m amazed by it. how can people rush round and ignore it.Even the lines in...