UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

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Who can identify the cheese chaser?

Jack

Hopefully the person pictured is not in their post-graft recuperation period. I found that headstands were best avoided for a few weeks....

Is that right that you should be able to get the same vision with lenses that you can get with the pinhole? Never seems to work that way with me. Always spend ages scratching around trying to read a few lines all of which float in and out of focus, have multiple images and sometimes disappear and re...

Yes, I cycled home after one appointment when I'd had dilating eye-drops put in and it was very unsettling. I also couldn't work (read computer screen) for a couple of hours. Don't remember anyone mentioning not to drive, but you certainly shouldn't!
Jack

Hey guys, Well I had my stitches adjusted last Wednesday, not the most pleasant experience of my life :) It was done in the theatre, not in front of a slit lamp like some of you have experienced. Apparently they have had too many people pass out in consulting rooms. Not pleasant having your eye forc...

Hi Johanna, Sorry to hear that you have KC but you have done the right thing to join this forum. I didn't join up until after I'd had a graft and I've been astonished at how much I've learnt about the condition that I hadn't found out from the medics treating me. If I'd been here first I'd have been...

Thanks guys, good to know it shouldn't be too long or painful
I won't have any trouble getting to the hospital as wll be cycling but all the other problems are possible
Was your sight noticeabley better afterwards?
Jack

Had my 6 week post-graft appointment today which the hospital were very insistent I had as scheduled even though I really wanted to be at the National Youth and Junior Duathlon Championships where my athletes were racing (they managed 1 gold, 2 silvers and a bronze medal without the benefit of my pr...

That doesn't make me English though
Jack

Yes, they are preservative free and until yesterday I'd been taking the two types 6 times a day. I was out of the country for the 10 days prior to Easter and as they ran out on Tuesday went to GP to get prescription. Discovered that the prescription was for the steroids only and the dosage was reduc...