UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

THank you for your comments guys, Now i just have to wait the 4 months until the next appointment! Ah well what can you do!

Hi Andrew,

On my second day of wear after around 4 hours, I had the "hot" feeling. My eyes were very dry and now that you mention it I have connected the dots and think you are correct! Could this be because I am not using any lubricant drops? and the eye is too dry also?

Thank you

DTee

Thanks for the detailed reponse, Gareth. You have been extremely helpful, as always. I gave the contacts another cleanand the irriation seems to have stopped. (I was just about ask you) As you mentioned is it ok to put lubricating drops whilst I have my contacts in? and which drops would you reccomm...

Hi Guys, As always for a bit of solid adivce, I see msyelf turning to all of you! I have recently been given a new set of hard contact lenses. I had lost the previous set after wearing them for a very short period of time. My right eye is worse then the left. Today is my third day of wearing them bu...

Thank you for your reply. I really appreciate the detailed responses, in relation to intacs. I would definitely like to keep up with your progress and see how it turns out. Will you still have to wear you contacts even after the intacs settle in? I also find that the double images/ghosting is the wo...

I had a few questions for you. I experience pretty much the same circumstances as you as far as the righ tand left eye are concerned. I am wondering how much the intacs cost, assuming you got this done privately!

Thanks

Hello All,

I would like you all to take a look at this:

http://www.fraunhofer.de/fhg/EN/press/p ... Topic3.jsp

I suffer from KC as you may have guessed but this gives me hope.. is this something KC sufferers will be able to benefit from?

Regards

DTee

Hey Guys, I thought I would come back and update everyone. First of all Thank you for all your suggestions. It was very comforting to know that I'm not the only one having these problems. I'm in my early 20's therefore its been quite difficult for me to deal with the condition, maybe the lack of wea...

Around a year ago, I found out i had KC. I didn't know what it was but soon found out in much more details. I was given gas permeable(sp?) hard lenses. Initially they were very uncomfortable so after about a week of trying them I gave up. More recently about a year onwards, I found that my vision ha...