UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Hi everyone, I'm from Italy and I have already registered to this forum some years ago for asking infos about kerasoft. Now I'm getting a 1st level Degree in Optometry (I think I will end up in March 2012) , and my final discussion will be about aberration study with different types of contact lense...

Kiaz, I know what you mean about having contacts in all day and grabbing a beer! - By 4pm my eyes are usually screaming out for me to remove the lenses. I often have to stop half way down a mountain to re-seat the RGP lens in my left eye and apply drops. I also find it real difficult to focus when ...

I hope to find someone here able to check out if there's something wrong .. do you think that an eye doctor could be able ? Here optometrists are tipically lens-sellers, so theyr primary interest is to sell lenses, and often they do anything possibile to demostrate their lenses are better than the o...

Hi Lynn thanks for answering . The lens I'm wearing is this one and it's handmade in a laboratory in Rome : http://www.contactflex.it/id_scheda_lente.asp?id=15 ... there's no translation in english but however I can try to translate if you want more details (it's not so easy because it's quite techn...

Hi there, I'm writing here again because in Italy I'm not understood and because I think that in the UK soft KC lenses are more known and used. I wrote some posts here about a year ago .. I was searching for a KC contact lens compatible with my lifestyle: I'm a very sportive person, I was training t...

Hi Lynn, thanks very much for the explanation. With the Kerasoft I read 5-6/10 ... meanwhile with the rose K I got 7-8/10 . With glassess or daily disposable soft lenses .... less than 1/10 with my bad eye ... Ok, I understand that fitting a rgp is something totally different from fitting the keraso...

Hi everyone, I posted here some times ago asking about kerasoft lenses ... now I have one kerasoft lens in my left unlucky eye and ... well it works quite well, even if vision is a bit lower compared to what I got with a Rose K rgp by another fitter. However when I went to the italian dealer to try ...

Well, the day after tomorrow I'll go in Milan to try these kerasoft. Meanwhile, I decided to follow the "reverse piggyback" way too, first of all because it's better to have an opthometrist near home, then because I would like to comapare the kerasoft with a standard RGP. So friday I went ...

Here in Italy C3R is cosidered safe by most docotrs if thickness > 400 microns. However in Switzerland and Germany they do C3R even with thinner corneas (I know an Italian guy who has 360 thinckness and went to Dresden to do C3R and seems to be ok)
I'm waiting for doing it here in Italy.

Well, I have reserved my kerasoft trial for next tuesday .
I hope it will be working for me .... if not I'll try something else.