UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

HI! everyone!! I have just got in from having the fitting!! I think it when really well and my opto was really pleased with the way i took to the lenses. But they are not quite right yet they need to be flatter and they both need to be stronger. but it was not far off. it took about ten minutes befo...

Neil Thats my biggest worry - badly fitting lenses that will make more problems! How much has your KC progressed in the 20 years you have had it? Is it differnt for everyone's KC to proggress at different rates? As im only 22 is this the time for KC to really start getting worse? Im sure these quest...

i would liked to have met Mich Hepburn the man was a genius.
OR lilly munster

Cheers for the info! I haven't been referred anywhere it was not mentioned. i think i have a plan now, get on to my GP,see a specilalist, try to get on the hospital list? is that right? It was an optician that diagnosed the condition. he then mentioned that most optictians would have just sent me to...

Yeah im paying just under £300 for my first two. BUT its only bin one day scince i found out about the condtion. I dont really want to be waiting around for the hospital. hopefully i will be ok in a few weeks just need to wear my glasses untill i get it sorted i suppose. With any luck i will only ne...

different lenses??? will i have to spend more money?? on more than one pair??
You can get them through the hospital???
I think i ought to have done more reasearch!!!
I really hate losing my baseball cap as well !!!

Goood luck at the fitting!!! im dreading my first time!!!

Hi everyone i was told yesterday by my optician that i have Keratoconus. Then gave me the most unpleasent eye exam I have ever had, by putting some lenses on my eyes. I have never had this done before and it was horrible, especialy with the eye drops that He used. What puzzled me was i have been thr...