UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Hi Jo I had a transplant done 2 years ago on wednesday. It did feel very wierd at the time that i had someone elses cornea, i used to joke that it might be from a girl and i might start drinking barcadi breezers as a result, but so far so good :-) Initially i was off work for 7 weeks recovering, the...

Hi I had mine out in 2 stages. when the first lot were done, i was in theatre, it was uncomfortable but not painful as i had anaesthetic drops put in, i had a clamp put in to hold my eye open, and a shield (cloth with sticky back plastic) stuck to my eyelids with a slit cut in it, an injection of so...

Hi This morning i have been prescribed glasses to go with my scleral lens. The explanation given was that my scleral lens fixes the irregular astigmatism in my cornea, however i also have an astigmatism in the internal lens of my eye (the one that gets cateracts). The glasses fix the 'internal astig...

Thats good news.

I am eager to learn more about the procedure. Can you tell me what they did? where they made cuts, how many? how deep? etc...

I have to wear glasses at a -6 CYL which is quite high, so high that the glasses give me a headache

Tom

Hi Steve.

Hope it went well today.

Can i ask how much astigmatism you had, and how much your doctor thinks he can reduce it by?
I have quite a high astigmatism post op, and may be having this done at some point too.

Cheers
Tom

I know what you mean about fitting for glasses. I recently had the same but the optician gave up in the end and asked me to control the eyeglass machine. Its because glasses for KC sufferers are not just about correcting the main astigmatism, it is a very subjective thing for us to get the cyl power...

I recently went to watch a tv show being filmed.
I told one of the people that i have keratoconus to see if next time i can get a close seat........
We ended up that night on the front row and WILL be on TV on the Stephen K Amos show sometime in September

I think that stress definately affects the eyes. My first hydrops happened the day after i moved house. My second hydrops in the same eye happened a year later when moving house and a week after starting a new job. My third hydrops happened exactly a year leter when moving house again. Decided not t...

Tweed might be a good look for me!

I had that recently.
A new scleral lens after 6 months without any vision from that eye, my whole field of vision looked like i was looking through a heat haze
I think its the brain trying to get used to the signals again. It went away for me quite quickly
Good luck