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I guessed so, as what you are describing is often how you know you have got to the end of the road with RGPs. Have sclera lenses been suggested? They may buy you a few more years without needing surgery and improve your vision significantly. That assumes there is no other medical/surgical reason for...

What type of lens have you been wearing in that eye?

That's brilliant news. I am pleased for you it has worked out as you hoped. Keep us updated and do ask if you have any more questions.

Graham

I've been one of those long-term scleral wearers. Both before graft and after. Initially, I wore them because we could not get a good fit with regular RGP lenses, they would even flick out at times. I needed correction after graft and scleral lenses have the advantage of 'vaulting' over the graft If...

I had a cataract develop after my first graft (which is not uncommon), this was removed about 12 months after the graft. My other eye already had an early cataract before my graft. In that case the second cataract was removed 12 weeks after the graft operation. It can be done safely by an experience...

Not sure if you are being seen by the ophthalmic department of a general hospital or a specialist eye hospital? As Anne has said many of us have worn lenses over the top of a graft. Most lens types are possible, but I know that at Moorfields the preferred choice is a scleral lens as they vault over ...

If you want maximum protection when others around you are not mask wearing you need to wear an FFP3 mask https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFP_standards There is an argument made by my GP, who is very cautious, that excessive long-term mask wearing when you don't need to, could increase your vulnerabi...

I think most of us who have been prescribed sclerals from Moorfields are taught to insert and remove them without using a plunger. Pardon the pun, when I swapped I didn't look back, and drove a 200 mile round trip without all the ghosting and flashes I had before, let alone the fear of the RGPs fall...

I think most of us who have been prescribed sclerals from Moorfields are taught to insert and remove them without using a plunger. Pardon the pun, when I swapped I didn't look back, and drove a 200 mile round trip without all the ghosting and flashes I had before, let alone the fear of the RGPs fall...

Yes, but it does depend whether your Optom has experience of fitting them.