UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

go easy for the first 6 weeks and on heavy lifting for a few months

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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/ta ... &cid=fb_na

Hi Andy, no apologies needed for struggling and feeling low, most of us do at different points, it is frightening. I've been an RGP wearer for all my adult life and I've never had an infection (and I use makeup). Just be scrupulous with hand washing and touching your eyes, cleaning your lens, rinsin...

wishing you well

wishing you well Sheila

I'm so sorry it's a nightmare isn't it. My RGP's usually take 2 weeks, like Lia I keep the ones as a back up spare and I also buy another pair as a further back up so that I always have 2 spare sets.

Many thanks Anne, I worry so much about people in the lowest income bracket because I fear they might use tap water instead of saline, or be faced with the stark choice of not seeing well or choosing a bottle of cleaning solution over dinner. 'Solution bank' is one immediate stop-gap solution, I'd b...

Please would you consider writing a letter to Moorfields (and as a template members could use for other eye hospitals) to ask them to allow patients to set up a saline/lens solution 'bank', like a food bank but for lens solutions and saline? The rationale for this would be the following - people in ...

I suggested it to Moorfields, they failed to take up the idea

This is why registration needs to change to cover variable partial sight and everyone varies regarding impact but accessing support (not solely financial) is not that easy now as most things are very short term. There is an issue here for people who might be sick/disabled in other ways and in receip...