UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I did ask, I had an appointment with the optometerist at the clinic regarding visual aids about a month ago. she was not sure if scleral lenses would be suitable for me but said she would phone/email someone else for more information and let me know in 3 months (my next appt with her). However she a...

I have no useful vision in right eye and 6/18 in left eye corrected with glasses. I was just wondering as I got new glasses about 4 weeks ago and did notice a very slight improvement but I suspect my prescription has changed already as I am struggling a bit again. Thanks for your input.

Pam

How bad does your eyesight have to become before contact lens become an option rather than glasses?

Pam

Hi I have been following this thread wirh interest. I have KG and wear glasses 6/18 left eye corrected; finger count right eye. The KG in my right eye is advanced and causes me much irritation, eye weeps daily now and the cornea perforated last year. I have to wear solar shields over the top of my g...

Hi, my nameis Pam and I live in Aberdeen. I was diagnosed with keratoglobus a numberof years ago. Just wanted to say hi to everyone in the Scottish Group. So "Hi everyone in the Scottish Group" :-)

BONES !!!! (maybe that's just in my experience, OUCH).

Hi Anne, thanks I will email you for a copy of the newsletter. I live in Aberdeen and attend the eye clinic here (ARI). I never heard of these lenses before until Andrew and Lynn mentioned them, I will ask about them in June when I have my next appt. I don't hold out much hope of being referred to a...

Thanks Andrew and Lynn, I have the eye clinic again at the start of June. I will ask, see what they say, though it is not actually the Consultant I am meeting with this time but someone about visual aids. Thank-you for the information.

Hi, I don't know what scleral lens are to be honest. No one has ever mentioned them to me as an option. I have always been told contacts are not an option for me. Consultant once tried a bandage contact lens after an op when my cornea perforated but it would not stay in at all. I wear glasses and ha...

Hi, new to this so if im putting this post in wrong place apologies. I don't have KC I have a similar condition though called keratoglobus. I have read some of the posts in the forum and realised how similar both conditions are. I don't know of any forums specifically for my eye condition, not reall...