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- Mon 14 Jun 2004 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: corneal graft advice
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10017
Hi Sophie, I know that others will disagree with me, but I feel that if the time has genuinely arrived for a graft, you shouldn't postpone it. At the moment, you still have a "good eye" that will keep you working whilst your grafted eye goes through the healing, changing process. My graft came at a ...
- Sat 05 Jun 2004 11:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: Rose K, Softperm and Schleral lenses?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3875
Hi Damien, Welcome to the forum! "Rose K" lenses are basically rigid gas permeable lenses for people with KC. I'm not quite sure what's special about them, but I certainly found them much more comfortable than "regular" RGP lenses. "Scleral" lenses are simply huge. Because they sit on the insensitiv...
- Wed 02 Jun 2004 11:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: Will it get worse ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2427
Hi Nathan, and welcome to the group. Firstly, you don't need to panic. Categorically, you will not go blind with KC. Treatment tends to progresss along the lines of glasses, RGP contact lenses, (sometimes: a different sort of RGP lens, maybe "Rose K" or "softperm") scleral lenses and in the most sev...
- Mon 17 May 2004 10:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: contact lens cases
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3996
- Tue 11 May 2004 12:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: pain
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8431
Hello Janet, The difficult answer for you is that everyone with Keratoconus seems to be different. However, I've not come across anyone who claims that their KC is actually painful. If a hydrops episode develops, that can be very painful apparently; but that does clear up either on its own after a f...
- Sat 08 May 2004 10:12 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: Biometrics (?) security
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3712
- Sat 08 May 2004 1:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: Is this a cause of KC?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3750
Is this a cause of KC?
I just came across this on an old BBC News story: Around 3,000 corneal grafts are carried out every year. Many are needed because of keratoconus, a disorder of the shape of the cornea, or corneal disease, often caused by cataract surgery. Does anyone know if this is true - do people contract KC foll...
- Thu 06 May 2004 1:12 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: Biometrics (?) security
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3712
- Wed 05 May 2004 12:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: KC & Diabetes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4199
- Sat 24 Apr 2004 11:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Forum
- Topic: Only 16
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7032