UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Hi Sue, Glad to hear that your problems are subsiding. Still haven't managed to track anything down. A "Runtime error" is generally an error that is generated by the operating system or language that a program is written in... at "run time" - when the program is being used. This is opposed to the mo...

Hello Miko,

I've certainly not heard anything about KC being an indicator of a less-than-average lifespan...

Unless of course you consider that we're probably more likely than average to be run over by the bus we didn't see or some other lack-of-sight related accident

You're dead right about only doing it the once! My bathroom rule is to keep the different bottles on different shelves. It works well... until you go away and stay with friends for the weekend. All the bottles were in the same bag. I think your rule is better. I took about 30 minutes constantly drip...

Hi Bob, welcome to the forums. Is the ban on isopropyl alcohol in the states just for softperm cleaners, or for all lenses? I wonder if it's because of the risk of some of the alcohol being absorbed by the soft part of the lens. I was prescribed Miraflow by Moorfields for cleaning sclerals. Once (an...

I have exhausted the contact lens route (i think). Corneal graft may well not do me any good as I am told I may need contact lenses afterwards. Hi Drew, Have you tried scleral lenses? They seem to be the current "last resort" for KCers, I seem to go from something like 3/60 to seeing the third line...

I'm not sure that tiny bubbles are much of a problem, but I've read somewhere that the slightly larger bubbles can cause local dehydration of the cornea, and will make the lens uncomfortable sooner.

Hi Craig. I remember reading somewhere that a disease is something that can be cured; whereas a condition is something that cannot. Now, I'm even less sure about the classification of KC if this is true, as KC can be cured, sort-of, by means of a graft. Fitting contact lenses etc. is just a way of c...

Interesting about free eye tests: I now get free NHS eye tests; but only (it seems) because of my current need to wear specs over a scleral lens. According to my optician, that counts as "complex", and a complex prescription means free eye tests. I just sign the form that the (excellent) optician pu...

Hi Adam, welcome to the group. You're right, it is very odd that different NHS hospitals charge differently. I think someone was going to contact Alan Milburn MP about this - it may be worth contacting your own MP. Certainly, Moorfields only charges the "standard NHS cost" of I think £42 per lens f...

Bruce,

If you have the fenestrations, does that mean that your lens is not made out of RGP material?