UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

hi Stephen
Welcome to the forum

About time you joined us more contributions = more knowledge.

Age shouldnt come into it when considering options , more the needs of the individual patient at the time.

Good luck with your appointment and keep us all posted .

Mike

The MCR Group started on the road to what i hope will be a long and prosperous partnership with MREH. The meeting was very well attended, i counted 25 people in the room , this included our guest speakers and facilitators Dr Cindy Tromans KC specialist cosultant and Debbie Morley, pre and post op co...

HI everyone Well had my 12 week check up this morning, i have them roughly every 12 weeks because of the severity. Well my right eye , my "good eye" has recently suffered an abrasion episode which the consultant picked up on and confirmed, so she has lifted the lens slightly ie increased t...

Hmmmm without sounding stupid, could someone please explain to me the exact nature of hydrops and what it feels like. As a lot of you know already i am on the waiting list for a graft but have been warned that hydrops is quite likely or even worse a rupture of the cornea itself. In fact has anybody ...

Hi Abu

Welcome to the forum and the keratoconus family, you are right, this is a great place and we hope to hear much more of you.

mike

Hi Becky welcome to the forum. I cant comment on your hydrops as i havent had it and hopefully wont, keep your chin up and dont let KC rule your life, be proud of all your acheivements whatever they are, because with what we have everything is an accomplishment. take care and best wishes mike

Hi Steven Anne is coming up from London to help us Launch the Mcr Group and to give us a welcome talk and Cindy Tromans , head of dept will give a general talk on KC with a Q & A session. As it is the first meeting there will be plenty of getting to know each other as well. with regards to minut...

i only use my right eye now as my left is totally lens intolerant but i see 16 hrs wear time as normal. have worn rgp's for 23 yrs now. without the lenses in my vision is almost nothing, so to wear them for just an 8 hour shift for work and then have no life beyond that , well that would be really u...

well slightly different in my case. i have good corrected vision in my right eye but am now lens intolerant in my left, with the cornea being less than half normal thickness and apart from light and colours, no vision at all. I asked the question should i wait until my right eye was in the same posi...

Gareth

night manouvres huh

That could be so much fun, navigating by the stars and the moon ..............but which one?