UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Hi Lynn, its been a good read, never knew you had a website, its very informative:thumbsup:

Is there any more updates or progress reports on 'Marks' condition?

Sounds like you guys have had a tough time. Hope it works out well for your son, and possibly as some have stated, sometimes after keraflex it takes longer for eye to heal and see better results, I hope thats the case with your son.

hi sportix, did your son have keraflex done in both eyes or just the one? Also why did they wait one month before having the crosslinking done? By the research and asking around i did, i found they usually do the crosslinking straight after or week later the keraflex treatment. Due to your son being...

cannot stress, how good people like yourself are Anna in helping others!! Its amazing how people can open up to helping someone they never met. Much respect!

lol that does make sense Lynn. i thought there might be a KC gene lol. If that was the case we'd all be cued up now having them removed LOL.

Luciano, Thanks for the reply, that was very good. How many weeks has it been now since the keraflex procedure? also do you wear soft lenses now to correct vision?

Also others who have had keraflex done, your experiences with keraflex would be real good to hear and helpful for all.

Upholstery, can be dusty and dry, very difficult for me, with suffering with dry eyes as well, im at the stage where it as all become unbearable, cant live with contact lenses and cant live without them, waiting now to see what the dr sugests next week, even if i have a graft i have been told i wou...

Good response there Chris. C'mon guys and girls, whats your situation for work life and what do you think? There have been a fair few views on this thread but not many responses, start typing peeps. At the moment in my workplace, i just tell people i have terrible eyesight and use contact lenses to ...

Fantastic news that!
In future, could this possibly mean, if any of us hear have children, we can have their genes checked, and if they have the KC genes they can be worked on in future so they dont have to go through KC?

Hey Peeps, I have keratoconus which is at a moderate stage, corrected with RGP lenses which does a pretty good job and brings my eyesight almost upto scratch. I work in the mechanical engineering sector, working with my hands doing precision engineering working to tolerances of 0.1mm and below going...