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by GarethB
Mon 20 Sep 2004 10:36 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: 18 years KC - no advice
Replies: 2
Views: 2847

I have had KC for about the same length of time and like you had problems with lens fitting, but I did have a good optician when I lived in Durham. Not told much then and the only people I knew with KC were the ones my specialist asked me to talk to once I had my first graft in 1989, the second was ...
by GarethB
Tue 14 Sep 2004 10:39 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: working after left cornea transplant
Replies: 5
Views: 3720

After my graft, I worked with coal! Not large lumps, but pulverised coal for powerstations, I also worked with sewage to see how best to make it suitable to burn in power stations. I found that as long as I wore box gogles instead of normal safety glasses which I gues you use already in a saw mill, ...
by GarethB
Mon 13 Sep 2004 10:59 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: I have a Down syndrom son who has been diagnosed
Replies: 8
Views: 7222

I have had two corneal grafts, the first in 1989 and the second in 1990. When I had the first done, I was in hospital for about a week, but I beleive this is no longer considered necessary to be in for quite so long. The operation itself did not appear to me to take long at all, when I came round, I...
by GarethB
Tue 31 Aug 2004 2:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: Artificial Corneas
Replies: 7
Views: 6098

I work in the healthcare R&D business nad it is not always the 'powers that be' that are slow to introduce new technology, it is the regulaters such as the FDA, MHRA and MCA etc. Before these things can be released, there are all sorts of trials and as this is a foreign body being placed in the ...
by GarethB
Thu 26 Aug 2004 9:56 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: Is there a quick solution?
Replies: 3
Views: 3351

Dont't think so, ultralase is more for shor sighted. In KC the cornea is thinning so giving rise to the astigmatism. My understanding is the laser causes the refractive properties of the cornea to change. When I went short sighted some time after my graft I enquiered about the laser treatment and wa...
by GarethB
Sat 21 Aug 2004 4:15 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: New RGP: Fuzzy, cloudiness, blurs...
Replies: 5
Views: 4762

James, If you have gone some time without seeing properly, it takes the brain a while to learn to compensate again, I am going back a few years, but when I first got KC I had headaches because it was hard to see and got used to it. The headaches started agin when I got lenses and I did see double fo...
by GarethB
Sat 21 Aug 2004 4:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: Update
Replies: 6
Views: 5257

Hi Susan, This will make you laugh, when I went to University, I was still waiting for grafts so commenced and enviromental microbiology degree unable to see much at all. I had got to the point where even contacts would not help. Not a common occurance as far as I ma aware. Have now gone 14 years si...
by GarethB
Sat 21 Aug 2004 3:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: new member
Replies: 4
Views: 3955

Can not add much to what has been said, it does depend how well you take to the graft and the skill of the surgeon. 1) I was back driving within 4 weeks of my first graft, mainly while I got used to seeing with just one eye. Got the OK from the surgeon first. 2) I have had two grafts, the right eye ...
by GarethB
Sat 21 Aug 2004 3:44 pm
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: Driving with KC
Replies: 9
Views: 6783

I went under a self imposed driving ban prior to my grafts in 1989 and have found that it has never been necessary to declare that I once had eye problems. The sight in my right eye has deteriorated again (but not the grafted part of the eye), the left graft is still fine and was told I was OK to dr...

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