UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I appreciate that people have strong views on this topic, but that does not justify personal attacks on forum members. An exchange of views should be possible while still showing respect to one another and accepting that there will be different opinions. Our conference on Saturday will include a pre...

Hi Abu and welcome to the forum! Have you sent me a booking form for the conference? I haven't got one from you (though of course Abu may be an alias and it's come in under another name). But if I haven't already sent you confirmation that you have a place booked, then please e-mail me on anne@kerat...

Apologies to the Northerners and Scots that we're back in London this year (the 2005 conference was in Birmingham). We'll try to head north for 2009!
Anne

Steven - the meeting should end at around 8. I can talk a bit about how other regional groups run at the meeting, but this will be the Manchester group, so how it develops is up to you good people up in the North West and what you want from it! I'm sure others will tell you that just being able to m...

Just to add that every hospital and Primary Care Trust now has a Patients Advice and Liaison Service (PALS). This (quoting from a PALS website) is 'a confidential service dealing with questions or concerns regarding care or treatment from NHS services'. So this is probably the first port of call for...

Hi Rick and welcome to the forum. I suspect we're all different in how quickly we recover after a graft and how quickly we recover from the effects of anaesthetic. Some people here seem to have been up and about very quickly, others have taken several weeks to feel properly human again! So I think y...

Emma - 2 days is very early and it is quite normal to feel a bit knocked out after the op. I felt sleepy for about 2 weeks after my first graft (for the second one, I think they reduced the dose of anaesthetic and I wasn't quite such a zombie then). I didn't have problems opening my eye, but it did ...

A reminder of the conditions that all forum users sign up and agree to on entering the forum and especially that entries 'do not offer opinions on medical competence in any way'. In the past few months there have been a couple of posts in which derogatory remarks have been made about individual heal...

Hi Dan and welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear that your corneal graft hasn't given you better vision. But most people still need correction after a graft (some manage with specs, others need contact lenses to get reasonable vision). Have sceral lenses ever been tried for your grafted eye? Some peop...

It's a friend of one of our members. He won! And he's raising money for the KC Group. Perhaps we could have a competition for the whackiest way to raise money for KC.
Anne