UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Lynn, Thanks for your reply. When my eyesight became a challenge in 1990 the optician who first fitted me used to keep sending lenses back to the lab to be adjusted - and he commented that if only the lab was next door it would have been so much easier. Whereas the optician in 1996 was using fitting...

I don't use protein tablets very often either. I only use them if I think they need a good clean - say just before a check-up! Or, on close inspection (my near point is 2 inches with right eye) they don't look clean after normal cleaning. These days cleaners are a lot better than thirty years ago wh...

I've been lurking - so as someone who lurks I thought I had better explain myself. I have been a member of the forum for some time but this is only my second post. I've worn corneal contact lenses for over thirty years - the first 15 years for vanity, myopia and possibly mild astigmatism. In 1990 I ...

Tim, Just a thought, are your eyes more light sensitive than usual? If so have you done any of the following? Got a new lens, got something trapped under a lens which has irritated it, changed solutions, over worn a lens? A few years ago my right eye was very sensitive - I was down to twenty minutes...