UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

i guess thats got us all beat then hehe

hi pat from my own experience of rgp lenses and fits that you would need an abacus to count, it sounds like a fit problem. if your eyes are drying out that fast that you need to constantly re-wet them it sounds like it might be tight on your eye. what this means is that your own tears and oxygen are...

hey there
i work for asda, so i get discount as well hehe.
does that count as the cheapest?
mike

hi donna i agree with everything that has been said. try and go with an open mind and enjoy the experience. i go to manchester royal eye hospital which is a teaching hospital and i recall many occasions where i faced a line up of many enthusistic students all dying to take a peek at my eyes , it can...

hi joe john smiths advice is absolutely right. just to re-iterate, your first experience of trying a lens and your reaction to it is completely normal. it does take a period of time for your eyes to adjust to having the lens but i advise building your wear time up in baby steps ie 1/2 hour increment...

hi stace i remember very clearly the panic i felt the first time i wore contacts and i had exactly the same fainting experience. that was some 22 yrs ago but i still remember that first pain like it was today, and i also ended up having to sit a wheelchair for that first half hour or so. back then l...

had a disturbing thought today will definately have to explain the pro's and cons to work, following the hospitals view that a rupture or hydrops is highly likely. i wouldnt want some heroic first aider rushing to my aid with a bit of string and some sticking plaster to try and fix me up should thie...

hi chris well done on your early progress remember though that it is early yet and as eager as i am sure you are dont overdo yourself, from my understanding so far this is a major procedure we have to go through and its a miracle that they can do it at all thank god they can :P but patience is a vir...

hi john thanks for your comment unfortunately it is definately KC. it has been for 22 years now, i wish whole heartedly that it wasnt, but it is. what the surgeon has said (mr brahma) is that over the last 2 years it has become very unstable and is very active at present , which is a bit of a worry ...

:shock: hi every one ok so i have now had my appointments and the news :roll: my right eye as known is very strong as yet remaining sable though taking the full strain. my left however is kaputt i was treated very well by the staff and a very nice lady called debbie did a topography that revealed th...