UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Thank you all! I hope on wednesday they will find big red areas on their screen, because if they don't that will probably mean the inner layers of the cornea are messed up, leaving, to my knowledge a very low amount of things to cure this.

Hi, I guess there might be one or two that remember my story, well maybe not :P So that was err here: http://www.keratoconus-group.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3410 Since then I again have been to numerous doctors which all tell me, it's the astigmatism, deal with it. So I went on my own to ...

Hey Pat! I don't know what to say really, looks like we sit in the same boat :P If I would try contacts would that help to diagnose poteria KC? If lenses would not improve or totally remove double wouldn't that mean that the irregularities of the cornea are indeed taking place inside it? Meaning tha...

I wonder if a transformation to a were-wolf would mean a temporary solution to KC... Now when walking along outside at night e.g from the cinema to the pub besides all the annoying light effects my eyes would start to water like crazy ! Which is nice at first because my eyes are usually very dry but...

I don't know to be honest, they did the topography of the cornea and then widened the pupils with these drops to have a look at the eye "background" Hintergrund as they call it here. After everything I was told that it is not keratokonus and there is no reason to suspect anything else, err...

Very interesting, thanks for sharing that. I still get to 100% with my glasses. I will mention this to my doc IF my condition gets worse. I would like to sum up my symptoms one more time in more detail: 1.Dry Eye (I take up to 8 drops of something called HYLO Comod here in Austria which basically is...

Haha, no problem

Thanks for you help, cheers mate!

Hi,

I got cyl -1.5 on the right and -2.0 on the left eye.

Thanks for the advice on contacts.

Im not familiar with the term "gold standard"
what does this mean? Most frequently used ?

Are there any more advanced machines that aid in the diagnosis?

They just called it "Hornhauttopographie" which translated would mean Cornea topography.

I was told that hard lenses are getting use to, what about soft lenses they dont have the same effect? meaning they cannot correct the astigmatism as good as rigid lenses?.

I live in Vienna