The death of Miraflow

[GarethB]

I get the impression most sclerals are made from the same RGP material used in corneal lenses. So the recomended solutions I thinks remains pretty much the same.

Some have been advised to stoe sclerals dry others in the soaking solution you would use for a rigid corneal lens so I gues on that poiint there is no right or wrong.

Scelrals seem to be used more where getting a good fit with a corneal lens is harder. Corneals are by far the most common type of lens for KC and Scelrals are relativly popular too.

[rosemary johnson]

Hi and welcome.
I wear sclerals - RGP ones, and yes, it is the same RGP material as for corneal lenses, or rather, I think there are a range of "recipes" for the RGP plastic, but it's the same range of stuff.
I've always worn sclerals, right from when I was first diagnosed - don't know why; we ust thought everyone with KC had sclerals then.
Are you just using Miraflow as a cleaner, or as wetting agent, or cleaner/wetting agent combined (as Ken Pullum was advising)?
I use Boston/B&L for wetting - tried Miraflow and didn't really like it.
I clean my lenses in washing up liquid. And dry them on a tissue and put them in their box dry, rolled in a clean piece of tissue. Always have done. Store them wet?? - nope, money doesn't grow on trees round here....!
SOme optom will probably chime in with the obligatory Dire Warning at this point!!!! - but next time you see Ken, mention it to him........ I expect he'll laugh, particularly if you mention my name!
Rosemary

[davidjames]

Hi Rosemary and Gareth

Thank you once again for your thoughts
To reply your question I wear scerals because in spite of three cornea grafts (one left and two rights ) done in the seventies, a small lens will not stay in my eye because of the stepness of the cornea. I had ten years of pure hell with the small lenses so I am very happy with scerals.
When I first started with Scerals, pre my first op, which were called haptics in the sixties, they had to have tiny holes in them to allow the oxegen to the cornea. these were of course always getting blocked.
I saw Ken yesterday and I am going up a size from a six to a seven so this should help with comfort

David

can I sugest to to "the commitee" a spell checker on this system for us bad spellers ( I could not spell Dixlectics)

[GarethB]

David,

Being dyslexic my self, it is one of the few words I can spell with confidance.

I feind spell checkers a nuisance because I can get a word spelt wrong but chekcer thinks is correct. This is because I have spelt a word how I think it should be and it looks correct but infact I have written a completely different word that means something different to what I want but is spelled correctly!

The next bit a friend will type;

Today and Toady look exactly the same to me but I am assure they are different one is day related, the other is amphibian related!

Oh the joys of visual impairment and dyslexia

[Andrew MacLean]

The problem Gareth identifies with spell checking is the background to a little satirical poem. You have to read this out loud to make sense of it .. the joke is in the sound of the words and not in the way they apprear on the page ...)

Owed to a Spell Chequer

I halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plane lee marques four my revue
Miss steaks aye ken knot sea

Eye ran this poem threw it
Your sure reel glad two no
It's vary polished in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew

A chequer is a bless sing
It freeze yew lodes of thyme
It helps me awl stiles two reed
And aides mi when aye rime

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud
And wee mussed dew the best wee can
Sew flaws are knot aloud

And now bee cause my spelling
is checked with such grate flare
Their are know faults with in my cite
Of nun eye am a wear

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed to be a joule
The chequer poured o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule

That's why aye brake in two averse
My righting wants too pleas
Sow now ewe sea wye aye dew prays
Such soft wear for pea seas


I am sorry that I do not know the provenance of this little ode to a PC (owed to a pea see)

[Robert Ginter]

As a new member to the group, I have been following the story of “Miraflowâ€Â

[John Smith]

Hi Robert, and welcome to the forum.

Yes it is good to see that Miraflow is back with us.

Do you wear sclerals?