For Mark Davis

[Lynn White]

Mark..

I am answering you on a new thread because it was going to get too confusing to answer you on Claire's!

Jayuk gives excellent advice and basically it is hard to improve on that without more information. What he means by corneal topography is a measurement of the front of your eyes with a machine that draws a contour map of your cornea.

Keratoconus occurs when the cornea - the clear part of your eye at the front - thins and distorts. Its shape becomes more and more conical with time (hence the name - kerato - cornea/ conus - cone!) Even in the early stages, it is difficult to correct with glasses because lenses are made on the assumption the cornea is a regular shape.

Contact lenses are so much better visually because they present a regular curvature to the world and mask your irregular cornea.

It is impossible to say how you will progress or if you will need surgery. Some KC's advance aggressively, some do not go any further than when diagnosed. It is mostly in both eyes (some argument in the literature about that one...) but most usually worse in one eye than the other.

If you could give more information about your situation then we could all advise you more. KC varies so much between individuals that it is impossible to give general advice!!

Lynn

[Mark Davis]

Thanks very much for the info you kindly supplied. I have been referred to the Eye clinic so hopefully I will find out more after a deeper analysis of my eye.
Thanks again.