UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Well i often wonder this before i go out! Lets say im wearing my RGP's and someone started a fight with me, i happened to get punched in the eye whilst wearing RGP's what would happen? Apart from having a black eye. Would them little bits of plastic damage my eye?

Good question, and a useful excuse to avoid situations where a fight may break out

I really do wonder every time though, you hear of these un provoked attacks. You never know.

Have to say I get similar worries regarding the grafted eye, and getting the graft hit. As far as lenses go, I don't know what would happen really.

Vic,

I know how you feel. Fir the first 2-3 months post-graft, if I was outside, I'd be wearing my eye-shield!

Jayboi and Vic.

Yup, this has been a worry for me, too. Like jOhn I did wear my eye shield at first when out and about, and before that I did worry about the possible risk of something causing ny lens to break inside my eye.

I did actually walk into some swcaffolding once and hit my eye with the lens in. the lens did not break, but it did pop out. I was entirely sure that I had lost if forever, but when I got home, I because aware of something bright in the fold benearh my lower eye lid. I brushed with my hand to dislodge what I thought was a tear.

It was my lens!

Actually I am not sure that the risk of a contact loens breaking in your eye is any greater than the risk of specs shattering, or a car windscreen ... ... ...

We live in hazardous times.

Andrew

My eldest daughter caught me with a lovely left hook (Ricky Hatton would have been proud) the other evening.

My experience was that it hurt like hell, not her fault obviously, we were playing and four year olds are not always completely in control of themselves. Hell come to that nor are 36 year olds.

Any way it hurt like hell for a short while, but recovered quickly with no damage as far as I was concerned, but then...I have not been grafted.

The simple answer Jay though is keep a low profile and stay away from trouble. Especially maurauding four year old girls.

Thats a good question..and was always on my mind...more so when I also had the sclerals......and I figured that if someone smacked you dead on the eye; more than likely the lens would unsettle and push back against the cornea....and possibly shatter......and thats something you dont want happening!

A better reason to NOT get in fights and just walk away!.....OR...if push comes to shove learn the art of something like Kempo Ju Jitsu which is more focussed on real street fighting and attacks..and has a number of moves around avoiding "top half" blows....and also learn the immediate pressure points to disarm and take someone down to the floor faster......and walk away.

I did Kempo Ju Jutisu for 6 years up until I was 21...and it has given me insite into how weak the human body is with simple blows around the body....turning a 240LB beef to a sack of sh*t in no more then 2 or 3 strikes.... its a funni old game!

J

Well, I can answer some of those concerns, as I've been in a few situations ending up with a punch in the eye.
A few times kick-boxing, I'd often spar with the right lens in. I got a serious left hook to my right eye which really jarred my brain but the lens was fine, considering he was wearing gloves and since the eye-socket is rather small, the area around it took the force and not the eye itself. But I suppose we mean 'street fighting' or being attacked, which too, has happened to me.
I can only count two times specifically at college and once a few years ago, normally a clean straight punch to the eye actually isn't that easy - more random than anything, because it is such a small target, but even those two times my brow took the impact mostly or the cheekbone but I did feel it in the eye but it never dislodged the lens.
I think there is a certain amount of give in the eye itself anyway so any sudden force just pushes the eye back like a shock-absorber so the chances of the lens taking a full hit are very slim even when I was boxing it was fine.
Also, I'd like to point out, ya know the free-style-fighting-full-contact-break-arms-legs-choke outs for those that watch 'King of the Cage' or 'Ultimate Fighting Championship', well there are at least 3 fighters who wear contacts in the cage, and they seem fine too.

Knight

You didnt refer to your days in 22nd SAS?

J