query on increasing perscription
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query on increasing perscription
Hi there, just wondering if your perscription has been increasing over 2yrs does that mean that the keratoconus is active/progressing. Thanks
- Anne Klepacz
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Re: query on increasing perscription
Hello and welcome to the forum,
Can you tell us a bit more? Is your KC corrected with glasses or contact lenses? If the prescription in either has been increasing in the last 2 years, it could certainly be your KC progressing. Do you have it monitored at a hospital eye clinic or do you go to a high st optician?
Can you tell us a bit more? Is your KC corrected with glasses or contact lenses? If the prescription in either has been increasing in the last 2 years, it could certainly be your KC progressing. Do you have it monitored at a hospital eye clinic or do you go to a high st optician?
Re: query on increasing perscription
I only found out recently. Eyesight was becoming more difficult to correct with glasses and lenses. I'm really quite terrified and upset about the whole thing. I am middle-aged so I dont know if it has been progressing or mismanaged by an optician
- Anne Klepacz
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Re: query on increasing perscription
Do you mean that you only found out the problem was keratoconus recently? Have you been referred to a hospital to have it checked out? Keratoconus is usually diagnosed in young people (teens or early twenties) but there are cases when it only appears later. The good news is that what they call 'late onset KC' usually doesn't progress very much. The right contact lenses can usually correct the vision, though if it is progressing, you may need changes in prescription. There's nothing an optician can do to stop the changes, so I'm not sure that it's been mismanaged. There is a treatment to stop progression (collagen crosslinking) but that's usually only offered on the NHS to young people recently diagnosed. If you'd like our information booklet about the condition, do e-mail your postal address to anne@keratoconus-group.org.uk and I'll send you one. And don't hesitate to ask more questions here.
Re: query on increasing perscription
Thanks. I had a referral to the hospital but was told it could take a long time so I went privately to have the test which was positive. I hadn't even heard of this condition so it is difficult and scary
- Anne Klepacz
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- Keratoconus: Yes, I have KC
- Vision: Graft(s) and contact lenses
Re: query on increasing perscription
Yes, it's always scary to be diagnosed with something that most people have never heard of. I hope your hospital appointment comes through soon. As I said in a previous post, late onset keratoconus usually doesn't progress very far, and with the right contact lenses (usually the rigid gas permeable type) you should get good vision if spectacles no longer work for you.
Do let us know how you get on.
Do let us know how you get on.
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