UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I went for a checkup post graft yesterday, and it turns out that my stitches were coming undone, so i had to go in for emergency surgury last night. When will this ever be over Im so sick of it.
My eye doesnt hurt as much today as it did last week though, so maybe it did it some good.

Sorry to hear that. I hope things pick up for you soon. Make sure you get plenty of rest.

Take care
Anne

Hope you make good progress from now Jo. Keep posting to let us know how things are going.In a few days you will hopefully be feeling more optimistic.

Hi Jo,

Hope you are doing OK now, I have heard stitches can come loose as a result of healing quickly.

No idea if it is true, but I do hope you make a speedy recovery in the proper sense

Thanx guys, i went for another check-up today, and all is going well, my eye is feeling alot better thankfully. Although i do still have very cloudy vision, and i dont feel confident yet to drive, does anyone know when i will be able to get back on the road, how long until you all started driving again? I have uni next week, which is 2 hours from my house, each way, and i travel there 3-4 days a week, i need to be able to drive, im sick of relying on lifts.. any help would be very much appreciated!
thanx
Jo

Jo,

I think it took me six months because my sight was so bad in the ungrafted eye, I had to wait until I could get the grafted eye corrected with glasses.

Unfortunatly it is down you your healing powers.

Can you still see OK out of the other eye?

I was a long time before I could drive. Like Gareth I had no sight in my non-grafted eye, and it did take a very long time for the sight in my grafted eye to settle down enough for me to drive.

the only rule to this is that there is no rule. Each of us is unique and experiences vary from short times spent waiting todrive again, all the way up to the far longer time I had to wait.

sorry this is no great help.

Andrew

Jo
AS Andrew said, everybody is different. I had a graft done in my left eye on April 10.My left eye was allways the bad one, I can now see better with it without a lens than I ever did with a lens before I had a hydrops at Christmas. I was back behind the wheel after 10 weeks. I think I could have driven before if I was not suffering from the light affecting my eyes. I have returned to work as an aircraft engineer in the last two weeks with no problems so far with the hours drive each way.
Pat

Jo wrote:Thanx guys, i went for another check-up today, and all is going well, my eye is feeling alot better thankfully. Although i do still have very cloudy vision, and i dont feel confident yet to drive, does anyone know when i will be able to get back on the road, how long until you all started driving again? I have uni next week, which is 2 hours from my house, each way, and i travel there 3-4 days a week, i need to be able to drive, im sick of relying on lifts.. any help would be very much appreciated!
thanx
Jo

How long is piece of string. Every one is different. My first eye I was driving after 5 weeks. This is very rare and I was VERY fortunate, my opthalmologist is upset there is not a show he can put that graft in. It has been excellent and behaved beautifully for nearly 11 years. We shall see what its teenage years bring.

For my up until the 5 week mark it was the glare. My vision was cloudy but also I could not look into the light. With my refractive surgeries. I was driving again in a fortnight or so, but it was again the glare. When the glare sensititivty lessened I found I could drive,even when my vision was mainly out of one eye.

Thanx again for your help guys,
I am still wearing the lens in my right eye, and my vision in that eye is okay, but gets blurry toward the end of the day, i think because im relying on it so much now, post op. So yeah hopefully i will be able to get back on the rpad in a few weeks, the doc said that i should be right, but i dont feel confident at all just yet