UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I have been wearing rpg lenses now for almost 22 years.

I was first diagnosed with keratocunus in 1984.

After struggling for the last few year I was recommended for corneal grafts. On the grounds It was becoming increasingly difficult to provide a comfortable fit.

I decided to put Surgery on hold and decided to explore all contact lens solutions.


In January I tried scaleral lenses, these were not for me.

On Wednesday the 12th, I tried piggy back lenses.

I am pleased to say that for the first time in more years than I can remember I have been pain free in both my eyes. I also suffer from Hayfever, big time, guess what big improvment there also.

It is early days, but I remain confident.

I would be delighted to hear from anyone else who uses a soft daily lens with an rpg.

Welcome to the forum.

Good to hear another piggy back lens success. There are a good many who wear piggyback lenses but I am not one of them.

You are sure to get many responses.

Thanks for your post, i am currently being fitted for piggy backs, I to am trying to put of a cornea graft! Your post has given me hope that they may actually work, I have failed with all other RGP lens! Good Luck, Emma.

Hallo James, and welcome.
I'm delighted to hear you're having such success with piggybacking.
I'm now piggybacking with daily soft lenses for my right eye - under a scleral lens.
The comfort is pretty impressive - well, it was before the hay fever started, and isn't doig too badly considering how bad everyone says the h*y f*v*r is this year.
The vision starts off OK in the mornings and gradually deteriorates over the day - though maybe part of that is concentration and part is the dreaded h** f****.
But it's gret to have something comfortable I can wear in my right eye - and not least, so I can actually see out of the eye nearest the traffic if I want to take my four-footed friend out for a ride that involves going on the roads.
(the field where he lives backs onto a garden centre where "they" are building an extension, and he has decided he doesn't want to go anywhere near the area where this terrible scary JCB is behind the hedge. Unfortunately, that's where the gate is from the small part of field outside his stable to the big part where we can go and have a nice canter round and up th ehill. So I've been waiting for the new lenses to come, so I can take him round the block to the garden centre, and introduce him to the nice folks there in the hope he'll then decide they aren't so scary after all. On the other hand, this may be a very risky idea, as he may decide to eat half the marchandise.....)
Rosemary

@jamescolclough: Did you try rose-k?