UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I am having laser surgery on scar tissue at the base of my cornea that has become infected from time to time. Due to the keratoconus, I have become intolerant to wearing my GPL in recent months. This doctor here in FL, USA, comes highly recommended and does various procedures including cornea transplants. Has anyone had this experience? I hope I am doing the right thing to help my vision. I hope I have created this post in the proper way.

What in the world are piggy back lens. I've had keratoconus for 20 years.

Hi Nancy,

Welcome to the forum.

Not heard of laser surgery being performed on scars, so sorry can not help there.

Piggy back lenses are where you wear a soft lens with no correction ability to act as a cushion between the cornea and a rigid gas permeable (RGP) lens.

hi nancy

welcome to the forum

like gareth i havent heard of laser surgery being performed on corneal scars.

in fact usually the opposite , with laser surgery being balked at on KC eyes as the cornea has already started thinning so there are increased risks surely with laser surgery, or have i totally misunderstood the post ?

mike

nancy

Welcome to the forum. Your surgerty is new to me, but I'd be really interested to know how things work out.

All the best

Andrew

To explain further, this surgery is not actually on the cornea. It is a slightly raised scar at the base of the cornea and has given me problems over the last few years. So, that's
why the laser surgery which will remove the scar. It will be done on May 9 and I'll let you know how it goes.

Nancy

All the best with this; it sounds really exciting. Will you have the procedure under a local anesthetic?

Andrew

They will give me a 10 mg valium and there
will be no anesthetic except to numb the eye.
This will be done as an out-patient.
You guys are making me think too much about this and I'm afraid I will "fink out."
Enough already!!! I'll report back---if I live through this!

hi nancy, dont worry your not the only 1 having this done! im having it done after my exams this summer! I'm in the UK so obv having it done here but it sounds like what im having is the same, i have central scarring in one of my eyes and havent been able to wear a lens, so they going to remove some of this with lazer and hopefully i will be able to wear a lens again yey!
Dont wori about it all, i think your doing the right thing, before having a graft im told to try as many procedures as i can before resulting to the graft! and on the plus side for me they said my sight cant get any worse from it- i have no vision in the eye without a lens, so i might aswell try what i can.
hope all goes well, let me know how it goes, and dont worry u will b fine!
Clare x

On my last visit there was talk of trying to improve my grafted eye's vision with laser, but after incisions have been tried. I prefer the idea of laser to incisions - surely I'm going to end up with more scarring that way!

Lisa,

Strange as it may seem, scaring can be a good thing.

There are many cases where people have sufferd hydrops and as a result the scar has thickend the cornea in the damaged area which has resulted in improved vision.