Re: Have you ever wondered....
Posted: Sat 28 Mar 2009 10:40 pm
Checks post-graft:
I'll echo what others have said, in what they are looking for; also that assuming all is going reasonably well, they get less frequent.
Most of the checks are visual inspections down a slit lamp. The corenal specialists are looking to see that he grafted piece is "clear" ie. not turning milky or getting misty milky patches, which might be a rejection, and "quiet2 ie. not inflamed and swollen.
SOmetimes I've had my eyelid turned inside out.
They also check your eye pressure regularly. SInce I've developed regularly too high eye pressure, I've now been referred to the glaucoma clinic for regular checks there and it is now them who do the pressure testing and look at the optic disk part of my retina - this is again on a slit lamp and using a big glass-egg looking lens, which turns the slit lamp light into a intense vertical needle of light which 9for me) hurts like hell. I presue if they find anything that looks amiss they will do extra things, but fortunately so far I haven't foudn out what!
Once, I said my vision was getting fuzzier and was I growing a cataract and he looked down his slit lamp again, and must have "shifted focus" from cornea to lens, and said no, it was fine. I don't know if they do that every time and don't tell me if all is OK.
Once the graft has settled enough to be fitted with a contact lens on top of it, then your're back into all the things that contct lens fitters do.
Rosemary
I'll echo what others have said, in what they are looking for; also that assuming all is going reasonably well, they get less frequent.
Most of the checks are visual inspections down a slit lamp. The corenal specialists are looking to see that he grafted piece is "clear" ie. not turning milky or getting misty milky patches, which might be a rejection, and "quiet2 ie. not inflamed and swollen.
SOmetimes I've had my eyelid turned inside out.
They also check your eye pressure regularly. SInce I've developed regularly too high eye pressure, I've now been referred to the glaucoma clinic for regular checks there and it is now them who do the pressure testing and look at the optic disk part of my retina - this is again on a slit lamp and using a big glass-egg looking lens, which turns the slit lamp light into a intense vertical needle of light which 9for me) hurts like hell. I presue if they find anything that looks amiss they will do extra things, but fortunately so far I haven't foudn out what!
Once, I said my vision was getting fuzzier and was I growing a cataract and he looked down his slit lamp again, and must have "shifted focus" from cornea to lens, and said no, it was fine. I don't know if they do that every time and don't tell me if all is OK.
Once the graft has settled enough to be fitted with a contact lens on top of it, then your're back into all the things that contct lens fitters do.
Rosemary