Transplant post-op vision

[jamesar]

Hey dudes and chicks,

A question for all the graft recipients. How long after your transplant were you able to see things clearer. My vision improved about 30% and has now plateaued and everything looks all smeared and it is really testing my visual cortex, eye muscles and patience. Will the vision improve anymore? And if it doesn't, then what? It is an anxious wait to see what will happen to your vision post-graft

[GarethB]

I'd say mine was the exception in that 12 months post op although vision was about as blureded as it was pre-op, the corneal surfcae was better for vision correction so it could be corrected with glasses. A year or so later things improved so I went a couple of years with no need for vision correction and then progressed to glasses and now back on contact lenses.

The whole idea of the graft which many patients never get informed of is that it is to make a more regular corneal surface whereby vision corection is made easier with either glasses or slightly more commonly contact lenses. The same goes really for any corneal surgery.

As you say your vision has plateud there is probably no reason why you can't be fitted with glasses or lenses. Lenses may depend on if you still have stitches in.

[Anne Klepacz]

My experience was very different between my two eyes. With the graft in the first eye I didn't really get any benefit until I could be fitted with a contact lens. With the second eye, I was seeing better within a few months. So the answer is that it's very variable. The vision can carry on changing for a year or more, and is likely to change again when the sutures come out. Waiting for improvements is hard, but you'll get there!
All the best
Anne