Problems Post Graft

[Gareth2]

after 20 weeks since graft in left eye and still very cloundy I am still not able to drive as my right eye with KC is struggling to cope being used so much and get the double vision and walking well like I am drunk can't keep a straight line keep walking into things. anyone else have this trouble?

[Andrew MacLean]

Yes
Yes and YES!

I wa nearly 20 months post graft before I was able to drive. don't panhic, if your ophthalmologist says things are progressing as they should, there is no reason to doubt that this is the case.

Losided vision does mean that your depth perception has been affeted, and you are not seeing bvery well out of one eye. This will settle down with time and the clearing of your sight.

did you have a full thickness graft, or DALK?

Welcome to the forum, and thank you for your post.

Andrew

[Gareth2]

Hi andrew.
thanks for reply and I had a full Graft due to the cornea being so thin and spliting open.

[GarethB]

I was always under the impresion when the cornea split, it was the back surface only known as Hydrops. So fluid comes between one of the three layers that make up the cornea.

Never the front surface splitting causing the eye fluids to leak out?

[Gareth2]

Hi GarethB,
well that was what my specialist told me last year when all this happened, I guess I could be unique maybe?

[GarethB]

Gareth,

Nothing wrong with being unique, KC is so complex part of sharing experiences is that we are all learning something.

Until recently I was the only one here where KC had returned post graft!

[Jo]

Well i just wanted to update you all on how my eye is going, post graft. Everything is well, i have no pain anymore, and am even back on the road sooner than i thought, i have to wear sunglasses outside all of the time, or else my left eye gets a bit light sensitive.
I consider myself extremely lucky with how i have progressed post op, recovered well, after i had to get the stitches re-done.

i dont understand what you mean about keratoconus returning post graft, i thought you always had it, regardless of the graft or not? It doesnt just go away after you get the graft, or at least thats what i thought.. i thought the graft just helped manage it better?

[GarethB]

Hi Jo,

When a graft is done, what the surgeor is trying to do with the topogrophies etc., is to take out the cornea showing signs of thinning as a result of KC and putting a good cornea back. The result is hopefully a better corneal surface that makes sight correction easier.

Grafts are by no means a cure, just another form of management is probably a better term.

Most people have good results post graft that they get discharged from the hospital and get glasses like anyone who is short or long sighted as I did for about 14 years post graft.

All donor corneas are tested to see if they have KC.

KC also in most cases affects the more central area of the cornea.

So you are correct once you have KC you always have a predisposition to it in the cornea that remains. The chances of the ungrafted cornea that remains deveolping KC is extremley small, rejections episodes arefar from the norm, but your are more likely to experience that than KC returning in the ungrafted cornea.

Hope this makes sense and good to hear your recovery is going well.