My partner's op is in 4 weeks -I need help to help him thru

[Loopy-Lou]

How long do you reckon to leave bending over folks? Just the first week? I bend foward to wash my hair with a shower head in the bath [I'm very adept at not gettng any water in my eyes, I've got that down to a fine art].

I reckon it's good to avoid rush hours public transport wise and the one advantage of putting on an eye guard instead of sunglasses initially when going out is that it makes people give you a wider berth, like a stick or chair.

[rosemary johnson]

Well, I didn't worry about things like that - but then, after I'd spent the first hour after coming round from the op lying face down on the hospital floor in floods of tears and apparently yelling the place down with profanities (!!! - I have no recollection of being able to get a word out, let alone those), bending over to wash y hair was the least thing to worry about.
Mind, I seem to recall it was a while before I got round to washing my hair, cos of not getting shampoo in my eye.
Rosemary

[tneedham]

Hi All

I have found my orbscan topology from 6 months.
Not 100% sure of what it all means, but i have been told that i have a fairly regular astigmatism now. at 120deg.
If anyone can read it and tell me anything else about it, i would be greatly apreciative and interested.

Tom

[tneedham]

Saw my consultant today......
And all is good.

I am now on to 1 drop of dexamethasone a day, then i stop altogether in 2 months. I was told that the cornea has healed really well and that when i stop the dexa, it will heal even quicker
He has said that i am ok to start wearing glasses now and i can consider lenses after i stop the dexa in 2 months time, next time he will see me is at the 12 month mark (13th october) and i think i am to have a few stitches removed to try and regulate my astigmatism.
My pressure was good and the sphericity of my cornea means that lens fitting will be ok and i am in the acceptable range for having further surgery (laser?) in a couple of years time.

All good news and i am very happy.

Tom

[Andrew MacLean]

Tom,

That is really good news. Keep on that trajectory and you'll be right as nine in no time.

Andrew

[GarethB]

Tom,

If you get acceptable vision with glasses, will you still consider going for lenses?

just being nosey

[tneedham]

Gareth.

I think i might, i want ultimately to have further surgery to perfect my vision........
however this is me talking with pretty useless vision so i really dont know how i'm going to feel when i am corrected, things like that can change a persons perception.
I have not had vision that i would consider to be adequate in 11 years. I have struggled through a design degree, i now do that for a living and have to have a 40" screen that i have to sit 12" away from to do my work. I dont remember what it is like to be able to see things clearly, i have not seen what the moon looks like in all that time, i see about 8 distorted moons in one, i cant recognise my girlfriend when she is coming towards me until she is less than about 15m away. little details like that that i have to put up with on a day to day basis and no-one but me really gets to know how difficult it is or understand what i have to go through. Simple things that people take for granted like I want to be able to play golf without having other people to tell me where my ball went. I want to be able to sit further than 12" away from my computer screen and still be able to see it. I want to not have to carry around a bottle of saline to constantly wet my eyes and re-set my lens.
I want perfect vision.... like other people.

Sorry. this turned into a tear fueled rant, i'm sure we all feel like this here.

Tom

[Andrew MacLean]

I'm not sure that saline is the best substance with which to drench dry eyes; I use Clinitas Soothe. I think you might find that your eyes do not become dry again so quickly if you use a product marketed as an artificial tear, such as any of the clinitas range (Soothe is preservative free and okay for use with lenses), or any of the other products on the market. (I think Gareth uses Systane, and likes it very much)

All the best

Andrew

[GarethB]

Thanks for the comprehensive answer Tom, only was afetr a Yes or No but I am sure people going through the same as you will find your asnswer knowing they are not alone.

You seem to be making agood recovery so hopefully you'll be like me when you get glasses and have perfect vision. I thought I'd still need contact lenses but changed my mind once I got perfect vision with glasses. A case of don't fix what ain't broke and this carried on for many years.

When I had problems with my right eye 16 years post graft I thought I'd cope fine with one eye but once I could suddenly see perfectly with a lens in the right eye my attitude soon changed.

All the best for a cintinued good recovery.

[tneedham]

Sorry Gareth.
It did turn into a proper lttle hissy fit, didn't mean to, was just feeling quite down at the moment.
It broght back memories of when my eyes first began to change 12 years ago and i had to start wearing glasses. I became very depressed and lost my confidence big style.

Andrew, i use it to keep my scleral contact lens wet, my eyes are very intolerant of them and i have to re-set them at least every hour, i have used proper lubrication drops before and have not got on with them either, my eyes tend to fill up with a lot of gunk and get cloudy, the 'thicker' drops tend to speed this up and make my eyes feel particularly gloopy. I don't have to use any drops in my transplanted eye. it took about 2 weeks for the eye to adapt from being in a scleral and not having to produce tears as much.

Tom