My management of KC has been don't take risks unless you have to, keep wearing glasses until they dont work, then contact lenses after correcting dry eye condition and finally if that fails to bring me up to driving level standard vision, a graft
In the end I had no choice but hey I had a good run diagnosed with bilateral KC in 1984 first graft in November 2013.
One of my reasons for leaving it as late as possible was I believed that by doing so I believed there was a better chance of success due to advances in technology and methods. That has happened and thanks to the sharing of information and the worlwide web its advancing at a faster rate.
I did a huge amount of personal research trying to look at the best options and try to understand why there were successes and failures of corneal transplants.
This thread, which i read a couple of weeks after my surgery imo is a gem - and as Drink says
I totally agree, highlights this.you Sir are very lucky
http://www.keratoconus-group.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13059&p=68577#p68577
In 2011 (still at age 20) I decided I cannot tolerate RGP and got a transplant in my left eye. I had the transplant in New York City. They used the latest possible technology - DALK + Intralase, so that the incisions were made by the laser and not by the surgeon`s hand
My surgery at on the NHS at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, I was informed by Mr Brahma done manually by himself, a DALK with 16 stitches.
Key questions are:-
1. does precision surgery have less of a risk of rejection and infection than manual surgery?
2. does precision surgery achieve a better outcome in vision than manual surgery
3. bearing in mind this precision surgery was done in 2011, so where in the UK can you obtain precision surgery on the
the NHS and also privately?
Something those contemplating a graft may consider looking into.