Big day next tuesday

[Vic]

Best of luck, really hope it all goes well for you

[piper]

OK, here's the latest.....on april 10 they will replace my right (grafted) lens, and then see if my vision is now just single images. If so then they will re-evaluate the need for a PK in the left eye....and may just replace the lens and see if that takes care of the 77-or so images I now see in the standard AREN'T ALL THE MOONS PRETTY TONIGHT test.

right up till now I have had great confidence in the doctors. wow.

Anyone else had the multiple image thing and cured it with just a lens?

Piper

[Pat A]

Piper
The straight answer to your question is - yes to multiple images but to the lens solving it - No! But read on!

I really hope all goes well, but, having had a cataract op myself I want to share my experience with you so that your expectations are realistic!

It really depends on what is causing your multiple images. Certain types of cataract can cause multiple images - but so can KC! If the lens being replaced is in your grafted eye then it sounds like there is a good chance that it is the cataract causing your problem - and so to replace the lens in the eye may well solve it. Let's hope so
But so that you understand my experience, the original diagnosis (by a local Consultant, not Moorfields) for the cause of my multiple images was put down to cataracts. So I had my left eye done (and I was booked in to have the right done 6 weeks later). But after the op, my multiple images were even worse - and much clearer too (due to the new lens) and I was, to put it mildly, absolutely devasted, and very depressed for quite some time. As a result I was referred on to Moorfields (who had not been involved thus far at all) who subsequently (eventually!) diagnosed KC in both eyes. Although I do have a cataract still in my right eye, Moorfields have advised leaving well alone at the moment as it is relatively "young" and is highly unlikely be the cause of the multiple images in that eye, that is likely to be the KC.

If the other eye (your left) has KC, hasn't had a graft but has a cataract, my totally unprofessional view, [as I am no medic!!] is that the cataract op on it's own may not improve the multiple image problems much - although your vision could be well improved if you are currently very short sighted. And if the reason for the multiple images is partly cataract and partly KC then I suppose it might reduce the number of moons to +/-47 - but hey I can't see well enough to count mine!! I'm up to somewhere around +/- 11 in my left (the eye with the new lens!) and about +/-9 with the other!

But if they do both, the graft and the cataract at the same time, you could well have a wonderful different view of the world in a few months time!

Hope I haven't worried you necessarily, but I personally would much rather have an idea of what to expect and I can then cope/manage with the outcome. And if the outcome is better than expected. what a bonus! But to expect the best and then have your hopes totally ruined is, in my experience far worse!

Be thinking of you...

Pat
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[piper]

Pat, thank you for your kind and informative letter. Yes, that's what I want, is my 77 or so moons to be REALLY CLEAR. Ya, sure........

I totally understand the disappointment and depression, as many of us here have been there and felt that way. I was devastated as you were, when I went in for a contact lens fitting in the graft eye and it did nothing for my vision...nothing........and I really wanted to just SEE AGAIN. Yes, we all understand depression. I wonder sometimes if there is another group of people who share a health issue as we do who feel the dpression as a regular part of treatment and exisitance.

I can't wait till tuesday as all indications are that I will be back to ONE IMAGE again after the lens replacement.

Thanks again, Pat and to all you other well-wishers.

Cheers, Piper