UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Hi Anne thanks for the reply, we went to the hospital today, and came out feeling none the wiser really! He had the photographs done of his eyes and there is a slight change in the right eye, he told us to keep in contact with our opticians , and if he needed contacts and there wasn t anyone to fit ...

Hi there, my son was diagnosed with KC in April 2009, he s currently wearly glasses for Reading and computer. We ve finally got a follow up appointmet on weds (after 6 cancelled appts) and I m just wondering what kind of questions we need to ask the consultant? When we told he had this, i didn t rea...

We got some eye drops off the doctor, hypromellose, will give this a try and see how it goes, guess its trial and error, will also try the spray as he already said I can't take that to college!! Will also tell him about the drinking plenty of water.

Thanks for that Rosemary, The doctor at the hospital just briefly mentioned cxl,as an option and said it might become available in future and to read up on it. Of course with my son being 16 its not our decision to have the treatment, he would have to decide that for himself. Basically we just have ...

No the condition was noticed by a high street optician who referred us the our local hospital and he has just told us he ll send for us in a years time! But we are thinking of going back to the original optician. Thanks for the reply about the eye drops. When i saw him rubbing his eyes I did tell hi...

Thank you all for kind replies, I m still trying to read as much as poosible, been busy over the weekend so not read much. Our main question is should we be looking into cross linking, or should we wait a year til we go back to the hospital when we ll know more on whether its progressed quickly or n...

HI again, my son has only been dianosed last week, but we ve noticed him rubbing his eyes, which we never really noticed before, and he mentioned that they are dry, I m not sure if I read that this is part of KC. We re off the docs this afternoon and was going to ask for something for this. Do any o...

Hi everyone, Just looking for as much information as possible, my son was diagnosed as having keratoconus today!! He was referred to the hospital by our optician, and we went the hospital this morning for a check up and came out in a bit of a daze. He doesn't wear glasses at the moment, and we ve go...