Help!

[PeterBalu]

Hi, I would like to know if anyone can give me some advice! About 5 years ago I went to have a consultation to find out if I was suitable for laser treetment! I was told no by two different companies one who said my astigmatism (pardon my spellings if incorrect) was too high and the other suggested that I might have Keratoconus and I was reffered to the hospital! At the hospital I was told no I dont have Keratoconus... I was a bit confused now as two people had mentioned Keratoconus to me... anyway I carried on wearing soft contact lenses for a few more years and was noticing my prescriptions were changing and eventually I was told I need to wear RGP lenses... I found these really uncomfortable and could not get used to them... I was referred back to the hospital who now confirmed I do have Keratoconus! so because I did not want to wear hard lenses I started doing some research into the alternatives... I found that I can wear Kerrasoft lenses... but found that this was an expensive option roughly £50 per month... and that it was not going to prevent the Keratoconus from developing and that My prescription will still keep changing! Then I looked into cross linking! and I thought yes I will get this done as it so far shows that it can prevent keratoconus from developing! I went to see a specialist called david jory (whom some of you allready know, as I noticed from some comments) He was really good at explaining everything to me and told me to go away and think about it... at this stage I was thinking I am deffinatly going to get the cross linking done... and I was also thinking of haveing Intacs or lens implants depending on what the surgeon said! I then decided to find other clinics who also do the crosslinking to compare the price and I went to see someone at Accuvision! Here they have recomended I have the crosslinking but with a different procedure... the procedure would be in three stages.. the fisrt stage being 1) remove the epithelial, then 2) use topography guided LASIK eye surgery to reshape the cornea.. im sure they were saying they would remove a bit of the cornea from the tip of the cone shaped cornea! and then finally stage 3) Corneal Collagen Cross-linking with Riboflavin! Now I feel confused to what I should do... I have read that laser should not be done on keratoconus patients but then again I have seen videos on you tube of this being performed! If anyone can help me with any advice it would be really appriciated! My email address is Peter_Balu@hotmail.com Thank you kind regards Peter Balu

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