UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I was cleaning my lenses last night, fairly absent-mindedly when crack! I had pressed down too hard on the top of the right lens. I was looking down at the shattered remains of an rgp! Three pieces. I have tried inserting the only spare I have which is a left lens from my first prescription but its not great and I have taken it back out. So I've got one eye on-line at present. I am getting a fuzzy 6/12 but a lot of ghosting and double images. Bah! I am less than happy. Things are a bit better if I patch the right eye but then I lose all depth perception. I will call the lens clinic this morning at about 9. Didn't realise they were so delicate!

Matthew,

They are more delicate than we might think. They chip easy too which why I cover the sink or the dresser with a towel when cleaning lenses or putting them in. That when when I drop them they only get a but of towel fluff on which is easier to fix than a chipped or broken lens.

You did want to get used to seeing with one eye. By the time you have anew lens in a week or so you will be quite adept at seeing with one eye. The depth perception does go, but you can compensate given time.

Matthew,

Sorry to read about your broken lens, they are very delicate when we really don't want them to be!! I normally have a spare but have to say that i lost it a few weeks ago so need to take my own advice and get another one!!

Hoping that the clinic get you one soon. Take care!

Matthew

Do you get a prize for breaking the lens in three pieces?

When you ohoned Gartnavel to order a new lens, I daresay there was a knowing smile on the face of the receptionist. This has to be a familiar story!

Andrew

Sorry to hear that, i think we have all been there! i remeber once my lens fell out outside, (open side down for a change), tried to pick it up, only realising I had snapped it once I got into the car!

Matthew,

On my way home from work I sympathised more with your predicament when for somereason my right eye became excrutiatingly painful.

Pulled to the hardshoulder and removed the offending lens and boy was I aware that I had bean able to wear a lens in each eye for the past 12 months.

Put some eye drops in and stood on the mebankment for 15 minutes and fortunatly the brain realised there was no lens in the right eye so no point in trying to use and I was on my way again.

Before when I was jugling lenses one eye at a time I could change at a drop of a hat with no problem!

It is odd the way that works. The more we "switch off" one or other eye, the easier it becomes.

Sorry you had to re-learn an old skill Gareth, but it is worth practising.

Andrew

All part of the learning process. Gordon at the clinic was excellent as ever and yes he has this story a few times! My new lens arrives in a week which is very good as I am away on a course in Southampton the following week.
My left eye is a green light 'on-line' whereas my right eye is flashing amber on 'stand-by'. Getting used to it already!

I do envy those who can switch eyes easily. My KC is worst in my left eye - but my right eye is a "lazy" eye so the only time I use it is when my left eye is firmly shut! This can be incredibly tiring.

Glad to hear you'll get your new lens quickly - are you ordering a spare at the same time....?

I can get by with just a kens in my left eye which is the worst affected by KC but because I had a haemorrage(?spelling) at the back of the right eye across the retina I have a slight distortion when I look at things, I have lost the top right hand bit of things, which means I can't focus properly with a lens in that eye only.

Mind you when it first happened I couldn't read the top letter on the chart with my right eye with or without lenses but now with a lens in I can read to about the fifth line much to the amazement of Prof. Buckley and KP. There is still the distortion but it is very much less.

I have always said that somebody up there must like me, that and all the arrows that were sent up for me at the time.

Lesley.