UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Hi
I am a 22 year old male and I just got hard contact lenses a few days ago for keratoconus but I am having some problems. I feel like the left lens is scratching my eye when I blink to the extent that it is very uncomfortable, the right one is too slightly but it is far more bareable, I have cleaned the lenses over and over again. Also the lenses don't cover my whole iris..they go to the bottom edge but there is a few milimetres not covered by the lens at the top of each iris..is this normal? I was told that with keratoconus it can be hard to get a lens so fit so I am starting to think these might not be right for me but I am no expert.

Any thoughts or views on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks

specialk_1985

Welcome to the forum

How long are you wearing your rgp lenses each day? The best advice I was ever given was to start at 30 minutes, go up to an hour the following day and so on, to enable my eyes to get used to having little bits of plastic floating about on the surface.

I started 30 mins then built it daily up I am on 2 hours now3 hours now.

Try increasing more slowly; find a wear time with which you are comfortable and stay with that for a day or two then build up at half an hour a day.

See if that helps

Andrew

The thing is the scratching sensation starts pretty much as soon as I put it in, its not as if it just starts after wearing it too long (which might only be 30 mins).

Then I'd not try to persevere: I'd go back to the optometrist and explain what I was experiencing. It may be that you need a different sort of lens, or a lens made of different material.

Actually, there are many different lens styles and materials. Even among RGP corneal lenses there are many different varieties. The art of finding the right lens for the KC patient is part of the professional formation of the CC specialist optometrist.

Andrew

I had problems with hard contact lenses as well but after i explained this to the contact lens clinic they gave me Kerasoft lenses which are bigger but are much easier to bear althouth they do not improve you vision as much as hard contact lenses.

Thanks for the replies. appreciated.