UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Hi everyone,

Been a while since I last posted. I've had KC for 20+ years and have worn RGP's for all of that time. A few years ago I was told that I had blepharitis and advised to do hot flannet compresses every night and also use rapitil eye drops.

I,ve been doing this for a number of years but just recently the inside of my eyelid feels very uncomfortable, I can only describe it as a very dry feeling so much so that I feel if I move my eye around too much that the lens is in danger of falling out. Through reading the posts on the forum it has become clear that a great number of us seem to have dry eyes and I am wondering if I have now got this or whether it is a symptom of the blepharitis. I have trouble getting a hospital appt and I am not due to be seen again until the end Oct.

Just wondered if anyone elso has these symptoms and what I can do to alleviate them.

Kind regards
Libby

Libby

It could be a number of things, most of which you mention. In your position, rather than wait for the next appointment I would go down the ey casualty.

Hopefuly it will be nothing to worry about and it gets treated quickly. The risk any of us takes when encountering such a problem and waiting for the next appointment is that something that would have been easily treated if we went to eye casualty turns into something harder to treat.

The general rule of thumb that I go by is that if something does not feel right, go down to eye casualty. They have always put my mind at rest and most of the time there has been a problem b which was relatively minor in the great scheme of things but they did agree left untreated it could easily have become more serios.

The only way of knowing is to have our eyes looked at the an optom or ophthalmologist.

Gareth gives good advice: go to eye casualty at your ophthalmology clinic.

Let us know how you get on.

Andrew