UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Will I go into cornea rejection? ( I have read about it online)

New cornea graft- about a year old.
Got told on tuesday that I have blood vessels under my eye lid??....and it looks like could be heading for
rejection??.......at present graft is clear and no pain.

They have increased the vexol to every hour..........still got my stiches in.

am praying that there wrong.

other eye has a graft and is over 25 years and has been fine.

going day by day now.......

also noticed that vexol can make my eye red at times.

A rejection caught early can almost always be reversed. Use of hourly steroid drops is the usual way to prevent a rejection developing so this should do the trick. Presumably you've got a follow up appointment in the next few days to check how things are? But in the meantime, if anything changes or you're not happy about how the eye is, do go back to the hospital (A&E if you can't be seen in your normal clinic. I had several rejection episodes successfully reversed and do hope it'll be the same for you. Best of luck.
Anne

All the best with this: as Anne says a rejection episode can usually be headed off.

Every good wish.

Andrew

thanks for that........
all very kind words.

my eye looks good lovely and white and my vision with the 'pin hols'
is the best yet. overall looks super to me........

got some vains under my eye lids( this is where the blood vessels are) but nothing major bad looking..........and it looks a lot better
and the eye looks better than the other old grafted eye.

Got to say that over all over past year had a lot appointments changed and cancelled by hospital
not helped.

Another specialist said its blood vessels looking for oxygen under my eye lids? and thats why they are there
because they find oxygen.......... difficult to find oxygen....

yesterday its was all doom and gloom. I pray there wrong.


yes had follow up check up still to early seen tuesday and yesterday.

Your cornea has no blood supply, so it depends on atmospheric O2 dissolving in the tear film in order to be healthy. When it doesn't get enough oxygen this way, it begins to compensate by growing blood vessels from a nearby source (in your case this seems to be the eyelid) to feed itself with the necessary O2.

This creates two problems; the first is that blood vessels can make it difficult to see. The second is that blood recognizes grafted tissue as 'foreign', and begin to reject the invasion.


It seems, from what you say, that your situation has been stopped in good time.

All the best

Andrew

really nice to have a reply, helped to lift me.

yesterday and Tuesday felt that I had been hit buy a bus!
came straight home because I new I was not safe to be out and about
(felt like a zombie) was shock with the news.

I hope that the vexol will help, never seen white of my eye so white, its like
a white of a fried egg!! day 2 and half of hourly vexol.

going to take the stich out on tuesday now.........
I say stich because as most folk know its 'one big one'.

with my other eye old fashion one! it was lots of small ones..........

keep going with the vexol.......its been a worry and will be for some time.

All the best. We can only guess what this experience must be like for you.

Thinking of you!

Andrew