question of a sensitive area !!!!!! please reply asap

[optom]

hi guys, this may be an unorthodox question for the form but relevant all the same ,as KC effects all parts of our lives. just wondering has anyone got the answer to this question

Is it unsafe to have sexual intercourse after your graft , i no there can be problems with raised iop but would this be a factor ???


thanks guys

[Andrew MacLean]

Optom

Your question is sensible and not at all out of order.

When you emerged from hospital after your graft, you were probably given a leaflet that specified that you ought to abstain from 'sport' for a period of weeks (probably 6).

I guess anything as strenuous as 'sport' ought to be avoided for that period of time.

All the best

Andrew

[optom]

thanks for the sound advice , unfortunately i didn read the form last night or this morning , actually mayb fortunate i did as ignorance is defo bliss ......

[Andrew MacLean]

There is a general rule; when people need to ask, they know already what the answer is going to be!

It is all a matter of potential cost against anticipated benefits.

All the best.

By the way, how are things now? Has your eye become less red?

Andrew

[optom]

my eye is great so happy so far . the pain is really reducing and the redness is now very little , still some on the lower conjunctiva but nothing i would need have seen before. How long did it take for the sensation of the stitches take to wear away

[Andrew MacLean]

Sometimes I used to feel the sutures so that it was as if I had a lens in my eye. Sometimes I was not aware of them; although sometimes I could see them if the sun was at the correct angle; the circle of sutures appeared like a circle of sparkling blue things. I asked my ophthalmologist and he confirmed that I was seeing the stitches, although when he took out the first 8 I stopped being able to see the remaining 8.

All the best

Take care

Andrew

[Loopy-Lou]

Ahh Andrew that was so delicately put my dear! *considers Randomised Controlled Trials on which 'sport' would raise IOP more than others*!! [oh go on, one of us had to lower the tone ]

On a more serious note, I also had the little sparkly lights number with my first graft, but not with the 2nd, I wonder why?