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Living with kerataconus

  • 09-01-2011 5:00pm
    #1
    Pluck81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭


    Hello again

    Thank you to everyone who posted on my other thread about my weight and self esteem issues but I have another question for you. In 2007 I was diagnosed with kerataconus which means that your cornea becomes cone shaped and the light bounces off of your eye in a different way. Thus restricting vision. Basically it is like looking through a fogged up mirror. I have it in my right eye and it is dormant in my left. It has not restricted my life in any way apart from some minor depth perception issues. I visit the eye and ear hospital every year to get my left eye checked and it is fine so far (touch wood). Sorry for the rambling but I am getting to the question now, The only way to correct my right eye is with a cornea transplant and I just am wondering if anyone on these boards has had the procedure done as I am considering having it myself. I would also like to hear from anyone else who is living with Kerataconus and how they are dealing with it.

    Thank you for taking the time to read this:)


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  • #2
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,351 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Moved from PI


  • #3
    milehip1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭milehip1


    Hey Pluck,

    I had a cornea graft in 1997,it's a pretty serious op, takes a week in hospital,6 weeks off work, gallons of eye drops and your eye will be sore as hell and not very pretty for the first few days,very sensitive to light and touch.
    lots of follow up visits to your ophthalmologist aswell which all have to be paid for separately so if you dont have medical cover it'll be quite expensive

    You can't play any contact sports after either as a blow could disloge the graft, which is held in place by 16 nylon stiches.
    the last point made me quite nervous initally and affected my social life,but thankfully that subsided after a few months.

    That's all i can think of now hope it hasn't put you off
    all in all I'm happy I had the operation done as my vison is almost 20/20
    and my ophthalmologist is very pleased with the state of the graft.

    feel free to ask me more if you like.
    who is your ophthalmologist btw?

    Of course it nearly 15 years since I had this done,so some of the methods may have changed since then.
    there's another thread on this issue that i also posted in maybe a mod could combine these?


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