Well, thats life for ya...

[MacD]

Keratoconus care of Wikipedia, quite a good article.

[NSR-Dan]

im pretty blind i cant see the key's on my key board until im about 15cm away from it. i wear contacts when riding.

just a word of advise. carry some eye drops with you. sometimes long rides and wearing a helmet can dry your eyes out when wearing contacts. and it hurts like hell. cant emagine what glass ones would feel like but i bet it would be worse.

[Korea]

Can you imagine that? Cruising along when this bike comes along side, the rider turns his head and you have these two REALY big eyes looking at you?

Has happened plenty of times. It's called the Shinya Nakano Replica helmet from Arai.

[Lou Girardin]

What do optometrists know? When the bike arrives, get on it and ride.
You're only going to see sky anyway.

PS cornea transplants will be a bugger, a year for full recovery I heard.

[ManDownUnder]

Mate - it'll be like tantric sex... nothing for ages... the suspense building and building... then when it does happen - and it goes ooooooo so well..

...it'll be mind blowing...

Wait nicely, enjoy the suspense, enjoy the ride and don't make a mess

[magicfairy]

No can do...
Laser surgery takes off a layer of the cornier and the problem I have is that it’s too thin so it goes to a point.
It’s a type of stigmatism,

I have the same condition - astigmatism. Corneas thin and irregular. I have specially made soft lenses that are weigted so they sit the right way up. When they tried hard lenses for me, even after 4 months I could not tolerate them more than a couple of hours without my eyes getting irritated and having to take them out. So if you haven't worn hard lenses before be prepared for a lot of "getting used to them"
You will probably also notice a lot of glare especially around dusk and at night, makes it very hard to ride - oncoming vehicle lights are horrible. Also bright sunlight glare is worse with lenses, so you may have to invest in some good sunnies for day time riding. Good luck.

[imdying]

Laser surgery... perfect vision, can ride home if you like. Totally recommend it. I had an astigmatism in each eye... two rugby balls in different directions, they fixed that right up Check out with the people that do a topographical map of the eye and remove the smallest amount possible. They man be able to do it when the others can't.

[madboy]

It’s a type of stigmatism, too much wanking maybe?

I knew it would catch up with me sooner or later...

[kickingzebra]

The technology has changed a lot over the years!! Laser surgery is able to fix astigmatism, but the cost is a lot more than standard short or longsightedness. Last time I priced it, it was gonna be 5 K per eye.
Go for the one where they don't lift the cornea, as that can badly dry your eyes, and make them feel scratchy and dry and horrid.

But four weeks for your eyes to get used to glasses?? maybe two or three days, but not four weeks!!

Had one instance on a gsxr thou with all the go fast bits, wearing contacts, forgot to put me visor down, whacked the throttle, and blew the contact lenses up inside my head!!

I'm as blind as a bat without lenses, so that was a slow trip till they dropped back down!!

Hope she comes right for you quickly!!

[nudemetalz]

It's a tough world but you get to ride soon.

I've got 49 weeks left til I can ride and it's getting tougher by the day.
Taking the bus sux big time !!!!

[imdying]

The technology has changed a lot over the years!! Laser surgery is able to fix astigmatism, but the cost is a lot more than standard short or longsightedness. Last time I priced it, it was gonna be 5 K per eye.

I had both my astigmatisms corrected less than 2 years ago for $1750 per eye.

[PuppetMaster]

Do you have Keratoconus ?
I ask because the government still subsidise us. Well they did, I havent got a new lense for a while. i am on a contact lense benefit.

You are lucky you can wear glasses, I havent been able to wear glasses, Ive always worn hard lenses.

[PuppetMaster]

Keratoconus care of Wikipedia, quite a good article.

That article is a load of shite.

Quote - often with little or no impairment to the patient's quality of life.
Piss off, im blind ffs.

It CAN lead to blindness if untreated. I'd call that an impairment. My vision was 4-20 before surgery, 12-20 afterwards, with contact lenses. And thats my good eye.

surgery, someone elses cornea stitched onto your eyeball, thats no impairment ? A whole year of being blind in the eye. and then finally being able to wear a lense, on top of the stitches.

[Wasp]

yea... it sucks to be blind.

whatever you do DONT LOOSE THOSE HARD LENSES (yet another reason why i opted for the disposible ones cos at $12 a lense they dont cost all that much )

[MacD]

That article is a load of shite.

Quote - often with little or no impairment to the patient's quality of life.
Piss off, im blind ffs.

It CAN lead to blindness if untreated. I'd call that an impairment. My vision was 4-20 before surgery, 12-20 afterwards, with contact lenses. And thats my good eye.

surgery, someone elses cornea stitched onto your eyeball, thats no impairment ? A whole year of being blind in the eye. and then finally being able to wear a lense, on top of the stitches.

Depends how you want to read the article really. It's not a bad summary of what keratoconus is, how it's detected, and who is at risk of developing it.

About 20% of keratoconics progress to the point of needing a corneal graft. That leaves a fair proportion who don't need a corneal graft and manage with rigid lenses or spectacles only. Fair enough, that's not your experience, but it will be for many people diagnosed with it.

If anybody is interested in reading up on some of the research on keratoconus do a Pubmed search on CLEK (Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Keratoconus).