I hate flip-flops, with a vengeance. A couple of years ago I chanced upon some Quiksilver (sp?) one which were really comfy, didn't fall off, never tried to kill me on stairs. I loved them.
I do a bit, due to smashing my leg up about 25 years ago. But that said, my footwear wears out fairly evenly so I'm not sure how much my gait effects things?
Suits you sirgremlin wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:27 amI hate flip-flops, with a vengeance. A couple of years ago I chanced upon some Quiksilver (sp?) one which were really comfy, didn't fall off, never tried to kill me on stairs. I loved them.
Then a few weeks ago I looked at my mutt on the lawn, chewing in what I thought was a stick. No, it was my beloved flip-flops which the kid had taken to wearing int he garden and left them outside.
Supposedly going away next Saturday. I'll look a fool striding around the pool in brogues.
My first pair of Ceyo flip flops lasted 3 years. OK, I only wear them for about 6 - 7 months a year but it was still impressive. My second pair lasted 2.5 years and I currently have 2 pairs which are over a year old.
You should be under the hospital for KC, not your opticians. Opticians don't see it enough to have the experience. Getting the fit right for them can be an art.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:23 am I had to go to a fancy optician for these, SpecSavers et al are no use. My underlying eye problem is Kerataconus - non spherical corneas. Therefore I need non spherical lenses too, which is why I'm bothering with CLs. I.e. it's not cause I don't want to wear glasses, it's cause only CLs can truly fix my vision.
Wait till you lose them! They are proper ping fuckits! My right one is 7 years old - a record apparently. I've gone through about 4 lefts in that period though. I get CL checks every 6 months at the hospital and a consultant appointment every 18 months now.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:23 am I baulked at the cost initially - £300 for the lenses plus £19pcm for ongoing cover at the optician - but so far its worth every penny. So sooooo much better than the treatment you get at the high-street brands. I've been back 4 times already to get the right fit, going back on Saturday to check again after I've had these a bit. SpecSavers told me I couldn't get lenses at all!
And old term for KC used to be 'light blindness'. As per Daz's pic above, the cornea becomes irregularly shaped, sometimes like a rugby ball, but not generally as uniform., That has the effect of scattering the light on the back of the eye causing ghosting and generally strange vision. Having a hard contact lens on the fromt of the eye creates a false cornea witha regular shape, allowing the light to be refracted more regularly.
) before finally getting my "real" ones on set 4. Sets 5, 6 etc are included in the price. They've got little orientation markers a the 6 o'clock position (can't see 'em when you're wearing the lenses) so when I first put them in my vision is wrong, I have to blink a load of times to make the lenses rotate around and 'fit' with my cornea. Not really sure what you mean about laser surgery, I may be a bit behind the times with mine as it's stable and managed but the only treatment (apart from a graft) is C3R and that just stops it progressing - it can't reverse it. When you have KC your cornea gets stretched as it deforms. Where it stretches it gets thinner. The last thing we want to be doing is shaving bits off with a laser.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:41 am Glasses can't possibly fix that. They can mitigate, but basic optics means you can't 'adjust out' the effects caused by having non-spherical lenses. The only way to fix it properly is to make the cornea spherical again. The extreme solution is laser eye surgery, but my vision is nowhere near bad enough to warrant that and it'd probably change again anyway. The less drastic fix is to get CLs which are also non-spherical "the other way" so that the combination of CL + cornea forms a sphere again.
). Using a laser to make that cut means you can scarf the joint when your eye is closed up again, which reduces the stress built into the cornea when it heals. Same as me. I was prescribed glasses which did SFA, then I was lucky enough to see a new optician for an eye test. She was moonlighting from her day job at the eye hospital and she noticed it straight away. That afternoon I was on the eye mapping machine. It was still managed with glasses for a few years but then I went onto RGP and have had them for about 22 years or so.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 2:52 pm Mine onset in my early 20s although it wasn't' formally diagnosed as KC until late 20s - until then they thought it was just astigmatism. I had went to Moorfields for check ups once every 6 months or so, until I had the CXL done there when I was early 30s - think I was 31. Since then it hasn't changed.
