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| History of my Keratoconus Hi, my name is Shasta and I have an eye diseases called Karatoconus. I was diagnosed with this 10 years ago when I was 10. Within a few years of being diagnosed, I was legally blind without lenses. Throughout the past 10 years I have had to switch contact lenses many times. I was fitted with many RGP (Ridgid Gas Permeable) lenses, but could never tolerate them. The only lenses I could tolerate were the piggyback lenses. Approx. 3 years ago, after wearing piggybacks for quite a while, it was no longer fitting my right eye correctly. My eye doctor informed me that they could no longer fit my right eye with a lens, but yet they still did not recommend a transplant. They decided to fit my left with an RGP and have me go with only one eye, as long as possible. |
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| Within the first month of my left eye with the RGP, I realized there was no way my eye was going to tolerate it, so I decided to go back to wearing the piggyback (which my doctor had discouraged). I knew that it was not good for my eye, yet it was much more comfortable than wearing the RGP and I could see fairly well. After about 3 years of wearing the piggyback lens in my left eye and no lens in my other, it finally came to the point where I could no longer tolerate even the piggyback. I returned to my eye doctor and he informed me that I now had scarring on both corneas and a significant amount of blood vessel growth from the cornea not recieving enough oxygen. He decided to refer me to a cornea surgeon for a possible cornea transplant which brings me to where I am now. |
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