UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

I am prompted to create this thread by Gareth who in his recent posts has regularly referred to the regulations requiring employers to carry out VDU assessments. Incredibly this is not even referred to on our charity's Factsheet for employers which I provided to my former employer upon commencement ...

From my own personal research I have discovered the curvature of a normal cornea is 44 diopters so not alot of difference between that and mild KC which probably accounts for why people who do have KC will never be/are yet to be diagnosed. I suspect the majority of diagnosed KCers, like myself, have...

Discovered this gem of information which clearly defines the parameters http://kcglobal.org/content/view/14/26/ Corneal curvature Mild keratoconus < 45D Moderate keratoconus 45 - 52D Advanced keratoconus 52 - 65D Severe keratoconus > 62D Corneal thickness in microns Normal cornea 543 Microns Early k...

http://www.keratoconus-group.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15621 I dont know how many KCers attend NHS Liverpool Lea but sadly it was a very poor turn out in view of the fact that the meeting was for the north west. There may have been 15 people in the room including the two representatives ...

Any chance of addressing the question concerning numbers registered Anne.

Such measurement gives an indication of changes in your KC to enable you to know were you are on the scale and they are on record and such data maybe useful for KC medical research and a better understanding of the disease enabling improvements in management - preventative as well as solutions and m...

http://www.optometricmanagement.com/articleviewer.aspx?articleid=71489 If you dont know what your k readings are, i.e you are not being told at your appointments how do know at what stage your KC is mild-severe? At what point, i.e K reading does your KC become a "disability" under the Equ...

Nice link, Steven; though I'm unclear on the Leeds relevance. Did you mean to post a different link?

If you had watched the u tube video link you would have understood why John

Thought you may be interested in this Lea

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/corneatransplant/pages/introduction.aspx

Why is this facility no longer working on my profile. All it has is a "-"

Have all users last time posted facility been disabled? if so is there any particular reason for this?