Well people that know me probably know I have a eye condition call Kerratoconus which is where a layer of the eye thins over time, for a proper explanation see this. It’s a bit of a weird one as it’s very very unpredictable. Some peoples site deteriorates a bit and stops, some peoples gets quite bad and they get to the point of a corona transplant (about 10-20% of the time). The problem is there is no cure for the problem, however since 1998 there has been this new treatment that basically has shown very positive results in halting and even reversing some of the effects, not sure on what the exact figures on it’s success rate, but think its pretty good, there are no absolutes.
After some thinking I decided to go ahead with this treatment. Unfortunately I can’t get it on the NHS so I will have to go…private. As some of you may also know because of my politics I’m not a great fan of private medicine 
so that was a bit of a hard decision to, but I trust the hospital and doctor as from what I understand the hospital is a charity hospital and has no share holders all profit is put directly back into the hospital. And the doctor is known as the best eye guy in the region.
As the treatment is new and is still in NHS trials (has EU drug approval) I have decided to plot my progress on a section of my blog for interested parties. I am booked in to have the treatment today so I will report back tonight if possible on progress for day one and so on and so forth. A lot of people, including myself for a while, seem to be on the fence with this treatment so I hope this blog will help people a little bit on deciding if the treatment is right for themselves or a loved one or just if people are interested in my left eye…
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Hi there – I am researching my options as I do not want to have a corneal transplant for my keratocounus which is quite bad now.
A year on – how is your eye and are you glad you had the treatment?
April 10th, 2010
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