Advice after your nerve block for surgery
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How does the appointment work?
This clinic has been designed to reduce your overall time in the eye department.
You will see an ophthalmic imager who will complete all the required tests in a similar way to your previous appointment(s). However, you will not receive any results on the day of your appointment. All your data will then be reviewed by a consultant ophthalmologist after your appointment and you will receive a letter with your results within a few weeks.
Please remember that routine eye tests are not performed at these appointments and that you should continue to see your local optometrist / optician every 1 - 2 years. Please also be aware that this clinic does not assess any conditions other than keratoconus.
How to prepare for your appointment?
To ensure we achieve the most accurate scan, it is very important that you remove your contact lenses prior to your appointment. This will need to be 2 weeks for hard contact lenses and 1 week for soft lenses.
If you are unable to remove your lenses as above, please contact booking team on 0300 613 4201 to inform us. Please note if you are unable to manage without the lenses for the time period described above, it is not possible to accurately monitor your keratoconus with these tests.
Please bring along your most up to date pair of glasses, in order to accurately measure your vision.
Please bring along your latest Optician prescription to the clinic. This will help us to establish if your condition is stable.
What will happen at my appointment?
You will have your vision tested, asked a few questions and will have optical scan(s).
What happens after my appointment?
If your condition is stable based on all the results, you will receive a letter confirming this. The letter will also state when your next appointment will likely be. An appointment letter will then be sent out to you with the exact details of the appointment nearer the time.
If your condition is not stable, you will be contacted via telephone to discuss the options to get the condition stabilise, and we may recommend corneal collagen crosslinking (CCXL) which is a procedure that can stop the condition getting worse and is effective in 95% of patients.
How long will I need to attend this clinic?
- If you have not had any treatment and not shown any progression of your condition you will be asked to attend this clinic until the age of 35, on a 9 to 12 monthly basis.
- If you have had corneal collagen crosslinking (CCXL) in both eyes and not shown any progression you will be asked to attend for approximately 3 years after your final treatment.
- If you have shown progression during subsequent visits you will continue to be asked to clinics until stable scans are achieved.
Your feedback
At the end of your appointment, you will be provided with a feedback form so that you can let us know what you think of the service and how we can improve it.
Contact us
If you have any queries relating to this information, please contact the Ophthalmology service.
About this information
Service:
Ophthalmology
Reference:
QQ/036
Approval date:
5 August 2024
Review date:
1 July 2027
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