Hello, thank you for the detailed story of your CXL experience. After all these years, how do you feel? Have you improved your vision acuity? Please give me an update. Thank you! 

I had CXL about 10 years ago (maybe it was longer, I forget), and was one of the clinical experiments. I'm 70 now. CXL only on 1 eye, they said the other was too advanced.. I doubt it, but it was during the trials and I'm pretty sure they wanted to keep their success numbers up because it had already been approved in Europe. Anyway, it stabilized my one eye for the last 10 years, and after being fitted with 2 scleral lenses, I can see (with both eyes, the Scleral lens is amazing) better than my 19 year old son.

Good Luck

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How are you now 7 years later ?

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Hard to believe it's been 7 years!  Not too much has changed.  My dryness issue has mostly cleared up.  I'd say only a few times a year I reach out for eye drops.  Otherwise, my vision mostly remains the same... I still have some minor issues but glasses do a lot to help.  Right now my only struggle is just getting old (I'm in my 40s now) and dealing with my eyes getting older and needing new prescriptions as my close-up vision gets worse.  But keratoconus-wise everything is quite stable.