If and when you lose a lens in your mask, just relax and go with it. I think with keratoconus you can still get your gauges close enough to see them! I wear a mask with a purge valve in part because I have been able to clear it without losing my lost lenses to the ocean. If I lose my left lens I can't see my gauges without getting them really far away or really close and if I lose my right one everything in the distance goes really blurry. But not any worse than no mask at all. Uncorrected I'm about 20/400 in my good eye.
Diving with keratoconus
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If and when you lose a lens in your mask, just relax and go with it. I think with keratoconus you can still get your gauges close enough to see them! I wear a mask with a purge valve in part because I have been able to clear it without losing my lost lenses to the ocean. If I lose my left lens I can't see my gauges without getting them really far away or really close and if I lose my right one everything in the distance goes really blurry. But not any worse than no mask at all. Uncorrected I'm about 20/400 in my good eye.
divesergeant
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Good tip on the purge valve mask. It would suck to lose an expensive lens!
I am fortunate in that I haven't got keratoconus. My problem is too many refractive surgeries from when I was young and stupid. Seemed like such a good idea back then... The result is scarred corneas and seeing everything blurry, with several blurry ghost images on top of the 'real'image. The sclerals remove the ghost images and focus the main Mage. They are a pain right now while I learn how to get them in and out, but is is exciting to finally see well.
I am fortunate in that I haven't got keratoconus. My problem is too many refractive surgeries from when I was young and stupid. Seemed like such a good idea back then... The result is scarred corneas and seeing everything blurry, with several blurry ghost images on top of the 'real'image. The sclerals remove the ghost images and focus the main Mage. They are a pain right now while I learn how to get them in and out, but is is exciting to finally see well.
I had corneal transplants 30 years ago and know what you are talking about. I wear RGP lenses to help that.
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