sushee - did your optometrist say why he'd offered soft lenses for you for kerataconus? - basically, from what i've read, they're not going to help you at all! basically, soft lenses just sit over the cornea, and fit to the shape of your eye - when you have kerataconus, you have a conical shape to the cornea - there is a thinner spot on your cornea that allows the intra-ocular pressure to push the centre out - when hubby was diagnosed with this a couple of years back, he was sent to four different specialists before we got to a contact lense specialist who was actually able to fit hubby for gas permeable hard contact lenses - no one else even claimed to be qualified to do it.... apparently the hard lenses put the right amount of pressure on the front of the cornea to reshape it to the ball shape it is supposed to be, rather than the conical shape. i'd be checking how much experience your optometrist has with kerataconus cos it doesn't sound right to be given soft disposable lenses - perhaps this is part of the reason as the lenses aren't suitable...

as an aside, it wasn't til the fourth specialist that we could get an answer with regard to the genetic link for kerataconus - three said no, the fourth greeted us with "this is a genetic problem, so you will need to monitor your children"

feel free to pm/email if you want any more info hun