Hi. I always known I’ve had bad eyesight (I’ve had glasses since I was 4) but I didn’t think it was like crazy bad. But when I talked to my friend recently they told me my astigmatism was really really high. I was thinking abt maybe getting contacts but now I’m not sure if I’ll be able to.
I'm 18, I got 5. CYL left eye and 3-3,5 CYL right eye. Wearing glasses has always been uncomfortable for me (since 5 😭). My astigmatism is so severe that it means I might not be a candidate for surgery (I’ll check in the future for certainty). I'm looking for lenses. Pls give me some advice on prices (in Asia) or anything about lenses 😭😭
For about eight months, I have been suffering from serious brain fog, fatigue, and headaches. I’ve had blood tests and sleep studies, which will come back with no issues and I’m healthy and fit.
I’ve never worn glasses and then just had an eye test where it showed I have astigmatism but very mild. (0.5 in both eyes). After five days of wearing my glasses all my fatigue, headaches and brain fog have gone. Is that normal or am I just somehow like weirdly imagining this??
It just seems so strange that this could be the cause.
I know that you don’t necessarily HAVE to see lines if you have astigmatism
But that’s why I’ve always thought I was just nearsighted
If I see lines, it’s because the light is very bright and big and the particles has it look like it’s pixelated or have a crayon effect
My lights are always brighter cause I stopped at a red light a blockish early when I was younger
I don’t see lines. I could maybe see the star burst but that’s kind of stretching it? The pixel look is helping the star burst effect. It’s like seeing the white blood cells in your vision and how it floats or seeing the adjustment of things under a microscope
There is a halo around the light sometimes but this I have a really bad memory when it comes to the halo every time, but I’m looking at my light projector at a distance and I’m not seeing too much (during the day) but it’s like there’s a shine on/behind it. But isn’t that normal? You look at light, it’s kind of shiny?
Regarding the ghost image, it’s a maybe? But I’m not confident about it. I just know I’ve seen them before and not on a screen but they’re hazy for me
For all I know, I don’t even have astigmatism and the eye doctor prolly misdiagnosed me
It’s kind of annoying to look up astigmatism and see the long clear lines from it.
Also, when it rains, isn’t it normal to loose sight of the white lines as the reflection makes it harder to see at night?
Edit: words starts to blur when phone or anything is father than a feet from me. I can still make do with daily life, just not reading from far away. I can even say I can drive during the day without glasses if I needed to (went without glasses cause I didn’t know I needed one)
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My contact prescription for my right eye is not for astigmatism, but my left is. My optometrist said it's because contacts will correct astigmatism without getting astigmatism contacts. How is that true?
My regular glasses prescription is
sph cyl axis add od -0.25 -0.75 180 os 0.00 -1.00 010
I’ve been on a vision journey for a while now. I’m near sighted with a +2.25 cyl (astigmatism) in my left eye and +4.5 cyl in my right. I couldn’t wear my prescription glasses because they were incredibly hard to walk in, my eyes couldn’t focus properly because of the contrast between the eyes, and they just felt warpy. So my eye doctor dumbed down my prescription to match (+2.25 in both eyes).
I’m still finding my glasses a little uncomfortable to walk in and I just don’t want to wear them all the time, but now I feel blind without them. So I tried contacts. I saw a different eye doctor and he decided to follow the dumbed down prescription rather than use my “real” 4.5 cyl prescription. He also said they don’t really make soft contacts in my real prescription anyway.
I’m experiencing this weird phenomenon where I can’t fully tell if the contacts are helping. It almost feels like how I thought my vision felt before I started wearing glasses, so in some ways it’s nice because it’s the only time I get clarity without feeling distracted by either glasses or just complete blurriness. But sometimes I feel crazy because it’s still not as sharp as I’d like it to be and almost crave the full correction because I love the feeling of contacts. I do think they’re working but it’s so subtle I can’t always tell.
Am I crazy? Has anyone else experienced this or have luck with contacts with high astigmatism? I’m considering XR contacts as this point.