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aprilstarchildFound the piece of paper my vision Rx is written on:
OD (right eye): -400+200X113
OS (left eye): -375+250X070
Okay. So near as I can tell: in my right my nearsightedness is four diopters, and my hyperopic astigmatism is two diopters, at 113 degrees. In my left eye, my nearsightedness is 3.75 diopters and my hyperopic astigmatism is 2.5 diopters, at 70 degrees.
Apparently if my astigmatism is worse than two diopters, the correction I'm going to get with surgery is rather unlikely to be perfect.
This doesn't explain why my right eye is the one that sees worse with my contacts. Also, the base curvature of my corneas is 7.5. Which is, according to the eye people at work, pretty damn curvy. Hence the problems I had with soft torics.
Blargh.
Heh. Now I'm curious what everyone else's Rxs are. Post'em if you got'em.
I just looked up the definition for "hyperopic," and I think I must be reading the Rx wrong. In hyperopic astigmatism, if I'm looking at a grid/tic-tac-toe board, etc; the horizontal ones would be clearer. But I see the vertical ones more clearly. WTF?
OD (right eye): -400+200X113
OS (left eye): -375+250X070
Okay. So near as I can tell: in my right my nearsightedness is four diopters, and my hyperopic astigmatism is two diopters, at 113 degrees. In my left eye, my nearsightedness is 3.75 diopters and my hyperopic astigmatism is 2.5 diopters, at 70 degrees.
Apparently if my astigmatism is worse than two diopters, the correction I'm going to get with surgery is rather unlikely to be perfect.
This doesn't explain why my right eye is the one that sees worse with my contacts. Also, the base curvature of my corneas is 7.5. Which is, according to the eye people at work, pretty damn curvy. Hence the problems I had with soft torics.
Blargh.
Heh. Now I'm curious what everyone else's Rxs are. Post'em if you got'em.
I just looked up the definition for "hyperopic," and I think I must be reading the Rx wrong. In hyperopic astigmatism, if I'm looking at a grid/tic-tac-toe board, etc; the horizontal ones would be clearer. But I see the vertical ones more clearly. WTF?
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Date: 2006-02-09 06:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 06:18 am (UTC)It's frustrating. My glasses give me 20/15, but my contacts give me around 20/25 or 20/30. I get so frustrated trying to read things, whether close up or far away, with my contacts on. You can legally drive with that vision and no correction, but how do those people read any road signs!?
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Date: 2006-02-09 06:29 am (UTC)L: -125-25x060
i have no idea what this means but now you know - you can, like, cobble me together some sweet lenses or something...
curvaceous corneas, yo!
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Date: 2006-02-09 06:34 am (UTC)I don't remember what the tipping point is for them to correct astigimatism with glasses. But when they did....holy fucking moly. My eyes got worse really fast in high school, and I got new glasses every other year. My senior year was the first time I got my astigmatism corrected. For three days I walked around funny because it looked like everything was leaning towards me. The ground got further away and the ceiling got closer--I would look straight down on stairs and take them one foot at a time. Then one morning I put them on right when I woke up (I was in the habit of not putting on my glasses until just before I left for school), and I was fine.
My glasses are either on my head, next to my alarm clock, or by the sink when I take a shower. I can't read all that well without them...no one wants to sit six inches from their monitor, and even then it's blurry.
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Date: 2006-02-09 06:31 am (UTC)-tanjent
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Date: 2006-02-09 06:32 am (UTC)-tanjent
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Date: 2006-02-09 06:36 am (UTC)Supposedly RGP's (the hard lenses) will give better vision than soft lenses. That's so depressing. :^P Hard lenses suck.
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Date: 2006-02-09 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-09 03:40 pm (UTC)OS: spherical pe(or re?), cylindrical -2, axis 75
hmmm
Date: 2006-02-09 07:09 pm (UTC)-400-175x010
-400-225x160
for glasses:
-400-200x015
-400-250x160
Re: hmmm
Date: 2006-02-10 02:35 pm (UTC)Re: hmmm
Date: 2006-02-10 09:45 pm (UTC)