Eye problems of UF.

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I was wondering if anyone else has vision impairment or an eyesight problem of some kind.

Please do not post graphic (real) images of eyes unless they're in a spoiler with a small description of what it is, as I am incredibly eye squeamish. So eye squeamish it's probably honestly a phobia.

I'll have y'all know I only cried at the optometrist 4 times.
- Once in the waiting room
- Once at the first machine where they focus an image of a house
- Once when the nurse asked me questions about medical history (?????, I know, what the fvck)
- Aaaaaaand every time the doctor himself spoke with me OTL;;;;

(edit also I CANNOT handle the glaucoma test - I've never, ever been able to stay calm and just do it. Well, back when it was that spurty spurt of air, I could, but now that shit touches your actual eyes (even tho they're numb, that shit's my b i g g e s t fear) I just cannot even try. I cry at the idea tbh lmao)

So, about me:
I've got an astigmatism. I was born with it, haha. I personally think it's because I was born 3 months early, but I know my twin's eyesight is much worse (she won't let the doctors examine her eyes). I learned recently though my dad has it, too. (I was out of contact with him for a very long time.)

My corneas are incorrectly shaped, causing light rays to focus on multiple points of my retina instead of one, thus causing multiple images. My image isn't really what I'd call 'blurry', it just isn't....sharp. Like, I can still tell what things are, the edges and details just are a little fuzzy. The worst thing for me is how bad my ghosting is - usually the real image plus 2 faint ones in my right eye, and the real image plus a second in my left. It's a refractive error.

Have some terribly edited images in an attempt to understand. Haha.

Right eye
Left eye
Together

Plus a little blur, which I didn't include. lmao.

As you can see, it would be difficult to read this way. In fact, for a time, I had to leave UF because reading was such a headache.

It's much worse at far distances, and it gets lesser the closer I get to an object.
Reading sucked since I was seeing so many of the same line, and lines would be covered by other lines. It was terrible. I'm only 20 ^__^; I feel like it'll get a lot worse before I'm 30, haha. The only option for correction is glasses, contacts, or surgery to reshape my corneas, but since they can't put me under for that, and because I'm more eye squeamish than anything else, that's a no go for me, hah....nnnn....

What about you guys?
 

WinterdrivE

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I'm just severely near-sighted. My right eye's slightly worse than my left, but either way for a paper with standard 12 pt font to be legible it has to be about an inch and a half from my face. Without my glasses, I wouldn't be able to tell you the top letter on the eyesight chart things was an E if I didn't already know it was an E. I also have an astigmatism, but idk exactly how bad it is. I do know my left contact is -7 and my right one is -8.

I couldn't get glasses made at one of the glasses stores I went to because they couldn't make lenses with a combined prescription of more than -12 OTL

Thankfully my prescription hasn't really changed the past few years, though.
 
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Ooh, I also found out at my eye appointment that apparently I am near sighted as well, which I never knew for sure.
I couldn't read the eye chart at all with my right eye alone. Things overlapped so bad I couldn't make head or tail.
I learned how much I really rely on my left eye for reading when I don't have my glasses, haha.

Hmm..... what numbers for your prescription are -7 and -8, do you know?
Looking at my own prescription, there are a lot of categories -7 or -8 could be, but I'm no expert, so I have no clue tbh, haha.

My astigmatism prescription is

Right eye / OD

Sphere: -1.00
Cylinder: -2.75
Axis: 172

Left eye / OS
Sphere: -0.25
Cylinder: -2.25
Axis: 177

29.5/31.5 dist pd

Here's a guide on what this means, since I had to google it forever.
However, my dist pd was taken one eye at a time, which is why there are 2 numbers (apparently??), so here's how to read that kind of method.
 

OngakuCD

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Im extremely near sighted as well and my vision is clear without aid for only about 18 inch. Anything beyond 18 inches is essentially shapes blurred together. When its really bright outside, I can't even walk straight without my glasses because my depth perception is thrown off.

My new contact prescription is
PWR (F'v) -3.50
BC 8.5
DIA 14.2

If I pull my eyelids to the side I can see clear as if nothing is wrong (but its extremely unconformable I do it when I loose my glasses XD). Maybe my eyes aren't that bad and laser can fix them. But I'm scared because I've heard shady things happening to some people getting laser correction such as going blind in one eye and having double vision in the other.
 

Skiyoshi 十三

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I have astigmatism as well. Been wearing glasses for pretty much my whole life. I don't really know the specifics of my prescription but I know my eyesight has been getting worse lately.

Curse you white text on black background!!!
 
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Mougeki Mero

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I have myopia, and it gets worse each year XD
A funny story about it happened yesterday: I was cleaning the house, and everything seemed...well, clean! My mother started yelling at me because the house was still dirty, etc etc. I didnt get it at all, since she always complain about it...However, I accidentally let a pencil fall, and when I turned down I noticed the floor was still very dirty...I put on my glasses AND I COULD FINALLY SEE EVERYTHING. As from yesterday I will always clean my house wearing glasses.
 

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(edit also I CANNOT handle the glaucoma test - I've never, ever been able to stay calm and just do it. Well, back when it was that spurty spurt of air, I could, but now that shit touches your actual eyes (even tho they're numb, that shit's my b i g g e s t fear) I just cannot even try. I cry at the idea tbh lmao)
Why would they change that from the air spurt to something that touches your eyes? I mean, I guess in makes sense if it's more accurate but still, I couldn't do that either and just the thought sends chills through my whole body.
I think they haven't changed it in Canada (yet), or at the very least not at the place I went to get my eyes tested recently.
 
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Why would they change that from the air spurt to something that touches your eyes? I mean, I guess in makes sense if it's more accurate but still, I couldn't do that either and just the thought sends chills through my whole body.
I think they haven't changed it in Canada (yet), or at the very least not at the place I went to get my eyes tested recently.
The updated glaucoma methods do touch your eyes (yet, they're numbed beforehand with eye drops).
It is said most people prefer this method, as it's 'less traumatic' than the air spurt method. It's also more accurate and takes only a few seconds per eye.

But for me it's more traumatic OTL
I can't stomach the thought that anything will DIRECTLY touch my eyes, even if I can't feel it.
 
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WinterdrivE

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The updated glaucoma methods do touch your eyes (yet, they're numbed beforehand with eye drops).
It is said most people prefer this method, as it's 'less traumatic' than the air spurt method. It's also more accurate and takes only a few seconds per eye.

But for me it's more traumatic OTL
I can't stomach the thought that anything will DIRECTLY touch my eyes, even if I can't feel it.
>Only a few seconds per eye

The puff of air takes a fraction of a second per eye AND NOTHING TOUCHES MY FRIKKIN EYEBALL.

I haven't been to the eye doctor in a while, so i didn't know they updated the test, but holy crap that sounds awful and terrifying.
 
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I know OTL
Someday I will have to face it....