Hi,
Ive just got an eye test. Result was sph -0.5 for each eye and slight astigmatism in one of the eyes (i forgot which one). The optometrist was going to give me prescription glasses (to help driving at night) but i thought that i did not need one. They usually jack up the price anyway. So, the question was do i need glasses?
For the past couple months or so, I have realised that my eyes don’t see so well when driving at night. Even with my glasses my eyes bother me, especially when car headlights hit my eyes. AHHHH its the worst! I go blind or see glares. I went to the optometrist and was diagnosed with astigmatism. I just want to know, anybody out there have this horrible and uncomfortable vision when driving at night? Does it get better over time, like will I get used to it? Because it sucks, I mean what? Am I not gonna be able to drive at night no more? Ahhhh I wish I could afford Lasik surgery.
He has to wear eyeglasses all of the time except when he goes to bed at night or when he showers. (It’s been this way since he was in the second grade.)
This is his first year playing football and he’s so excited! We have his yearly eye exam set up for this Wednesday and I’m wondering what to expect as far as what kind of eyewear is available to a kid like him who loves the idea of playing a contact sport like football but will have to wear something besides the typical pair of eyeglasses to be able to see at 100%.
He has played baseball for years and wore his normal eyeglasses for that, I never inquired about any other option.
I have luckily never had to deal with eye/vision problems myself growing up and nobody on my side of the family has either, so I don’t know what to look and ask for in regards to our son.
Has anyone else out there had to deal with this kind of situation? PLEASE GIVE ME SOME ADVICE!
One of his eye problems/diagnosis a few years back was astigmatism. I know each year we have went back for the exam to this same eye doctor, his prescription had to be stronger and thus a NEW LENSES PURCHASE ($$$) for our son.
The doctor says that this is completely normal while he’s growing and getting older. I worry that he’ll lose his vision entirely at the rate he’s supposedly going before he gets to be of adult age.
I got these new pair of eyeglasses at the beginning of the summer, but from the very beginning noticed an issue with them. I had been up to that point simply using contacts – almost 24-7 – and was eager to get a new pair of glasses for around-the-home and night-time use, as my old glasses were years behind my current vision impairment.
The problem is that, while they make my vision extremely sharp, they also ‘bend’ every vertical* and horizontal line that does not enter my vision from the direct center – creating an elliptical distortion of my vision – which gives me an enormous headache just seconds after looking through them. They are also quite a bit thicker than expected – just about as thick as my mother’s, even though her prescription is much greater than mine. (*I have a slight astigmatism in my left eye – which is usually corrected by my contacts – but this distortion is far worse, and in both eyes, and with even horizontal lines – which I’ve never had a problem with.)
This is where my current conundrum lies…
It has been almost 4 months since I’ve gotten the glasses. I haven’t really had a chance to take them back, and for a short while completely forgot about them simply reverting back to my contact-only routine. Will I still be able to go back and have the lenses fixed (or rather ‘replaced’) without having to pay another exorbitant amount of money?
The doctor was correct in his diagnosis and prescription, as that very prescription is used with my contacts – which, as I mentioned, work perfectly.
It was probably some idiotic lab technician who clumsily punched in the wrong figures into the computer – which does all the parabolic math anyway. Just as pharmacists have become indolent with new technologies making their work into nothing more than measuring, so too have those who make medical equipment.
I am accustom to glasses as well, and I can tell you that this distortion is very far from what is to expect.
Dr. Horn made my old eyes new! I didn’t realize how much I was missing, but now that my cataracts have been removed, I see EVERYTHING! I love not having to wear glasses.
