>tfw visionlet
>have about -2.25 astigmatism
>can't ever make eye contact with other people because if they're too far i can't see their pupils
>can't ever tell if someone is 100% looking at me or not
>everytime I'm looking at the gym mirror I get embarrassed because I can't see from far away
>refuse to use glasses (it makes me even uglier)
>too poor to afford good lenses
Eyelets, how do you cope with this? Is LASIK or PRK my only option out of this?
If you have a lean face ( <12-15% bf), you won't look dorky at all, provided you actually have a fit physique.
Other than that, just deal with the cards you have been given, I have -7.5 astigmatism on my left eye and -8 on my right. Some people are blind.
That's a lot of astigmatism, anon. Do you use lenses at all or plan to get surgery?
I do not use lenses.
I don't think I'm gonna do an eye surgery, because I plan competing on boxing and from what I have researched, the risk of retina detaching is much more increased after surgery.
It is good, but only if I bring it very close to my face
Your near-distance vision must be crazy good, I'm at a modest -4.5 and people tell me I can resolve detail they didn't even know existed
Fricking posers
Make way for the king
t. -14 left eye, -15,5 right eye
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Buddy I can't even tell faces apart if I'm not wearing my glasses and I'm at -4.5
>astigmatism
same boat
>tfw visionlet
> -5.75
>legally blind
>can't see myself in any mirror
>wear contact lenses
Wow amazing I can see now
How are you too poor for this but willing to get surgery
Wait, are you legally blind because of the -5.75?
The better eye is a -5 and both are astigmatic. Uncorrected my vision is worse than 20/500 or something, You're only blind in amerishart if the best correction you can get brings you to or less than 20/200. I see decent with correction. But otherwise I can't even see the top letter of an eye chart, there's only vaguely a shadow there
Where I live lenses are extremely expensive. I'd rather save money and get LASIK or PRK.
How do you guys even cope with having that much astigmatism? Mine is -2.25 one eye and -2.00 the other one and it already feels like fricking hell living like this. I always have that "yikes" facial expression at sunny days because they're sensitive and dry to light.
I just want to be able to see like a normal person, bros... I know my case is way better than anons in here and maybe I'm being a little b***h but holy frick, it's annoying being a visionlet.
>close one eye for a bit of time
>keep the other open
>switch beetween the two
>the one now has to adapt to vision for two second to see clear
maybe try exercising it since its all in your brain
Just squintmaxx
Wear contact lenses dumbass.
I have type 1 diabetes and am in the middle of figuring out if diabetic retinopathy is setting in, waiting for results from second set of pictures
Stop making up problems for yourself, homosexual
look at Contoura Lasik. Very good odds of much better than 20/20 vision
I was you but worse, just train your eyes by driving/riding without glasses and the survival pressure (DEATH) will make your eyes work thrice as hard. That or just to he eyepatch thing, I never tried it tho, might have spared me from a few road scares.
Pffff, you got it that ez, homosexual? Check this out:
1. Shortvision (-1.75 each eye)
2. Astigmatism in my right eye
3. Semi colorblind (can't see green and greenish colours)
4. Left eye has some sort of mechanical auto-degradation process and I will loose my sight in my left eye completely at some point in my life, leaving me with my shittier right eye.
And I still make eye contact af. I don't look confident though, everybody say's, that when I look them in the eyes, they see empitness of void or get scared away, either way, I have a psycho eye contact with people. Which is good, they get intimidated easily. Just look in the direction of their eyes, bro.
Oh, and btw, my sight is so shitty, I am unable to get driver's licence and can drive vehicles in ambient, synthetic light only.
>-2.25 with astigmatism
>Cant make eye contact
Bullshit. Youre autismal and making up nonsense excuses
.t thats my fricking prescription
Get fricking glasses or whatnot, idk, idc.
anon im a 6/10 at best, with glasses i turn into a nerdy 4/10
Your choices make your life, not the other way around, anon.
bates method
what is that, does it really work
I'm an optometrist; PRK/LASIK isn't a good idea for you because it can give you induced keratoconus because of the oval shape of your cornea.
If anyone wants to ask me anything ITT, I'd be happy to answer too btw.
I'm the OP, what should I do then? Are contacts my only hope? Didn't really like wearing contacts because all the cleaning and taking it out really pissed me off because my eyes are so sensitive and dry that everything that comes closer to them makes me blink.
I tried asking a surgeon where I live and he said he doesn't do LASIK anymore because of the risks, only PRK, that scared me.
Contacts are pretty much your only hope until you want to get pre-emptive cataract surgery (aka refractive lens exchange).
Try Dailies Total 1 for Astigmatism for a dailies brand. For a monthly brand, try Coopervision Bionfinity Torics. Both of them are pretty comfortable.
Practice suppressing your blink reflex by doing dry eye drops 4-6xday and getting used to something going into your eye. You don't need anything special, just something like Systane Ultra.
are yearly contacts bad, anon? for astigmatism
Yearly contacts are atrocious. They are massively unsafe; they cause horrible infections and neovascularisation of the cornea. RGPs if you want a long term contact lens are much, much safer and sometimes cheaper, and you don't have to change those if you take care of them. I wear RGPs because soft lenses make my eyes dry too but I have a bigger prescription than you so I wouldn't recommend them.
Thank you, doc.
No worries man.