Any of you have astigmatism?

[UnatcoAgent]

I've been told a few times that I have astigmatism in my eyes, which is where instead of a circle, your eye is shaped more like a football. In turn, light entering your eye becomes distorted and can cause an array of vision problems.

Never really been a problem, except I just noticed that looking at the vertical lines of my radiator from down the hall really messes with my eyes, they go all wavy just off center from where I'm focusing. The weird part is that it's fine as soon as I close one eye, or if I'm closer than 10 feet. Apparently my family gets this also, and why vertical lined wallpaper is apparently not popular in our house.

Strange.

 

[BoomerD]

Yep. Not horrible astigmatism, but bad enough that I have to have prescription glasses, the "on-the-rack" reading glasses sold in the stores don't work for me.

 

[krylon]

Originally posted by: Sabot
I've been told a few times that I have astigmatism in my eyes, which is where instead of a circle, your eye is shaped more like a football. In turn, light entering your eye becomes distorted and can cause an array of vision problems.

Never really been a problem, except I just noticed that looking at the vertical lines of my radiator from down the hall really messes with my eyes, they go all wavy just off center from where I'm focusing. The weird part is that it's fine as soon as I close one eye, or if I'm closer than 10 feet. Apparently my family gets this also, and why vertical lined wallpaper is apparently not popular in our house.

Strange.

Wallpaper is fail

 

[Gothgar]

yeah I got one, and my vision blows in my right eye

left eye aint too bad

 

[nakedfrog]

Hm, I do have astigmatism, but haven't noticed what you're talking about. I do have a pronounced dislike for striped shirts.

 

[gwlam12]

Yes I do and I wear toric lens instead of regular contact lens because of this.

 

[UnatcoAgent]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Hm, I do have astigmatism, but haven't noticed what you're talking about. I do have a pronounced dislike for striped shirts.

Hah, striped shirts, especially vertical striped shirts are a statement, to say the least.

I just noticed this a few days ago, I haven't noticed it with anything else which is the odd part. Even our window blinds, which are horizontal, there's nothing. Only the radiator.

 

[queenrobot]

I have astigmatism in both eyes, more pronounced in my right eye. I have noticed this before, but not often.

 

[darkxshade]

Is this also the same condition that makes a lightbulb at a distance look like a star instead of a circle?

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Hm, I do have astigmatism...I do have a pronounced dislike for striped shirts.

Me too. If the stripes are thin and of contrasting colors, I instantly get a headache from looking at or near them. My astigmatism is mild.

 

[Proprioceptive]

Hmm... astigmatism here, but all it does is make far away, small details a little hazy. I need glasses to read far away boards and words, particularly street signs at night.

 

[Zenmervolt]

I have astigmatism as well, but it's bad enough that the effect you describe is lost in the fuzziness of the entire image being out of focus. If I wear my glasses, they correct the anomalies from the astigmatism so I don't notice it then either.

ZV

 

[markgm]

I had it lasered away.

 

[UnatcoAgent]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
I have astigmatism as well, but it's bad enough that the effect you describe is lost in the fuzziness of the entire image being out of focus. If I wear my glasses, they correct the anomalies from the astigmatism so I don't notice it then either.

ZV

My glasses don't really make a difference, but I think these are an older prescription and not meant to combat the astigmatism. Not sure, either way I have an eye exam coming up in September and we'll see what they say then.

 

[eplebnista]

No astigmatism, but I do have mild nystagmus. My eyes do not move constantly but I can't follow objects from right to left, so I have trouble reading the streaming text at the bottom of tv screens as well as some trouble following the course roads take around curves, especially while driving at night.

 

[Darthvoy]

yeah i have it too, but I haven't noticed any visual distortions without my glasses on, maybe because I haven't paid attention to it.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I have it, The only time it gets me is if I like at irregular textured things. When I look at them there is a mirage like shimmer to them. I had to scrape the popcorn ceilings at our new house because of it.

 

[imported_Imp]

Yep, which is why my contacts cost almost double. Boo-urns.

Mines is only -1.00 and -0.75, forget which is which eye, but it's noticable. I tried cheaping out, and thinking that I wouldn't notice when using regular non-toric lenses. Ended up trashing those (read: gave back to doctor for 50%).

 

[paulney]

Yes, I do - in one eye. But it's not very pronounced, and it's the type that goes away with age.

Funny, I never noticed it. But when I went in for an exam, and they gave me a test wherein you sit and watch a screen with one eye, and press a button every time a group of lines shows up randomly, there was a blind spot where I could not see anything. I realized the test is still going on, and the damn lines do show up somewhere, but I just can't see them - no way there's a pause that big between lines showing up. Sure enough - I had astigmatism, and upper right hand corner was seeing worse than the rest of the eye.

I still wear regular glasses and lenses, and I'm fine.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: krylon

Originally posted by: Sabot
I've been told a few times that I have astigmatism in my eyes, which is where instead of a circle, your eye is shaped more like a football. In turn, light entering your eye becomes distorted and can cause an array of vision problems.

Never really been a problem, except I just noticed that looking at the vertical lines of my radiator from down the hall really messes with my eyes, they go all wavy just off center from where I'm focusing. The weird part is that it's fine as soon as I close one eye, or if I'm closer than 10 feet. Apparently my family gets this also, and why vertical lined wallpaper is apparently not popular in our house.

Strange.

Wallpaper is fail

only with the 'McMansion' crowd and then in between that demographic when people can afford patterns hand-applied on their walls.

I have astigmatism. don't have these problems as without my lenses I fucking can't see well enough to tell lines are bent.

 

[brtspears2]

I've been told I have it in both my eyes but I can't tell the difference. I can still pass the DMV vision test without glasses.

 

[Plewallen035]

@UnatcoAgent
personally i have had a double astigmatism diagnosed since 3rd grade US (8 yrs of age). I have always noticed that diamond plated steel hypnotizes me and makes me dizzy, as well as trying to stare through chainlink fence (the dugouts in baseball)
Along with these things, i have always seen dramatic energy waves off the ground and electric appliances. Also “lightbulb” / “auras” around the heads of most people, entire bodies of some. Its only gotten more intense over the years. (30 years old as of this year).

 

[Mayne]

Yes I do...never bothered me my whole life until the doctor told me.