Eyesight question

[chuckywang]

When the vision from your right eye and your left eye don't match for objects at a reasonable distance, is this astigmatism?

 

[Colt45]

its "having one eye that sucks", officially.


isn't astigmatism misshapen eyes or something?

 

[aircooled]

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/astigmatism.htm

 

[Tremulant]

Originally posted by: Colt45
its "having one eye that sucks", officially.


isn't astigmatism misshapen eyes or something?

I have astigmatism (although very slight), I had glasses for it 5 years ago, but there was a very light prescription in my left eye and none in my right, so I didn't wear them.

But it's gotten worse lately (especially night driving), so I went to the eye doc.
I'm actually supposed to pick up my glasses today.

Info


Edit: the man with the white cat beat me. I took too much time typing.

 

[sixone]

I was diagnosed with astigmatism at the age of 5. Wore glasses for 5 years, when my parents could get me to keep them on. I didn't need them much, and finally they said the astigmatism was completely gone. I've had perfect vision ever since, but my brother wasn't so lucky. He's still got glasses.

 

[chuckywang]

Yeah, I've had glasses for a while as well. It's just that when I look out of my right eye, and then compare that vision with the one out of my left eye, the image "shifts", i.e they don't match.

 

[allisolm]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Yeah, I've had glasses for a while as well. It's just that when I look out of my right eye, and then compare that vision with the one out of my left eye, the image "shifts", i.e they don't match.

That sounds more like eye dominance , which most people have, like handedness.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: allisolm

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Yeah, I've had glasses for a while as well. It's just that when I look out of my right eye, and then compare that vision with the one out of my left eye, the image "shifts", i.e they don't match.

That sounds more like eye dominance , which most people have, like handedness.

Weird...I'm right handed but my left eye is much better than my right eye, so I prefer to use my left eye when using a camera.

 

[Tremulant]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: allisolm

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Yeah, I've had glasses for a while as well. It's just that when I look out of my right eye, and then compare that vision with the one out of my left eye, the image "shifts", i.e they don't match.

That sounds more like eye dominance , which most people have, like handedness.

Weird...I'm right handed but my left eye is much better than my right eye, so I prefer to use my left eye when using a camera.

My dad is right-handed, but left-eye dominant. It's weird, but for him it makes sense. When he plays baseball, he actually hits better from the left side of the plate.

I'm left-handed, left-eye dominant.

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: allisolm

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Yeah, I've had glasses for a while as well. It's just that when I look out of my right eye, and then compare that vision with the one out of my left eye, the image "shifts", i.e they don't match.

That sounds more like eye dominance , which most people have, like handedness.

Weird...I'm right handed but my left eye is much better than my right eye, so I prefer to use my left eye when using a camera.

That's because the left side of your brain controls the muscles on the right side of your body, and the right side controls the left.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: sixone

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: allisolm

Originally posted by: chuckywang
Yeah, I've had glasses for a while as well. It's just that when I look out of my right eye, and then compare that vision with the one out of my left eye, the image "shifts", i.e they don't match.

That sounds more like eye dominance , which most people have, like handedness.

Weird...I'm right handed but my left eye is much better than my right eye, so I prefer to use my left eye when using a camera.

That's because the left side of your brain controls the muscles on the right side of your body, and the right side controls the left.

For a right handed person it is usually the right eye that is dominant.

 

[Kaieye]

I was recently diagnosed with Emmatropia and I am sad. Please wish me luck for the future...

 

[montanafan]

That's emmetropia, I believe. And congratulations on your normal vision.

 

[PHiuR]

i have astigmatism but i'm just kind of used to it. my doc said that if it starts bothering me I can just go in and get toric contacts / astigmatism glasses.

 

[PHiuR]

oh yea, at night - looking at lights is pretty cool. it makes it look like a stand still fire work. theres a center light and then just rings around it...:Q

 

[sciencewhiz]

Left foot, Right hand, Left eye.

Anything that requires fine motor skills, I do right handed. I bat right handed, but I fence left handed.