I wear glasses. I’m myopic, with a prescription of -4.75 diopters in my left eye (big fuzzy blur) and -2.00 in my right eye (not so bad). My right eye also has a little astigmatism. My prescription has been fairly stable for years.
About six months ago I noticed something odd - point objects such as small bright lights were growing “tails” when looked at with my right eye. A period looked like a comma. This got rapidly worse.
I took it to my optician who said that my prescription had changed quite rapidly, with a lot more astigmatism. He also said that my eye showed traces of surface damage as if I’d been wearing contacts for too long, but it wasn’t really significant. I hadn’t worn contacts for weeks anyway. Since this was strange, he asked me to come back for a follow-up in two weeks.
At the follow-up, my prescription had changed again. The axis of my astimatism had altered. Baffled, he decided it was time for the eye hospital. The advantage of the British NHS is that this is free. The disadvantage is that I have to wait until June of next year unless the condition starts to give me serious problems.
I’ve been living with this for a few months. It doesn’t impair me, my left eye works fine with glasses. Didn’t seem to be getting any better or worse. It was annoying though, since I depend on my right eye to see without glasses.
This morning, my right eye was itchy. I rubbed it which made it worse - it felt that there was something stuck in there. I held my eyelid away from my eye and rolled it around. That fixed it.
Then I noticed that I could read my clock across the room without glasses for the first time in months. My right eye is a lot better. In fact, I can see better through my right eye without my glasses that with them. It’s not perfect by any means, but it’s improved.
Any idea what’s going on? My optician said that they occasionally see strange problems which go away of their own accord. How does this happen?
In the meantime I’m taking the right lens out of my glasses, which is going to look freaky…