Not really, of course. I mean, I’m a good typist, but not quite that good.
Still, I suffer (really, it’s not fun) from some pretty severe myopia. It’s genetic, I think - my mom is the only sighted person I know whose eyes are worse than mine. Of course my dad has never worn glasses for a day in his life. Why couldn’t I have inherited those genes?
Anyway, I went to the eye doctor on Saturday and I have a brand new, even more hideous than before, prescription.
Right eye: -7.75
Left eye: -9.75
I’m just curious about how this stacks with other people. Does anyone else here have a similarly awful prescription? Or do I win the coveted Blindest Doper Award?
The good news is, other than the whole not working very well part, my eyes are perfectly healthy and not falling apart. Yay!
Can you wear contacts with such a strong prescription, Kyla?
My current prescription is:
Left eye: -4.25
Right eye: -4.5
It’s bad enough that I can’t see anything clearly further than a foot and a half in front of my face. I’m a hell of a squinter, though! That actually messes up my prescription a bit because I can’t help squinting even when I’m getting my eyes tested, and so the measurement isn’t quite accurate.
Yeah, but I have to wear gas permeable lenses. Soft lenses won’t cut it. Or, at least until recently. My new eye doctor that I just saw told me that if I wanted to, there’s a new soft lens on the market I could try. But I’m used to my gas permeable lenses, I’m not switching.
But one of the benefits of aging can be that your presbyopia actually improves your myopia; my eyes are now -7.0/-6.75. Unfortunately, I also have to have bifocals for reading or else take off my glasses and hold the book about 6 inches from my nose.
I tried contacts a few years ago and hated them. According to my last eye doctor, I will likely have to have intraocular implants before too long. My eyeballs are stretched out pretty good (well, pretty bad!). He also said I run a higher-than-normal risk of suffering detached retinas if I were to take a hit to the head.
I have not been impressed with what I’ve heard about LASIK, so I’ll pass on that procedure.
For those of you with severe vision loss who are planning on furthering your education, may I suggest that you speak with someone at your State Vocation Rehabilitation office? They were able to provide financial assistance to me.
I don’t know exactly what the standards are, but it’s worth looking into. In my case most of my vision is limited to one eye with only “finger vision” in the other eye.
I’m blind, too, if that makes you feel any better:
R: -9.5
L: -10.5
I’ve been wearing regular ol’ soft contacts for 17 years now, no problems. My doctor also told me I have a higher chance of retinal detachment.
I’ve always wondered how you could be considered “legally blind” if contacts or glasses correct to a decent standard. If there’s free money out there for me, I’m all for it!
I mean, um, sorry. That sounds really unfortunate.
I have astigmatism, too, but it’s just a bitty one, fortunately. I’d like to have Lasik, but a. broke, and b. there’s the part where I couldn’t wear contacts for three months before I had it done. THREE MONTHS with glasses? The horror…the horror…
I’m at a “high risk” for retinal detachment as well, but so far, so good. The best part is, I’m only 25 so I have many years of worsening vision to look forward to before my eyes start self-correcting.
Oh, and I looked up the definition of “legally blind” today, and I don’t meet it, not by a long shot. Apparently you have to have 20/200 vision at your highest level of correction. Since I can correct to 20/20, I guess I’ll have to keep working.
I went in for a Lasix evaluation a couple years ago, and was told the period of no contacts pre-op was 2 weeks. Which is 2 weeks too long for me to wear my glasses in public. NO WAY. I’d have to take a leave of absence from work and arrange it so I never had to leave the house.
3 MONTHS??!! :eek:
Oui. Doctor I saw on Saturday told me it’s a month plus a month for every decade you’ve worn contacts. Since I’ve worn contacts for 15 years, they’d want me to do it for three months. When I blanched at that, he told me I could do soft lenses for a couple months, then just glasses for another few weeks, but truthfully soft lenses skeeve me out.
My eyesight is just fine, but my right eye sits lower on hy head than my left eye. It’s not noticeable to look at me, but it’s enough that I get eyestrain from reading books or using the computer. I have a prism in the right lens to shift everything down a millimeter or so in order that both eyes can look straight ahead, instead of my right eye looking up and my left eye looking down.
Wow…that’s crazy! I can’t imagine having sight that bad. I’m lucky that I only inherited some of my dad’s eyesight. I don’t know his prescription, but he’s roughly 20/200 uncorrected. My mom and sister both have perfect vision. My mom is 20/15.
I am slightly nearsighted:
Left: -2.25
Right: -1.75
The doctor I saw last week told me that I’d have coke bottles if I had glass rather than poly lenses. And my prescription just is not bad at all!
L -3.25
R -3.75 slight astigmatism.
I’m 24 and I wear:
Left - 6.75
Right -6.50
I have no other problems besides the being blind part. My eye doctor did tell me to keep track of my floaters and the flashes of light I occasionally see because I’m also at risk for a detached retina.
Lucky me. I take after my mother. She’s somewhere around -12.00 in both eyes with a detached retina in her right eye.
The eye doctor I had most of my life told me I’d probably be legally blind by the time I’m 40 jerk
Last time I looked into Lasik, they said that your prescription had to be stable for at least 18 months. I don’t even manage 6 months so I guess that’s out for now.
