What Is Astigmatism and How Does It Affect Vision?
March 23rd, 2010 | See the Top Answers to this Question Below
Some one I knew said that with astigmatism the world looks curved in a way and that in the corner of the eye things appear stretched out. My doctor told me though that I can see clearly out of the corner of my eyes and my forward view is just a bit blurred. So how is the world really perceived with astigmatism? Can somebody explain this vision for me?
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umm…i believe when you have astigmatism it will look blurry left, right, and center, near or far. that’s because astigmatism is usually caused by a problem in your cornea, which covers the lenses of our eyes, which in turn focuses images on our retina and gets transmitted to the brain.
so if there’s a problem with the cornea, everything else gets affected.
I have it in my left eye but I barely noticed it before I was told I had it, but perhaps the astigmatism I have is only minor. Things were only a bit more blurry out of my left eye than my right, but I’m not sure of the perception being curved. There are different types of astigmatism though, but they all involve objects coming into sharp focus at separate distances.
i believe ,,,but im not a doctor. ,,, its your eye is out of round and because of that ,,, thats why you have bad vision. it does not distort things. just makes your vision bad. that why with lazer surgery they cut the eye to make it round so you see clear