Astigmatism. The correction that is exceedingly rare in actual necessity. Yes, you probably didn’t actually have astigmatism the first time they gave you glasses with correction for it. Surprised? Incredulous? Not sure what to think?
Browse this section for science about astigmatism, how-to guides, and a whole lot of students who successfully reversed their lens-induced astigmatism. Odds are you won’t need this complex focal plane correction for long!
Fixing Astigmatism: Should You Do Laser, Or Go Natural?
From Ophthalmology Times:Lake Villa, IL—Use of a proprietary femtosecond laser system (LENSAR Laser System, LENSAR) is making astigmatism correction easy, efficient, and more accurate, according to Mitchell A. Jackson, MDA software upgrade introduced in 2015 (Streamline) enables wireless transmission of preoperative topography data and an infrared image of the undilated eye to the laser. Intraoperatively, iris registration automatically adjusts for cyclorotation, eliminating the need to mark the cornea.Arcuate incision planning using the nomogram the surgeon programmed into the laser is [...]
Optometrist Confirms: Astigmatism Is GONE!
File this under the category of "impossible", if you're an old-timey lens prescribing type of optometrist. Perhaps we should rebrand the site as some kind of school of wizardry sometime soon, considering the years and years and hundreds of students reporting these kinds of "impossible" results, and considering how all of this can't even be done. Old-timey optometry, vs. Jake's school of endmyopia wizards. Round 5917, posted today in the forum by Val: Hi Everyone, I just got back from [...]
Optometrist Says No To Toxic Astigmatism
You know my position on prescription complexity. No bueno. Ratio of diopters between left and right eye way out of control, all sorts of astigmatism correction, different for each eye, also with varying ratios and on this axis and that axis. Ugh. What a mess for your eyes. Of course you can't just quit such a prescription, cold turkey. It took years and years of slowly tying those knots into your focal planes. Now you have to go slowly and [...]
Optometrist Confirms: Roy’s (-0.75) Astigmatism Is Cured
I'm only using the words "astigmatism and cured" together, because Google. People search for these things. In reality, it's not a cure, because of course Roy's eyes were never ill in the first place. Astigmatism, in the majority of cases, is not an illness. Roy's eyes were simply affected by artificial focal plane changes, introduced by unnecessary prescription complexity with his previous glasses. Once Roy started working on the right kind of stimulus, and addressing prescriptions, his eyes adapted. Astigmatism "cured" [...]
Cindi’s Update: From -2.75 To Astigmatism Completely GONE!
Would you like to see a by-the-book approach to curing your own astigmatism completely? How about really high astigmatism, and in a pretty short period of time? Behold, a brilliant status update from Cindi in the forum: I started this process in Dec 2014. Decades ago I had done vision therapy with a behavioral ophthalmologist, and had a big improvement in my prescription. It might have been Bates method, I’m not sure, but I did use biofeedback to learn how to relax my [...]
Got Astigmatism? Don’t Rub Your Eyes!
Luke writes:Six months ago I decided I wanted to get vision correction surgery. I visited an ophthalmologist that specializes in LASEK (sic) for a consultation. To my dismay, the doctor told me I was not a good candidate for surgery due to possible sub-clinical keratoconus. He said there was nothing I could do about my myopia and astigmatism except get regular eye exams to track it's progression. He said if my eyes continue to worsen I will be at risk [...]