Literally me for decades. My astigmatism wasn't diagnosed until 2-3 years ago despite yearly (or semi-yearly) visits to the optometrist. Thought that was just how lights looked in the dark lol.
I was at the optometrist explaining the streaky lights AS I WAS WALKING OUT WITH A PRESCRIPTION FOR MY ASTIGMATISM and the doc was like "you were probably squinting, causing that effect". Bro
I was getting my pupils dilated for the optometrist to properly measure the extent of my astigmatism.
Had never had that procedure done before.
...As I am leaving, with eyes blurry as fuck from being dilated...
Receptionist tells me if I leave now, I might be able to dodge rush hour.
... I wish I could have actually seen the expression on her face when she said that, but I couldn't.
Due to being temporarily legally blind.
From the procedure that she had just-
sigh
So yeah I made it about two blocks in my car, said NOPE, and just fucking sat in a parking lot for something like an hour, till I could fucking see again.
American health care just literally is a sadistic joke.
Lol I had the same procedure and sat in my car after calling someone to come pick me up, but they took too long and I decided to just drive myself anyways. I couldn't read signs, but traffic lights and other cars were visible enough. I bet there are a lot of old people on the road driving around regularly with eyesight that bad or worse.
Same. “If you get laser surgery you might get a starburst” but that’s what I see already, I don’t know what you mean. It took a while to get the rotation properly tuned in too.
(Since they tuned in the astigmatism and with the risk of side effects I decided no laser.)
Consider that once the laser you, your astigmatism is gone: even if you need corrective lenses, they're much simpler than they could be.
As an example, my twin got his eyes done when he was rocking some serious coke-bottle lenses and working the fancy FAANG jobs and livin' large. He's had a coupla tune-ups, but never for the astigmatism. (and, even now, they've tuned one eye for close focus and the brain still copes, drastically reducing his need for presbyopia lenses)
I have 20/15 with glasses and astigmatism correction has eliminated the starbursting issue, so my (difficult) decision was that unnecessary surgery that could leave me with some combination of still needing glasses, poor night vision, starbursting, and especially dry eyes led me to decide to just settle for glasses.
I’m up to about $700 a pair these days (high fashion frames ain’t cheap, and they match my sweatpants) every two years or so, but it’s almost 100% insurance covered and they’d only cover 10% of my eventual laser bill.
Don't think you get dry eyes and the sticky eye lid with LASIK. My buddy who got PRK (army boon lol) does complain about it though.
The only thing I got now is minor starburst, but I regret nothing. Ten years in and my vision got a bit worse, -87 diopter to -0.5 on both eyes after surgery to -1/1.5 now. But I'm above forty five so it's normal. I could probably go for a corrective surgery.
However you know how trans people feel before transitioning? Body dismoprhia or dysphoria. While I was not in distress, looking into the mirror while I was still wearing glasses I was not seeing myself, but a stranger. Getting the surgery helped with that to an immediate effect, along with boosting my self confidence.
really? I like my glasses and I think they bring some personality to my face
Long-time glasses-wearer. My face looks wrong without them, like someone missing their eyebrows. It is interesting how many little things around us are so different for us, like finding sunglasses that sit nicely, protective eyewear that isn't kept too far away by my glasses' corners, hats (less commonly a problem), any kind of helmet that approaches or covers the ears, headsets (I swear by earhooks). Not to mention the circumstances that fog them up, like sudden temperature changes (exiting a cooler building or car into a hot outside) or getting hit with a blast of steam from the kettle, oven, or whatever. Fog city, takes awhile to clear up during which I'm either blind because of fog or because of no glasses.
During the pandemic time where everyone had to wear masks, my glasses fog up like every second and I had no other option, either remove my glasses or remove the mask, I picked neither and continued to struggle. I hate fog with a passion lmao
This can also really depend on the windshield. It looks exactly like this in my ~40 year old car due to all the microscopic scratches the glass has accumulated over time. I should probably have it replaced at some point.
This is me, but replace the windshield with my eyes.
i'm pretty sure you can buff those out with special glass polishing stuff
The streaking was so bad on mine that I bit the bullet and just replaced the windshield.
Mine isn't that bad - only 20 years old but has seen all sorts of things from rocks and sand to hail and is just pitted bad enough to be annoying. But it's that fact that I've seen the abuse it's gone through without the first hairline crack that makes me cautious to get rid of something that's stood the test of time. It's either the angle or the glass (doubtful), but at this point it can't be just luck, right? I just hear horror stories of replacement glass that isn't fitted right, leaks, or breaks early on. I can deal with it a bit longer.
Polish it.
That looks like the windshield’s fault. Time to wash your car.
OP might also need glassed, my vision looked less worser than this but similar in the distance before I got glasses
Young friend of mine was checking out my new red-dot sight.
"Why does it look like a star?"
"Oh. I have bad news for you."
Don't think he believed me but he's in the Air Force now and no corrective lenses. 🤷🏻♂️
At least the starbursts make street lights pretty at night 🫠
Either your windows need cleaning / defogging, you got some shit coating on it
You could actually need glasses and I say this as someone who wasn't aware they needed glasses for distance for most of their life, your vision looking like this especially with the the light halos and blurriness in the distance
Its called astigmatism
And like a driver can get used to things on the windshield, you can also tune out star bursts. I do agree they're distracting but it doesn't necessarily mean you can't drive safely with those.
Clean your glasses!
Astigmatisms can't be cleaned away.
It's a joke, Joyce.
Oh fuck, how did you know my name?? 😳 This is spooky.
Their username, Almacca, can be rearranged to spell Am A Calc.
I wonder if theyre good at calculus.
Or have excess calcium deposits somewhere in their body.
Or if they're a calculator.
Them being a calculator was my takeaway.
I used to think my own sight was bad enough. I get little tiny Starbursts around lights. And I mean tiny. This dot - • - would look like the same dot with a / plastered on top.
Finding out the OP picture is how my wife sees the world at night was a little mind blowing. I knew it could get bad, but damn.
and that's without the LED headlights pointing at you!
Due to a childhood accident, I have a vastly different astigmatism in each eye so the lines and streaks are all double vision and ghostly.
Rubber band to the eye? C'mon tell us more! My astigmatism is pretty bad too.
When I was 6 our cursed VCR ate my Aladdin tape. I took apart the VCR to try to rescue the tape and ended up with a small spring tearing the cornea and iris of my right eye.
I am insanely lucky that a family friend just happened to be one of the nation’s foremost pediatric ophthalmologists and that my hometown has an excellent optometry school or I may have lost my eye. Somewhere there are case studies that were done on my eye. I ended up having to wear an eyepatch for a few weeks too which made me the coolest first grader ever.
As long as they stay vertical you're fine.
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