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letters swimming away from me
May. 24th, 2006 08:08 pmAbout a year ago, I realized that I sit badly because I see badly, and leaning back into a chair never gets me close enough to see screens - and that was a good push to get me to go and get contacts.
I got them, and it took a lot of adjustment with the doc, because the world kept going swimmy when I tried to read things up close.
I wore contacts like a good kid for a few months, but took them out right before burning man ... and never put them back in.
Until today, that is. And guess what? Now, the world is super swimmy. Or, the computer screen is - it's only when I try to focus on text, especially text that is close by, that it gets back. It basically looks like the flicker you see when the refresh rate is set to low, along with the white space between dark lines (or, lighter lines between dark space) doing a flickering-glow thing. If I close my left eye, everything is crisp and clear. If I close my right eye, text is big enough (and possibly a little bigger then what I see with my right eye), but shadowed over by red (my brain not used to not getting data from the right eye, and still trying to see out of a closed eye) and swimmy.
I'm thinking it's some combination of my brain really not being used to getting input from the left eye, my mild astigmatism showing through and the left eye prescription possibly being too strong. And I definately know that I should keep these in for a couple of days to see how my brain adjusts. But my eye insurance is lousy, and I hate the idea of having to pay for another exam, contacts fitting and contacts themselves out of pocket.
(ftr, the prescription in my right eye is +.5 and the prescription in my left is +3.5; this is much better then the +5 I had in both eyes when I first got glasses at age 4, but worse then the +2 my last glasses prescription was 15 years ago.)
I got them, and it took a lot of adjustment with the doc, because the world kept going swimmy when I tried to read things up close.
I wore contacts like a good kid for a few months, but took them out right before burning man ... and never put them back in.
Until today, that is. And guess what? Now, the world is super swimmy. Or, the computer screen is - it's only when I try to focus on text, especially text that is close by, that it gets back. It basically looks like the flicker you see when the refresh rate is set to low, along with the white space between dark lines (or, lighter lines between dark space) doing a flickering-glow thing. If I close my left eye, everything is crisp and clear. If I close my right eye, text is big enough (and possibly a little bigger then what I see with my right eye), but shadowed over by red (my brain not used to not getting data from the right eye, and still trying to see out of a closed eye) and swimmy.
I'm thinking it's some combination of my brain really not being used to getting input from the left eye, my mild astigmatism showing through and the left eye prescription possibly being too strong. And I definately know that I should keep these in for a couple of days to see how my brain adjusts. But my eye insurance is lousy, and I hate the idea of having to pay for another exam, contacts fitting and contacts themselves out of pocket.
(ftr, the prescription in my right eye is +.5 and the prescription in my left is +3.5; this is much better then the +5 I had in both eyes when I first got glasses at age 4, but worse then the +2 my last glasses prescription was 15 years ago.)
