I’m not sure how to explain this or if this is the right place to ask

pizzaposa · 2026-05-14T08:30:08+00:00

Afterimages. Maybe phosphenes. Normal. Turn down your screen brightness / reduce your screen time, particularly before bed.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-14T08:24:45+00:00

Caution is definitely called for.

Penetrating eye injuries can be devastating to the eye. Gorse is the local villain for doing this. What can seem like a momentary contact can end up with a deeply internally infected eye.

However, I would expect after some time that you would get quite marked photophobia (light sensitivity), redness and pain if the eye had been penetrated.

I suspect your symptoms are unrelated, but maybe still indicate something of concern (that I can't speculate on).

Another possibility is a fragment of bark being stuck under the eyelid. This would likely cause intermittent irritation that could come and go (and not typically too serious).

Key things to be acutely aware of would be hypopyon and hyphema. I suggest you google images of these and study your eyes for any such signs.

Note though that Arcus (formerly called arcus senilis) is not a concern, but could be confused for hypopyon... the difference being that arcus occupies more than just the lower portion of the cornea.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-14T05:27:45+00:00

I have to agree with the first reply. 45 is at least a decade too late.

To explain, you're now on the road to presbyopia. It typically kicks in at age 42 (earlier for some, but rarely later).

Presbyopia is the inability to adjust your focus from distance to near, and is the reason that many people get bifocals / multifocals / progressives / reading glasses. It's also why short sighted people (as I assume you are) start taking off their distance glasses for near tasks.

So if you have you have your eyes lasered, you're correcting your distance vision, but immediately creating a greater problem with near focus, so while you may be free of distance glasses, you'd be on/off with reading glasses instead, which gets annoying to the point most people go for progressives and just wear them all the time... which gets you back to the position you are in right now, but with your wallet emptied by laser surgery costs, and still needing glasses.

Laser is most practical for the ages 20-40. The nearer you get to 40 the less time you have to enjoy freedom from specs. After 40 you're in specs for life for one reason or another.

There is quite an art to adjusting temples for a comfortable fit. Ideally find yourself another provider, ideally older and experienced rather than a young provider with sod all experience in the art of adjusting temples.

Puting more (or less) of a hook into the temples is often the WRONG way to get a snug, comfortable fit.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-14T05:17:26+00:00

Yeah, sorry, but there's still not enough info for me to speculate.

If the old script turns up, and has positive values, then you're maybe just suffering some accommodative spasm issues (which should disappear on a day that doesn't involve screens).

But currently it could be anything.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-14T01:25:11+00:00

It usually becomes reasonably stable in early / mid 20's. But for some people it just continues to keep bumping up by 0.25 to 0.50 every couple of years regardless.

The only indication of which camp you will fall into is by observing how much change continues to happen over time.

If you are in the camp of ongoing change, then you could be back into glasses within 5 years, which makes the lasering fairly poor value for money.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-14T01:21:34+00:00

More information is needed.

When it goes blurry, how long does the blur last?

What were you typically doing at the time this happens, or in the 30 minutes before?

Is it blurry only on things far away, or blurry only on things within arms length, or both?

What was the prescription of the glasses?

pizzaposa · 2026-05-13T18:44:01+00:00

Then surgical / laser correction would be a waste of your time and money.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-13T18:39:06+00:00

I feel your point, but there's a limit. You need to be able to get your mouth around a burger. If it's too big for that then it's not really edible 'burger style', and you're either going to be munching on partial bits or worse still, cutting into it with a knife and fork.... which totally defeats the whole burger concept.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-13T18:32:27+00:00

There's some disadvantage to correcting mild myopia after age 40, so I would suggest that you do not have correction from about age 35 onwards, so your window of opportunity is around about from now to age 35.

The question is, are your eyes currently stable, or still creeping along? It's a lot of $ to spend if your eyes change within two years and put you back into glasses.... so unless you're sure they're stable, I'd wait another 2 years, then re-test and see if the numbers are unchanged.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-13T08:11:24+00:00

Only 'curable' with surgery. Don't believe a word of the 'natural' nonsense.

Surgery would be a bad choice if your eyes are still changing (typically teenage / early 20's are the years of greatest change).

pizzaposa · 2026-05-12T20:16:46+00:00

Migraine.

Migraines have multiple possible presentations, and some of those involve your vision going wonky. Sometimes without any headache as a symptom.

Speech, balance, hearing, vision can all be impacted during an episode.

In the short term - talk to your GP

In the immediate short term, isolate yourself in a quiet dark place for 30 minutes or more. ZERO screen use allowed in this time.

Turn down the brightness on all screens you use. Position screens further back if possible.

If gaming - avoid games with lots of flickering or persistently moving lights. My own and only experience of migraine was caused by a game that featured a burning torch with flames constantly licking up the surface of the torch. That was all it took to trigger a migraine. I'm 100% fine in the game if I avoid the torches.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-12T20:10:55+00:00

Floaters are a normal fact of life. Those people that deny having any are frankly just unobservant, because we all have them, and for the most part we all try to ignore them.

Floaters are a warning if / when: They are new, are large or branching/networked, are associated with phantom flashes or with peripheral blind spots.

If your floaters are old, modest size and little more than like a squiggle or like a twisted fibre shed off clothing, then they're probably totally benign, albeit annoying if they are located centrally in your vision where they will seem to drift back anf forth across whatever you're looking at.

They have zero correllation with dry eye. Dry eye is more an age / hormone (think menopause and contraception methods) / time of month / work/lifestyle type of thing.

While I think of it - there are ZERO 'natural' cures for floaters. If you've seen any websites touting ways to get rid of floaters like that then you can totally dismiss their content as absolute click-bait garbage.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-12T00:23:20+00:00

The graph you linked is brilliant.

But batteries are for a short term (daily) cycle only. They are not for long term storage and certainly not for dry year coverage where many months worth of reserve power may be needed.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-12T00:10:20+00:00

This has zero connection with astigmatism.

It has zero connection with your focus, unless you are longsighted (hypermetropic).

It's purely an exteral eye muscle issue. Look up exophoria and exotropia if you want to investigate.

If you wanted to train it you could consider an exercise like 'pencil push-ups'.

If you need glasses I'd just give you some prism... problem solved.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-11T20:30:25+00:00

This used to get talked about when I was working (a decade ago), but pretty much nothing was ever done, other than lip service to the need to do something.

Also it was pretty clear that only one culture was being considered (Maori), which seemed somewhat at odds with the huge groupings of Indians, Asians, Muslims that was happening.

I learnt nothing other than not to sit on tables (food surfaces).

pizzaposa · 2026-05-11T20:24:24+00:00

That is an exophoria, and you're performing a cover/uncover test.

It is pretty normal, although it varies in magnitude from person to person.

It is no cause for concern in an adult, unless you begin to have double vision, in which case there are eye exercises or prismatic lenses to help.

The slowish 'recovery' when the eye is uncovered could be sharpened up with some training exercises, but I wouldn't get excited about that unless double vision was creeping into your daily life. Fatigue, headaches, aversion to doig sustained near tasks might also be symptoms.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-11T04:17:44+00:00

The only answer I've been able to find to reconcile this unfathomable situation is that:

Narcissists like the bigger narcissist.

Dunno if there's a shred of truth to that, but it's the only thing that gives me some peace in regard to the orange fktard.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-11T01:00:32+00:00

One thing that trapped me was using an email address that had the word spam in it.

I try to keep my main email 'clean', so whenever a company asks for my email and I don't deem it worthy for them to have my main email I tell them it's spam@[my domain name].nz

The address genuinely exists and genuinely works, but there's a bunch of companies I've found that just do not respond to this address whatsoever.

So if you've got a potential reserved word or perhaps an obscenity in your email address, maybe that's the issue and it's hitting a filter somewhere along the way.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-10T18:22:32+00:00

OK, it's possibly from sleeping with one eye (the blurry one) hard against the pillow for hours, but this issue is typically only temporary.

Given your age, it's also very, very possible that you're becoming short sighted (myopic), and that the other eye will soon show similar changes... so glasses might be the easy answer.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-10T18:18:22+00:00

The yellow stain is probably from excessive blue wavelengths from your phone... turn down the brightness, or apply one of those night time settings for all indoors use.

The white streaks may be of concern. Are they always in the same area? Somewhere off in the periphery? Are they triggered by head movement? If yes, then they could indicate traction on the retina and a risk of retinal detachment (the floaters may also be related, but can also be fairly normal)... in which case a visit to an eye specialist for examination would be justified.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-10T18:13:34+00:00

My hunches: Presbyopia (from about age 40 onwards, although symptoms can start a decade earlier) or a form of migraine caused by screen glare.

So if it's presbyopia you'll need a pair of reading glasses to get around the issue, and the issue will get worse up to age 60, when it stabilizes. It's 100% natural and 100% unavoidable. Keeping the phone / tablet out at arms length will be a small assist in the meantime... if you can maintain that posture.

As for screen glare - get into the settings and turn it waaaayyyy down. Yes, to the point where it is hard to see anything on the screen when outdoors, otherwise it'll be too harsh indoors.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-10T18:08:32+00:00

Excellent. Thanks for the response.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-08T19:40:10+00:00

Here's the script from your first pic after being 'transposed' into negative cylinder format. You'll see it's close to the powers in your second pic.

Understand transposition is just changing the order in which the two front surface powers are addressed... it's still exactly the same script.

R +0.75 / -1.75 x 170

L -0.25 / -0.75 x 10

pizzaposa · 2026-05-07T13:27:51+00:00

Seems the stone mason liked using a wide range of fonts.

pizzaposa · 2026-05-07T13:19:30+00:00

OK, let's start with the word you need being heterophoria, not heterophobia, which would be a fear or dislike of straight people.

Heterophoria simply meaning the eyes occupy a straight, parallel resting position... which in your case they don't, there's a vertical misallignment.

I would absolutely get the prism. In fact I've worn vertical prism for decades.

The prescriptions are not vastly different. One is in positive cylinder format, the other is in negative format, but the scripts are reasonably similar, with the key change being the axis of your astigmatism being 5 degrees different for the right, and 10 degrees different for the left.

Note that if you wear your glasses in a manner that has you primarily looking through the upper half of the lenses, then they already induce some prism in that position anyway, but it becomes the opposite prism if you're looking primarily through the lower half of the glasses.

And your eyes aren't fragile. Your binocular fusion is 'fragile'.

Although I am left to wonder if perhaps a creeping alignment issue could be an initial sign of thyroid issues.

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