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-1.00 cylinder refers to the amount of correction needed to compensate for the cylindrical portion of your astigmatism, which is how warped (in the cylindrical direction) your eyeball is relative to a normal eyeball. Call your opthamolagist's office, they can tell you whether your cylindrical correction is better or worse than -1.00.
yes, I know what it is. But how they've been testing me is to put different lens in front of my eyes and then determine which gives my best vision. Then reading the astigmatism off the lens. So my question is: is it the astigmatism to bring you to your best vision, or is it if you can read the 20/20 line with -1.00
Sorry, I didn't understand your question. Your eye has the astigmatism, what the doctor reads off the lens is the correction required to compensate for your astigmatism and enable you to see without distortion. You might be able to read the 20/20 line without correction, but your astigmatism causes blurriness, and the lens required to correct for that blurriness is what the docs measure. So yes, in a sense, the correction brings you to your "best vision". Does that make any more sense?
D'oh. Written communication can be such a pain sometimes.
I'm sure we could hash this out in 30 seconds if we were face to face.
My best guess is that if the docs say your astigmatism is worse than -1.0, and even if you can read the 20/20 line with -1.0 or better, you're still considered outside the limits. Why? Because those opthamalogists like to make your life miserable.
LOL, but seriously, I think you need to send an email to NAMI and find out what they think.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. I tried!!
My best guess is that if the docs say your astigmatism is worse than -1.0, and even if you can read the 20/20 line with -1.0 or better, you're still considered outside the limits. Why? Because those opthamalogists like to make your life miserable.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. I tried!!
Oh.....I've been going round and round with my recruiter trying to figure out what exactly the standard is, if I can have PRK, will I get NPQd at OCS, what happens then, etc. Talk about communication errors!!! Man...ours isn't even close!! LOL
A call will be placed to NAMI though. Thanks for your help.
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