Contacts for high astigmatism?
I’ve been on a vision journey for a while now. I’m near sighted with a +2.25 cyl (astigmatism) in my left eye and +4.5 cyl in my right. I couldn’t wear my prescription glasses because they were incredibly hard to walk in, my eyes couldn’t focus properly because of the contrast between the eyes, and they just felt warpy. So my eye doctor dumbed down my prescription to match (+2.25 in both eyes).
I’m still finding my glasses a little uncomfortable to walk in and I just don’t want to wear them all the time, but now I feel blind without them. So I tried contacts. I saw a different eye doctor and he decided to follow the dumbed down prescription rather than use my “real” 4.5 cyl prescription. He also said they don’t really make soft contacts in my real prescription anyway.
I’m experiencing this weird phenomenon where I can’t fully tell if the contacts are helping. It almost feels like how I thought my vision felt before I started wearing glasses, so in some ways it’s nice because it’s the only time I get clarity without feeling distracted by either glasses or just complete blurriness. But sometimes I feel crazy because it’s still not as sharp as I’d like it to be and almost crave the full correction because I love the feeling of contacts. I do think they’re working but it’s so subtle I can’t always tell.
Am I crazy? Has anyone else experienced this or have luck with contacts with high astigmatism? I’m considering XR contacts as this point.