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Please tell me how does astigmatism/myopia affect vision?

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Visual blur: Myopia causes blurred images more significant the farther away the object is located for viewing. Astigmatism causes an elongated distorted due to the fact that it arises when the eye is a bit oval in shape. They can occur together. Most of these can be corrected with proper eyeglasses or contacts lenses.

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Answered 1/5/2014

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I'm a 16 female with a myopia of -7D. I am seeing rainbow coloured strokes around lights at night (like how in astigmatism we see strokes , in my case there are 3-4 strokes but rainbow coloured) The Rainbow is not around a halo What is it please tell?

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While staring at horizontal lines image in mobile phone my vision becomes shaky. This is happening from many years. I'm high myopic and have astigmatism. I keep focusing at the lines in an image in mobile don't know what is this phenomenon?

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I have a fairly high degree of myopia with a touch of astigmatism. I was fitted for a pair of contacts over 6 years ago that were fantastic. Recent pairs havent been as good. Is there anyway to determine what the old script is from the contacts?

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Do all toric contacts correct both astigmatism and myopia? Some of them say they are for astigmatism and don't mention nearsightedness.

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Could astigmatism increase as fast as myopia?

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