A 37-year-old member asked:
I was told by my eye specialist that i have a cylindrical power, which is talking about what?
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Dr. Michael Hamanswered
Ophthalmology 29 years experience
Astigmatism.: Your specialist was referring to astigmatism which is a situation where your eye is not perfectly round like a basketball, but it is slightly ob-longed in one direction as in comparison to a football. This is very normal and almost every one has some amount of astigmatism, depending on how precisely you measure the difference in two different axis's.
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