Small problem and a question

[dragonimp]

I have a small stye or zit or something at the corner of my eye that's causing some irritation, so I'm giving it the warm washcloth treatment - though not right at the moment, because this keyboard requires two hands - and since it's my left eye, this really limits what I can do. No reading, or anything else that requires me to see details. I suppose I could watch something, if I didn't care too much about tracking the screen. I might have to stick to podcasts.

Which brings me to my question, for those who wear glasses or other corrective lenses.

TV usually depicts poor sight by unfocusing the camera, but I've never thought that looked right. For me, it's more like ... closest analogy I can come up with is trying to look through static. The details are there, I can tell they're there, but unless I stare right at them they tend to be intermittently obscured. And small things like letters don't stay put. So my question is: how is uncorrected vision for anyone else? Is the "blurry camera" depiction accurate, close, way off? Are my eyes (eye) just weird?

Sub-question: do your glasses actually give you clear vision? (Mine never have.)

Comments

[fullmetalrose.livejournal.com]

Hmmm interesting question. I cannot wear contacts, I used to but my astigmatism made it feel like a large plastic disc in my eyes all the time. However when I wore contacts I always had blurr problems, glasses not so much.

I have a really bad habit when I go home I take them off and watch TV, granted across the room in the den, not so much in my bedroom and I see fine UNLESS I have to read something on the TV which can be a challenge I am really nearsighted. I do however keep my old pair by my recliner in the den if I need them.

Overall the only time I get blurred vision in my glasses is when my blood sugar is out of whack and I see stars and blurred vision with and without the glasses which is annoying as hell.

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

That's interesting; I've heard of diabetes causing retinopathy, but it always implied it was a permanent thing, not something that fluctuates with blood sugar levels.

[fullmetalrose.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, now I don't have retinopathy but if my sugar is really high, like when your blood pressure rises, I see blurry and stars, seriously. Today I go to my MD to see if he's gonna change my meds again.