badninja | (no subject)

All year, my vision has been hanging with a question over it. "Will I need surgery?" I had my first eye surgery in 1993. My second was last year.

I have double vision and that's what the surgeries correct. When I got my glasses a few weeks ago, it causes double vision on trying to look at anything two feet or less in front of me. I was supposed to see the doctors in a few weeks but they moved my appointment up until today because of that. It's a pretty big deal when they do that because appointment schedule out six or more months in advance.

My double vision is not any worse than my last appointment but it's not better, either. And I'm still at a point where they don't have prisms strong enough to correct it, which concerns me. I have none without my glasses, for the most part, at least outside of eye tests (which are basically a two hour game of 'let's try to make your vision double', anyway).

My left lens has a temporary prism on it now. This s a sticker they put on your glasses that looks like a bunch of lines down your lens. It's not standoutish and it got called venetian blind effect by my sister. XD I thought it would be crazy looking but it's not.

The doctor told me that there is three choices at this point:

1) They do nothing and leave my vision as it is
2) Put a temporary prism on with the intent of it being there on a permanent basis.
3) Put a temporary prism on with the intent of using this as a guide for the surgery.

I have a month to decide. #2 seems like it would be the most obvious choice but it has drawbacks. For one, vision will always be blurry. But I've noticed a vast improvement except that books have a weird drop shadow on the text now. But if it's anything like today, I will not like option 2. Because I will have a migraine all the time of the level where I have to give myself my shots.

No.

I'm hesitant about option #3 but #1 causes migraines too but not as much. Honestly at this point it's a matter of which hurts my head the least but I have a month to decide. Last year it was easy. This time, I'm not that lucky.