Astigmatism

Axis in Myopia or Hyperopia

I had astigmatism in my left eye along with myopia in the same.

The right eye was just myopic without any axis.

When my myopia went all of a sudden one day, astigmatism in the left eye went along too!

But I had different feelings in the two sides of my body.

My body was stretched, as was my face in both the sides - the left and the right.

But the two stretches were different - not less or more - just different!

I kept trying to sense the two more and more.

Normal Eye

And then I found that my left side - both, of the body and of the face - had an extra distortion in a perpendicularly different plane from that of the right side of my body and my face.

Simply a little of three dimensional geometry!

Like z-axis being perpendicular, both to x-axis as well as to y-axis, in the coordinate geometry - remember your high school math?

Astigmatism

This extra distortion of the body and the face in another axis makes your eyeball distort - whether elongation in case of myopia, or flattening in case of hyperopia and presbyopia - in an unsymmetrical way; and this dissymmetry is what produces astigmatism along with myopia or hyperopia; or even without them, on its own and of its own - of course either of the myopic nature or of the hyperopic one!

That's what makes the vision correction process so subtle!

But howsoever subtle it may be, it still remains instantaneous!

Myopia

What Dr. Bates had to say about astigmatism, perfectly tallies my personal experience of curing my own astigmatism through correcting the extra distortion of the body and the face in another axis different from the main axis in which myopia is produced.

The same is true of astigmatism with hyperopia too!

Hyperopia

In Dr. Bates' words:

'In an eye with previously normal vision a strain to see near objects always results in the temporary production of hyperopia in one or all meridians.'

'That is, the eye either becomes entirely hyperopic, or some form of astigmatism is produced of which hyperopia forms a part. In the hyperopic eye the hyperopia is increased in one or all meridians.'

'When the myopic eye strains to see a near object the myopia is lessened and emmetropia may be produced, the eye being focused for parallel rays while still trying to see at the near-point.'

Normal Eye

'In some cases the emmetropia may even pass over into hyperopia in one or all meridians.'

'All these changes are accompanied by evidences of increasing strain, in the form of eccentric fixation and lowered vision; but, strange to say, pain and fatigue are usually relieved to a marked degree.'

'If, on the contrary, the eye with previously normal vision strains to see at the distance, temporary myopia is always produced in one or all meridians, and if the eye - is already myopic, the myopia is increased.'

'If the hyperopic eye strains to see a distant object, pain and fatigue may be produced or increased; but the hyperopia and the eccentric fixation are lessened and the vision improves.'

Myopia

'This interesting result is the exact contrary of what we get when the myope strains to see at the near-point.'

'In some cases the hyperopia is completely relieved, and emmetropia is produced, with a complete disappearance of all evidences of strain.'

'This condition may then pass over into myopia, with an increase of strain as the myopia increases.'

'In other words the eye which strains to see at the near-point becomes flatter than it was before, in one or all meridians.'

Hyperopia

'If it was elongated to start with, it may pass from this condition through emmetropia, in which it is spherical,, to hyperopia, in which it is flattened; and if these changes take place un-symmetrically, astigmatism will be produced in connection with the other conditions.'

'The eye which strains to see at the distance, on the contrary, becomes longer than it was before in one or all meridians, and may pass from the flattened condition of hyperopia, through emmetropia, to the elongated condition of myopia. If these changes take place un-symmetrically, astigmatism will again be produced in connection with the other conditions.'

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