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I am here today to clear up this long word called astigmatism which most people don't
know what it is they just know that it sounds bad but the a action is without and stigma
means point so when light is going through a person's eye who has a stigmatism there
is not one single focus point in fact there are two and that happens because either the
cornea is off round like a spoon in one particular direction, either it is horizontal or it is
vertical, most commonly and then you have two focus points instead of one or maybe for
one third of the cases maybe the lens themselves that is behind the iris which is the other
optical element that focuses light will be tilted in a certain direction and that can
also cause astigmatism. So that is how we get it, there is only two ways we can get
it and that is from the cornea or the natural lens behind our iris. Astigmatism is really
something that a person is born with. If it is something that is a moderate amount that
means that it is something that is caught usually in school age years. Astigmatism will
cause blurriness and loss of performance. It is true that when a person gets older usually
page the age of 50 when the lids are not as tight against the eye that that can cause
the cornea to change shape and that can cause the astigmatism to go in a certain direction
where actually the cornea is steeper in this direction and flatter in this direction because
the lid dynamics are not as tight against the cornea itself.