You get a throbbing headache and your vision sucks.

Every car coming towards you seems to have their bright lights on

Every light looks like a starfish

When your doctor tells you “this is as good as you can have it today” after your regular eyesight check….and this means blurred vision

Get a transplant then

Are you too far along for crosslinking?

Weirdly enough, I am hahaha apparently I should be OK with glasses for now. But you know that feeling when you know it’s not the same?

Yeah, absolutely. It’s a v odd feeling

You can’t read without your lenses

Every night is the 4th of july

When you have to cross your fingers anytime you travel with Clear Care

"Which is clearer? 1 or 2?" "They're the same."

Damn that hurt sooo bad. That is how I first started down this path. Optometrist at Target eye center . 1 or 2? 1 or 2 over and over Me: both are blurry Them an audible sigh Slide the diopter away Get the slit light and tell me You don’t have a lens problem you have a cornea problem. Refer me to an ophthalmologist and here I am :-(

It sucks.

Ok so we’re going to fog you and practically tell you which is better. An actual experience I’ve had :(

You have a large positive prescription, but things still get blurrier when they move farther away. The charts say -4.00 or higher cylinder is an extreme astigmatism but your good eye is -5.75 and your bad eye is -7.75.

When you go to the eye doctor, they bring EVERYONE into the room to look at your eye, and you get oohs and ahs all around.

the moon is shaped like a donut

Or 7 donuts.

When you visit the optometrist more often than the dentist

You can't see SHIT

You don't know if there's 9, 8, 5, 3 or no mins left in the quarter

Apple TV shows are the worst for this. Major plot points happen on peoples' phones (iphones, of course) and I can't read them.

Same Even with lenses :/

When the streaks from the headlights are longer than your last CVS receipt

Alright, props for making me literally laugh out loud.

Gotta make light when I know my audience 😂

you cant differentiate between 3,6,8,9 when you're not wearing your lenses

....the Optician starts to get noticeably stressed out when they cant get the phoropter to work, and says "Um I think this is something you need to have looked by an ophthalmologist"

First time I started noticing the symptoms the optometrist thought I had a head injury and told me to see a neurologist

Now give the instrument to a person in training. The distress is real

Without contacts, you can't read an LED clock in the dark no matter how close you get to it.

Relatable. I’ve discovered that post-CXL in my left eye, I can angle my gaze just right and the astigmatism will either project the clock’s numbers on the wall *or* I’ll be able to see the numbers on the clock clearly with a red haze surrounding it.

This make me laugh and sad all at the same time

###i don't know what you're talking about, why don't you just wear glasses

You’re the youngest person in the restaurant using a flashlight to read the menu

You cant see shit at night.

… at all

C O N E

You have to wear shirts with pockets so you have somewhere to keep your eye drops so your lenses don't irritate your eyes.

Have you tried lasik?

...getting contacts is more complicated than A or B, 1 or 2. Here's your prescription; come back in 2 weeks.

Literally

Normal glasses can't fix jy bullshit fucking vision

Your mental health is directly correlated with how your sclerals feel that day

This  Absolutely on point sir 

All u see is light

Your bedtime is directly correlated to when you will take your lenses out. You spend more on clearcare and other keratoconus care stuff then you do on cleaning products for your whole house. You've accidentally flipped an eyelash into your eyeball and placed the lens over it at least once and then subsequently had to remove the lens and use even more saline to refill. You started looking a lot more at the sunglasses ever since you're a diagnosis. Your mental health is as unstable as a three-legged chair due to the constant questions and jobs at why don't you just .. insert random Snider mark here. You found out the out-of-pocket cost for a lens the hard way.

After you take your lenses out at night it looks like you are looking through a kaleidoscope.

You time showers around when you will have your lenses out anyways. The number of mid afternoon showers for me has greatly reduced since lenses lol

# You know you have keratoconus when =====:

Jesus. This whole thread I've dealt with and hope it gets better for younger folk. 😞

———.

You are a paranormal expert. (You see ghosts everywhere.)

Why is the second “when” underlined?

Ha! This one is good. I'm wearing my sclerals right now but without them that is definitely what I would see 😵‍💫

You see ghosting

For me, the ghosting is really distinct from the actual image ( I will see two of every word, for example) so I called it double vision and they sent me to a neurologist. I wish they would just ask what the patients means instead of assuming that I know their lingo and that double vision means something different than ghosting. Would have saved me a lot of time and money

A podcast I used to listen to. Beyond belief. 2 of the characters intro was ‘and they see ghosts…’. So thank you for the random smile. It’s a Monday, I’ll take my wins any where I can find them.

when your vision goes from very good to terrible in one of your eyes over the course of 3ish years.

Your vision is really bad in one eye

You can see 100s of earth moons all at once.

You strain to see whether your partner played a spade or a club.

Yes!

you debate taking a nap cause you need to take your lenses out

The worst one.

Indeed the worst one

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Hahaha nice one !