After reading through lots and lots of vision info on this forum, I find that I am still a bit apprehensive about my eyes. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Here goes...
I was recently fitted by my civilian eye doc with my first pair of contact lenses (soft Biofinity Toric from CooperVision). After several check-ups, it seems that all is well and the fit is good. The problem is that my left eye (the worse of the two) is still a little blurry when trying to read the 20/20 line for both near and distant vision, even with the lenses on. My doc says that this is the best I will get with contact lenses. My prescription reads as follows:
SPH CYL AXIS
O.D. pl -1.00 092
O.S. +.25 -1.50 086
I don't really know what any of that means, except that almost all of my problem is astigmatism, and that (I think) I am right on the borderline of -1.50.
I have read through all the waiverable limits, etc. I read on one of these posts that the visual acuity (i.e. 20/xx) is rarely a show-stopper, and that ultimately they are looking at the refractive error (i.e. -1.50 astigmatism). Is that accurate? Today at the eye doc I missed 1 letter in the 20/20 line with my lenses on. Would that DQ me at Wright-Pat? Also, regarding the previous post, I know my uncorrected near vision is worse than 20/20, and I would be lucky if it is 20/30. I think it is closer to 20/40. Is this going to DQ me? I am 28 and have never worn glasses/contacts before now. To me there is a neglible difference in my day-to-day life with/without the lenses. I got picked up in April to fly C-130's, and am awaiting my FC1 date. If I run into a vision waiver, I will then most likely also run into an age waiver, which would be a severe pain in the arse. Any thoughts, insights? Thanks in adavnce...