My vision is 20 in one eye and 160 in the other. Is that a big difference?!
Question: My vision is 20 in one eye and 160 in the other. Is that a big difference?
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Vision is not measured in those kinds of numbers. Where did you get the numbers?
I suspect that you have copied the axis of your astigmatism. Axis specifies an orientation of power along a lens and the concept of "difference" with regard to it is meaningless.
[Judy B]....
I think our questioner is talking about 20/20 and the other is 20/160... It's the american system of Visual Acuity.
Anyhow.. for the answer...
That is a HUGE differnce... the eye that is 160 is one line away from 'legally-blind' in some places (uncorrected).
Do you wear glasses/contacts? and if/when you do, are you vision 20/20 in each of your eyes?.. I hope so..
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With this difference, you should be wearing your spectacles/contact lenses almost all the time so as to get good 'binocular' vision
Otherwise, if this vision is the BEST your eyes can possibly be, then you've got a LAZY eye or AMBLYOPIA in that (160) eye. Sorry to say but there's not much that can be done for amblyopia.