At target they had a small area where eye exams are given. I had a
discussion with the optician about several points. She says I know more
about optometry than she does! I asked if the optometrist can give a
psycoplegic refraction and she said yes. I then mentioned I want a
strong cycoplegia agent, maybe even atropine if the optometrist says
its suitable. She said the cycoplegia lasts about 3 hours and I told
her ah thats a weak one and results in incomplete cycoplegic and that a
decent one will be lasting 8-12 hours. She says I dont really know, ask
the optometrist. I will be calling him soon to discuss this and
resolving my pseudomyopia.

By the way she was wearing glasses which seemed to be near plano so I
asked what pescription and she says "I have astigmastim only, no
myopia" I asked her how well she sees without them and she says crappy,
the letters are disorted and smeared.(hey a bad lasik outcome could
give an effect like this to varying degrees)I asked her how well she
sees with glasses and she says 20/40 but my eyes have gotten a bit
worse, I am gonna try new glases and hopefully achieve a little better.
(20/30?)

I got to try her glasses and they are progressives too, when I look
towards the bottom things appear more blurry but magnified. I am
getting -2.75 induced astigmastim but while things appeared smeared and
disorted(squared became mild verticle rectangles!) things overall were
a bit less blurry. I told her im getting the spherical equivalent with
myopia corrected on one axix. This makes me -4.5 and +2.75 which can
also be written as -1.75 and -2.75
which would blur as much as -3.13(round to -3.25) so I definately
notice less blur but the quality of vision sucks! Id rather be a -4.5
with no astigmastim instead! At least things will appear normal and not
smeared or disorted, just blurry due to defocus. Things from near would
be clear reciprocal to my myopia so -4.5 is clear from 1/4.5 meters. -3
would be clear from 1/3 meter. Now I understand why people with
(equal)more than -1 to 1.5 diopters of astigmastim wear glasses full
time! Even though this is only equal to -.5 to -.75 spherical
equivalent myopic blur for 20/25 to 20/30 instead of 20/20, the vision
quality just sucks! The trouble isnt really so much as seeing letters
and objects, its the smeared, disorted way they see letters and
everything. Frankly even though a -1.5 myope may see 20/60, hes more
functional without correction than a -1.5 astigmatic seeing 20/30!

Reguarding lasik, now I am getting the idea why some people complain of
blur even though they end up with vision as good as 20/20. They got
induced(or incomplete removal)of astigmastim, sometimes of the
irregular kind which is a bad thing since its much harder to properly
correct. Get enough induced irregular astigmastim and youll lose lines
of vision and also have poor quality of vision! All lasik induces high
order aberrations which disort things in strange ways, probably more
similar to astigmastim than simple defocus.