Can't blame you.

I'm not a doc.  I didn't even stay in a Holiday Inn Express last
night.

That said ...

http://www.emedicine.com/oph/topic656.htm

http://www.stlukeseye.com/professionals/lri_nomogram.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1
0504084&dopt=Abstract

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9
584246&dopt=Abstract

Cost?  Dunno.

Good luck!

Neil

Dear Jack,

I have heard claims that Lasik can
remove that amount of astigmatism.

Cost for Lasik -- about $4,000

Or just wear glasses "cut" for
astigmatism for about $300.

Good luck,

Otis

glasses and contact lenses are the cheapest and most obvious answer.

LASIK is certainly possible (the cost would be about $1500-2000 per
eye).

Limbal-relaxing incisions could possibly relieve some of the
astigmatism.  It is much simpler and less invasive than LASIK but is
harder to control the outcome accurately.

I wish I had a good answer for that myself.  As I have reported,
perhaps ad nauseum, to this group, due a misplaced LRI during cataract
surgery/IOL implant, MY OD is now +0.75/-3.00/099.
I have seen 4 different surgeons re: this issue, including a corneal
specialist plus an independent consulting OD
I have found that much of the "best way" is determined by the "if my
only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" approach.
Hence, every specialist would use his specialty as "best way"
So, based on all the research I have done, and my gut feelings about
what I want or don't want done to my eye, I have pretty much ruled out
lasik no matter how it's guided and what trade name you apply to it.
I currently suffer from dry eye (existed before the surgery) and gray
gauzie floaters which appeared after I had to have a YAG lazer
capsulotomy in the right eye due an almost immediate emergent
"secondary cataract" after the initial surgery.  I would like that not
to get worse. and it is getting slowly better
I am looking at some form of PRK.  Dr #2, 3 and the OD tend to favor
this.  (Of interesty, the OD said that if he had to have Lasik, he
would go to Dr #1 [the culprit], but that he felt it was not the
answer) I wound up with Dr #4 about whom I have previously posted, and
a no-flap sort of PRK-like surface ablation proceedure he calls
Supralase:(  www.firstcolonialeyecenter.com/content.htm ) scroll down
below the picture.  He says he is going to go after the astigmatism
only, and not try and give me an eye requiring no correction, since I
have worn glasses all my adult life and I don't mind continuing, with
my current trifocals.  Cost:  $1800
Now, I will say that the OD, who worked with me over two days,
including  a walk around the shopping center with him while wearing a
pair of trial frames with his prescription, has generated me a pair of
excellent glasses.  The best yet and far better than those from the
Refraction Factory run by Dr #1.  Yet, the ground is still not quite
flat and the reference circle still a bit oval.  I can't give you the
cost as I had Dr #1 pay for making the ODs glasses.  And,  I am
extremely sensitive to the quality of my vision, apart from whether it
is 20/20 (which it is).  It is my hope that by getting the astigmatism
into a more manageable range, that I can get a prescription that will
both permit me to rejoin the flat earth society and to see circles
where there are circles.
YMMV - In fact, so, probably will mine.
Please email me if you think I can help further.
And, for the guys/gals in the group. last chance for comments/opinions
on what I propose for me.  I relish every one.
Roy
 Living proof that statistics are for populations, not for
individuals

Glasses, about US$200.

Contacts, US$80 for a sixpack.

Surgery, I don't know the cost.

I have IOLs in both eyes, but astigmatism of 1.75D in the right eye.  I
have other issues, so I just don't correct it.