6mo ago

A cool guide on What different eye conditions look like

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What is the difference between cataract and myopia? Is it only me not seeing difference?
- Cataract appears to have a colour tone change and is uniformly blurry. Myopia is not focused on things in the foreground and there's no red tinting.
  Is it possible you have a slight colour vision deficiency? There's quite a high percentage of the population that do.
  
  Hopefully not but yes scheduling an eye exam.
- It looks like with a cataract, the entire image is significantly blurred, whereas with myopia, the blur gets worse the farther away the element of the image is from you.
  Which would make sense, given that the derived definition of myopic is basically being focused on or concerned with only things that directly affect you and not the more grand scheme of things.
  
  Thanks, Maybe I see football and blue/white shirt bit more in focus (only because you mentioned it, I stared long enough lol)
  
  Im on mobile and i had to zoom the image in a bit to look at it.
  Its not so obvious at a casual glance.
  alternatively:
  Maybe you should get your eyes checked =P
  
  Yup on mobile as well and yup saw those differences after zooming in / staring. Always a good idea to be on top of medical checkup though, I'll get eye exam just in case.
  
  Hah, I mean, I meant that last part as a joke, but if you've not had an eye exam ever, or in 5 or 10 years, I guess its not a bad idea.
  
  Had it year and half back, they advised us every 2 years
- The cataract also seems to change the colours rather than just blur it out. It has more of a red'ish hue?
  Edit: well not really red. A bit darker?
  
  When it comes to colors I should remember to crank up brightness and turn off night mode (blue filter). Thanks for pointing color difference.
  
  To me it seems brownish, like a mild sepia tone effect.

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