If you have a bad astigmatism is it an absolute must to gt toric contacts?

or can i wear like acuvue or normal contacts for people with an astigmatism.

Answer especially if ur like an expert or eye doctor or someting.

i have an astigmatism(really bad!) and i can only wear, and have been for 5 years, only been wearing toric lenses. i have asked my doctor if i can buy "normal" types of lenses, and he has said no. it is especially disappointing when companies come out with new types of lenses that i would like to try, but can't because they don't make a toric version. :-(

My daughter has bad astigmmatisms and she was told not to get contacts because they would not lie flat on her eyes, but if she did get contacts she should get the toric contacts. A good eye doctor can advise you.

Usually if your astigmatic correction is less than -o.75, you would most likely be wearing sperical contacts.

I believe if your astigmatic correction is in the -2.00 or worse, you definitely will be wearing toric lenses.

If you do have "bad" atigmatism then a non toric lens would not let you see clearly enough. Astigmatism basically means that your eye has more than just one power. So, the lens just being says -2.00 all the way around would not work. That's why the lens is different, it has different powers in different meridians to compensate for the different powers in your eye (lots of differents, sorry).

i have an astigmatism in my left eye and found that you can wear reg contacts but the vision is blurrier in the astigmatized eye, i wear acuvue for ppl with astigmatism, they really help!