I'm very near-sighted and also have astigmatism, which makes it a real pain to get proper vision correction. I want to get some input, so I'll go over my options:
Glasses: My glasses correct my astigmatism pretty well, and give me sharper vision than contacts if I'm looking straight ahead through the lenses. The problem is they're very thick, almost a centimeter on the outer edge, and they're also very curved. This means that anything not exactly in front of the lenses looks warped. For example, if I'm pointing the lenses at these words and then glance to the edge of my monitor, the straight top edge looks convex, almost as if I'm looking at it through a fish-eye lens, and I get double vision since the image coming through my two lenses looks very different going into each eye and I can't focus it into one image. I also get a red and blue outline to everything not directly in front of the lenses, too, and I have no idea why. Everything looks I'm seeing it through a funhouse mirror unless it's directly in front of my face, and I'm not exaggerating. I tend to use glasses for watching TV since my astigmatism makes it hard to make out fine details, but I can't see very well in any other situation. Or at least, my vision is functional, but there's so much distortion that it's painfully obvious that I'm not seeing things as they really look.
Additionally, glasses really make my head and face sore, and the primary reason I got contacts in high school is because after years of wearing glasses, I never got used to them and I wanted to stop constantly having a headache. Also, because the prescription is so strong, you can see around the sides of my head through them, and they make my eyes look a lot smaller. This has me worried that if I wear glasses after transition, it'll make it difficult to make my face look nice and feminine, since they "break" the flow of my face and make my eyes look tiny. I don't really care about the visual appearance of having frames, but I don't like how they distort my face.
Contacts: Contacts give me a wider field of vision, they don't warp straight edges, they don't put a colored outline on everything, they're more visually appealing, and they're much more comfortable than glasses. However, they don't correct my astigmatism very well. This is fine most of the time, but it's gotten hard to watch TV or play video games with them on because any bright, sharp object on a dark background looks like it has a "halo" around it. It's even gotten harder to drive at night with them on, because of the halos around car lights and street lights. This has me worried that I'm going to have to give them up at some point if my vision deteriorates any farther. My prescription for nearsightedness has been stable for years, but I think my astigmatism is getting worse.
Lasik: I've thought about getting Lasik, because it sounds wonderful to have perfect vision all the time without the shortcomings of either glasses or contacts. However, I've read that it doesn't correct astigmatism very well, so I'm not sure it's actually possible to have all my vision problems corrected. I'm also worried about it being botched, I've read that some people get "halos" around lights and can't drive at night, which sounds like what I already have but way worse. I've also read on other threads here that HRT can affect your vision, so I might not be able to get it anyway for a long time after going on HRT.
I'm just getting frustrated, because it seems like my vision is so bad that I have no good options. I wanted to know what other people's experiences are with corrective lenses and lasik, especially if you have very bad vision.
