I've been Diagnosed with mild astigmatism since I was little, does anyone else on here have this?

-0.75 diopters in both eyes and also near sighted, not bad but it's mild.

No wonder lights on Christmas trees look like stars to me, thought this was normal before being diagnosed.

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SomeMichGuy · M

It's your nearsightedness which makes the lights big.

Astigmatism makes straight lines curve.

Your basic Rx is for a spherical eye; astigmatism introduces a cylindrical correction to that model at a specific angle & power.