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My prescription hasn't changed in 30 years.
do glasses make your eyesight worse ?
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I am not sure that wearing glasses will make your eyes lazy and your eyesight worse.
But there is current thinking that lack of exposure to daylight as a child can..
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sc...side-to-save-their-vision-say-scientists.html
But there is current thinking that lack of exposure to daylight as a child can..
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sc...side-to-save-their-vision-say-scientists.html
Man of Honour
I doubt it - I have been wearing glasses since I was 11, and my prescription has barely changed since I was about 16/17 which is 24 years with almost no change.
Additionally, for some people the shape of the eyeball changes over time.....we sometimes refer to "footballs and rugby balls" for eyeball shape, and you can start off with one shape and gradually change to the other as you get older (unilaterally or bilaterally). This has the effect of altering the focal distance between the lens and the retina, and thus requiring a change in prescription.
Soldato
Surely not. Surely laser eye surgery is meant to improve your eyesight. Surely glasses are meant to counter a weakness your eye has.
I'm inclined to say glasses do make eyesight worse, at least in my experience with myopia.
I finally had to get glasses with a -2.25 prescription. One year later, I needed a -3.75 prescription - a phenomenal deterioration. I immediately switched to contact lenses, and since then (about 15 years+), my eyesight has only declined by a further -0.50 and seems to now be holding steady.
I finally had to get glasses with a -2.25 prescription. One year later, I needed a -3.75 prescription - a phenomenal deterioration. I immediately switched to contact lenses, and since then (about 15 years+), my eyesight has only declined by a further -0.50 and seems to now be holding steady.
Supposedly they make the muscle lazy. Eyes are controlled by muscles like the rest of the body. If you don't exercise them, they become weaker. More people have bad eyesight now because they are staring at monitors from 2ft away and not having to change focus.
I "needed" glasses when I was a kid, hardly ever used them and as an adult I have near perfect vision. So my eyesight actually improved as I got older.
I "needed" glasses when I was a kid, hardly ever used them and as an adult I have near perfect vision. So my eyesight actually improved as I got older.
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One diopter over 12 years? Thats not much really.
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What are you talking about? OP obviously knows that glasses correct poor vision. He is asking if wearing them will make your prescription worse.
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Been wearing them since I was about 7 so nearly 50 years. Needed new prescription every year until I was in late teens then it stopped until I got to middle age when I started needing varifocals for close up. Shape of the eyes apparently (elongated i.e. myopia) nothing to do with eye muscles.
One things for sure I can't see a damn thing without them lol.
One things for sure I can't see a damn thing without them lol.
Soldato
That is not how myopia works. There is no conclusive evidence behind a cause for myopia beyond genetic + lack of sun exposure as a child.
Wearing the wrong glasses can NOT permanently damage your eyes. Ever. There is far too much misinformation in this thread. The rise of digital screens and the like is correlated with the rise in myopia due to children not getting proper sunlight exposure for healthy eye development, but it in of itself is not a direct cause.
Soldato
This seems like an appropriate thread to ask this question.
Sometimes when I am reading a book, I need to close my right eye to be able to read correctly. Should I go to opticians? To me, it feels like my eyesight is perfect but not sure why I have to squint.
Yes. Squinting means you are taking advantage of the pinhole effect (look it up) to increase your ability to see. It means that eye needs correction.
Myopia progression usually stops entirely in your early to mid-20s. It is very uncommon for myopia to progress past that age unless it is quite severe.
I get that, directly or indirectly you can damage your eyes.
Soldato
Yet you claim you screwed up your eyes by spending too much time in front of the screen, which in itself is incorrect. If it was because you avoided going outside when growing up then yes, but when you reached adulthood you no longer were doing anything additional. Saying 'the screen did it' as most people do just causes needless alarm in adults. It's the children who need to be kicked outdoors.
It is very difficult to permanently damage your eyes short of the above or staring into the sun/a laser. There is also really nothing you can 'do' to prevent the effects of ageing, short of wearing sunglasses whenever outdoors to avoid UV exposure that leads to cataract formation.
It is very difficult to permanently damage your eyes short of the above or staring into the sun/a laser. There is also really nothing you can 'do' to prevent the effects of ageing, short of wearing sunglasses whenever outdoors to avoid UV exposure that leads to cataract formation.
I see what you are saying, lack of sunlight is a big factor, also the eyes just not used to focusing on longer distances.
Started wearing glasses 9 years ago even though I’ve needed them since I was a kid. The 1st year I started wearing them my eyesight got nearly twice as bad, they put this down to my eye muscles relaxing as they didn’t have work as hard as they had been due to me not wearing glasses. Since then they have not changed.
Caporegime
My perscription hasn't changed since my mid-twenties, and I wear glasses 99.9% of the time.