What is "blur sensitivity" and how is it caused and/or treated?!

What is "blur sensitivity" and how is it caused and/or treated?

I've worn glasses now for 6 months but while my eyes apparently show a normal amount of deterioration for my age (I'm 25) my vision is exceptionally blurred. My eyesight started to blur very suddenly and within a month of me noticing a change, getting glasses became critical because it affected my driving and was preventing me from participating in work meetings etc. My glasses are the weakest prescription possible, and everyone with "normal" vision who has tried them on reckons they can see normally with the glasses on. However they make a big difference to me - without them I cannot read street signs or subtitles on TV. Anything within arms length I can see clearly though. So my optometrist said I was blur sensitive but had no explanation for it! It also seems strange that my eyes got so bad so quickly. I've had my eyes checked amd there's no other abnormalities. I do get sore, dry eyes, and work with computers. Please help! :)

Try this first, since you have had a normal eye exam: Try using artificial tears as often as you need to for your dry eyes. I work with computers 100% for my job...and get dry eyes real bad. We do not blink as much when using the computer, playing video games, watching TV as we do when we are engaged in other activities...making our eyes drier.

I'm not familiar with the term "blur sensitive", but I do work for a group of ophthalmologists that see a lot of dry eye syndromes that first line treatment is artificial tears very liberally. My eyes blur more when they are dry...and after a day of work, I have a soreness like you.

Since you've had the normal eye exam, try the artificial tears for several days...and if you continue to have a problem, call your optometrist and see if they can reassess you to explain more of what "blur sensitivity" means, what is causing it, which part of the eye is the reason for the blurriness, and what they recommend for treatment. If you aren't satisfied with their answer, see if you can be referred to an Ophthalmologist (they work a bit more focused on other parts of the eye) who specializes in that area of the eye that is the most likely problem (my guess is a corneal specialist).

Good luck and I hope you get some answers.