What can I do to stop the progression of Presbyopia (old age eyes)?!
Question: I have been told that there is nothing, and I just have to accept this fact. My eyes get worse every year since my 40s. What about something in my diet or computer use restriction. I do eye exercises but doesn't seem to help.
Answers: I have been told that there is nothing, and I just have to accept this fact. My eyes get worse every year since my 40s. What about something in my diet or computer use restriction. I do eye exercises but doesn't seem to help.
There is really nothing you can do. Your eyes lose focus range as you get older.
You can slow the progression by reading less, using a computer less, and avoiding tiring your eyes, but you can't stop it.
At some point your eyes will stabilize (or at least the eyesight will degrade more slowly).
Annoying, yes, but it wasn't that many centuries ago that most people were dead by age 40 and it didn't matter. We're lucky that we live long enough now to be able to complain about it. :)
The only way to stop the progression of Presbyopia is by finding the fountain of youth and drinking from it. If you find it let me know. I'll be right behind you. I am 50 and have been experiencing the same thing I told my patients they would experience when they turned 40. Well I finally turned 40 myself and found it wasn't nearly as fun to experience as it was to explain. Hope this helped.
you can't the lens is loosing it's ability to accommodate .
you can get refractive surgery to be like -2 in both eyes to see near things clearly but on the expense of the far vision [ but i don't think it's an appealing idea ]
Yeah...and I'll be right behind Yagman at that fountain for a big drink myself. I haven't hit 40 yet (I'm 31) but maybe I could take a few preventative gulps of that fountain to stave off presbyopia.
Sorry. There is NOTHING you can do. It isn't a muscular problem, so eye exercises won't help. There is nothing you can eat, and there is no dietary supplement you can take. All those supplements do anyway is help maintain the overall health of the eye. Carrots and vitamins do NOT improve your vision - AT ALL.
The only thing you CAN do is get some reading glasses or bifocals, either with the line or without, so you can see at all distances.
Sorry.
**EDIT** To the person down below who "doesn't have presbyopia, except for with their contacts on..." That's what presbyopia is. Its crystalline lens' loss of flexability that prevents you from being able to go from seeing far away, to focusing on items that are close up. When you are younger, you were able to see at all distances with your glasses/contacts. You DO suffer from presbyopia ALL the time, but it is worse when you have your contacts in. Any person who can no longer focus far away and up close with their corrective lenses is suffering from some degree of presbyopia. You do not create it simply by putting your glasses or contacts on. Its present all the time and is a problem with the lens in the eye. It is not caused by your contacts or glasses.
Doomed! Doomed, we're all doomed!
(only Brits of a certain age will appreciate that)
As the others have said, so it is.
It's not a middle-age thing. The eye's ability to refocus for different distances is maximal at about the age of 8, and has been dropping gradually and predictably since then. Many optometrists have rules with the near point of clear vision marked.. in years. People who vary much from the NORMAL loss of ability need extra investigation.
This doesn't amount to a practical problem till 45 on average for Europeans, though there is some scatter, and those of African and Asian ethnicity tend to need near assistance somewhat earlier, again on average.
It's a natural process I'm afraid, with the usual variations. I've known plenty of people spend good money on exercise programs that do absolutely nothing. It will settle down eventually though.
The only certain solution is to die right now. Most people do consider glasses to be preferable to death, but you may be an exception.
I'm 48 and I don't have presbyopia except for when I'm wearing contact lenses. Even then, the only time I need reading glasses is when I'm reading tiny print. The reason I haven't really developed this problem is because I'm nearsighted. I still see better close up without glasses or contacts. It is kind of odd to see a middle aged person removing glasses to read something instead of putting them on. I do all my close up work this way. I'm still practically blind when I look at distant objects without my glasses but my close up vision is quite sharp.
Edit: To the optician above, I should have mentioned that I have not been very successful with contact lenses. I really don't see that well with them. I only use them when I don't need to do detailed work. I don't have a problem with presbyopia because I can also see quite well close up with my regular single lens glasses, which I use most of the time anyway. The optometrist I have been using over the last couple of years says this is very characteristic of nearsighted people. They are able to delay developing presbyopia until they are in their seventies or eighties.