Is it common for a 26 year old girl to be farsighted?!
Question: i have +1 in one eye and +.75 in another. does it mean my eyes got old very fast? am i going to go blind when i'm old?
Answers: i have +1 in one eye and +.75 in another. does it mean my eyes got old very fast? am i going to go blind when i'm old?
There are basically three types of -opias.
Emmetropia, Myopa, Hyperopia.
When light from far away is bent by the cornea and lens system, it focuses on the back of the eye. If it focuses exactly on the back of the eye, that's normal, or emmertropia.
But if the eye is weak, meaning that the cornea/lens system of that eye doesn't bend the light enough so that the light rays focus behind the eye instead of ON the retina, that person will have blurry vision. This is hyperopia or farsightedness. For these people to see, all they have to do is bend their lens with the muscles that do this, and the lens system becomes a little stronger and the light rays bend a little more and the are focused on the retina. But this takes 'work'. When these people get to a point in their lives where their ability to bend the lens is fairly close to the amount of weakness, they note symptoms. Usually in the later teens or early twenties when people begin to read more, or study more or go to college, they are trying to read and focus near all the time. They get tired. Normally they may have to put in enough power to see at distance. Then on top of that, add more power to see up close. They get tired. They want to sleep when reading. Or get drowsy, or mind wanders, or eye aches, or headaches or...
If you go to a college library in the big sudy or reading area, you will ALWAYS find a few students with their heads down on the desk, asleep. Might actually be tired from regular life stuff, but a lot are hyperopic.
Myopic people have eyes that have lens systems that are too 'strong'. They are already focused up close. The power of their eyes is measured in diopters according to the formula P=1/d where d is in meters.
So if they are already focused at a meter in front of the eye, everything further out will be blurry. They are +1.00 TOO powerful, so a -1.00 lens would move that focal point out to 'infinity'.
If they are focused at a half meter, +2.00 too powerful, need a -2.00 lens.
third of a meter, need a -3.00 lens.
quarter of a meter, -4.00 lens, etc.
For hyperopes, a +1.00 Rx means the lens system is -1.00 weak. They have to use +1.00 bending power to see 'normally'. Same goes for the +3.00 to see normally.
To read on top of that, the +3.00 guys will need another +2 to +3 diopters to see up close, which is a lot of work...get tired faster, get sleepy, mind wanders.....
When you are about 40, you won't be able to bend the lens enough to read up close. So you'll get 'readers'.
This NEVER leads to blindness. If you buy +1.00 spheres or reading Rx, you'll see distances just find. If you buy the +2.75 readers, that would give you the +1.00 for the distance and add another 1.75d which would be comfortable for reading or even a computer.
You might be blind when you get old, but it won't be from this.
And the stuff about glasses making your eyes worse, a conspiracy of eye doctors, is BS. Eye doctors don't 'wan't myopic people to be more myopic. They want to help them 'see'.
hun no.. i have worse eyes and im younger than 26
Anyone can be farsighted, no matter what the age. Talk to your eye doctor about it.
im 13 and i have incredibly bad vsion... my optometrist says ill probably have to get laser eye surgery when im old enough... +5.50 power contacts in both eyes
no nothing is wrong.... its natural... allot of thing can cause eyesight problems such as being pregnant, having diabetes, hormonal changes, there is nothing to be freaking-out about...
This doesn't mean you'll be blind, so don't worry. I was diagnosed with farsightedness when I was 5, so it's completely normal. Talk to your eye doctor and he'll probably make you get some glasses if you don't already have them. Don't worry!
You're fine. I've seen kids as young as 12 with reading glasses.
It probably is... people can be a little farsighted and not know it. They may find out at a younger age if they have a proper eye exam, or complain of eyestrain, but otherwise they may be fine without glasses until they are in their 40's.
hello there..
i don't think that's uncommon to find out you're farsighted at 26.
i thought i had my eyes in a good shape until i was 27 - when i had a more complete eye exam and found out i am both far- and nearsighted. One eye is farsighted (+3.75) - one is nearsighted (-0.5).
at least you're lucky to have them both farsighted. they wouldn't give me the corresponding diopters for the spectacles - as they say my brain wouldn't match the images from both eyes correctly. my glasses have +1.5 for the farsighted eye - zero for the other. i think it will be increased soon at my next eye doctor visit... ( i don't see well with any of my eyes because i don't have the right diopters in my glasses).
anyway - the bottom line here - don't be too alarmed about this. hyperopia can appear also at younger ages.