Dizzy all the time, could I need glasses?!
Question: I have an eye exam scheduled for tomorrow morning, my first since I was a kid and I'm hoping it will help. For the past few months, I've been getting really dizzy at work, and it feels like someone is pushing down on my eyes. It's gotten to the point that I am fighting the urge to get sick I am so dizzy. I work on a computer all day, and even looking at the screen for 20 minutes makes me dizzy. I've also notices my vision getting worse, I'm having trouble reading things far away that would have been easy for me a few years ago. Even the vision test to get my license was hard for me, though I did it. My regular vision seems fine, though, other than that.
I'm actually hoping I need glasses, just so I know what the problem is and can fix this dizzy thing, it's miserable. Does it sound like it is, in fact, my eyes making me so dizzy? I never needed glasses as a kid, I'm 19 now.
If I do need them, what are some good frames for a heart-shaped face? I think that's what mine would be. :)
Answers: I have an eye exam scheduled for tomorrow morning, my first since I was a kid and I'm hoping it will help. For the past few months, I've been getting really dizzy at work, and it feels like someone is pushing down on my eyes. It's gotten to the point that I am fighting the urge to get sick I am so dizzy. I work on a computer all day, and even looking at the screen for 20 minutes makes me dizzy. I've also notices my vision getting worse, I'm having trouble reading things far away that would have been easy for me a few years ago. Even the vision test to get my license was hard for me, though I did it. My regular vision seems fine, though, other than that.
I'm actually hoping I need glasses, just so I know what the problem is and can fix this dizzy thing, it's miserable. Does it sound like it is, in fact, my eyes making me so dizzy? I never needed glasses as a kid, I'm 19 now.
If I do need them, what are some good frames for a heart-shaped face? I think that's what mine would be. :)
It's hard to answer this because you've not included a lot of information.
In people who begin having problems with vision in their late teens, usually it's because they're hyperopic. Not all the time, but a significant part of the time. Hyperopes have basically weak eyes. The refractive parts, the cornea and lens together bend the light, but not as much as they should, so the light's focal point or focal distance is behind the eye. But because we can increase the power of the lens by bending it, which we all do anyway to see up close, hyperopes can see clearly at distance.
But to see clearly up close, they not only have to do the work to see at distance, but have to add more power to focus closer at a near distance such as a computer secreen or book.
All that 'extra' work gets people tired. Mind wanders. Hard to keep concentrating. Get sleepy when reading or studying. In the maind reading room at UC-Berkeley there is always a number of people with their heads down on the desk taking a short nap. Also, other symptoms of this include burning and tearing.
The Rx for this is to get the right Rx for glasses that eliminates the 'weakness' by doing the work 'for' you. Then, on top of that, increase the power so that the focus is closer.
One still gets a bit drowsy when trying to read or computer work, like in college or a job, but it's better than before. There are also ocular muscle pullings that go on when we try to see up close.
When we see up close or look at something up close, three things happen. One, the lens bends. Already talked about that. But also the eyes converge so they look 'crossed', and the third is the pupil gets smaller.
If you have problems with hyperopia or other refractive error and it causes your muscles not to seem to work right when spending a lot of time at the computer or reading, the weaker or overworked accomodative reflex can cause an eye to drift or move away from center. This feels like one is dizzy.
As we don't have any other info other than your age, it's hard to tell. Maybe you could put in your refraction prescription after you get glasses. That'll tell what your refractive 'problem' is and give a better idea whether or not this dizziness is from an ocular problem or as the other answerer indicated, from your middle ears.
You really shoukd get one every year.
As for the dizziness, if it werenlt for you saying you had a feeling like someone "pushing fdown on my eyeballs," I would have said to get your EARS checked since sometimes dizzyness can be caused by a problem in the INNER EAR.
It can be that you need glasses, but it voule be that you have a sinus infection. You should try on frames and just get the ones you like the best.