Is this psuedo myopia or worse?!


Question: Whenever I wear my glasses on the computer for a long time, things in the distance get really out of focus. After resting them it gets better. However, When I wear my glasses frequently I notice something blurrier soon after. Then the blurriness doesn't go away. This keeps on happening while if I barely wear my glasses I don't see new blur very often. It seems like the theory of psuedomyopia becoming myopia is fitting this phenominon better than what most doctors will tell me. How would you explain what is happening? By the way this happens especially quickly when I get new glasses (where my vision gets worse within a week or two). This has happened over and over again through the years. Why is this happening? It makes me feel like glasses are bad for my eyes!


Answers: Whenever I wear my glasses on the computer for a long time, things in the distance get really out of focus. After resting them it gets better. However, When I wear my glasses frequently I notice something blurrier soon after. Then the blurriness doesn't go away. This keeps on happening while if I barely wear my glasses I don't see new blur very often. It seems like the theory of psuedomyopia becoming myopia is fitting this phenominon better than what most doctors will tell me. How would you explain what is happening? By the way this happens especially quickly when I get new glasses (where my vision gets worse within a week or two). This has happened over and over again through the years. Why is this happening? It makes me feel like glasses are bad for my eyes!

Hard to know how to answer your question as you've not included some factors that may affect the answer. Your age? Your prescription? Myope? Hyperope?

No matter which -ope you are, it is somewhat apparent that you are doing some sort of ocular work when you are on the computer. The muscles in your ciliary body are being trained to have a certain amount of tone. When you get up from the computer or book or ?, it takes you awhile to relax your ciliary muscle back to 'normal'. If you are a hyperope, you'll still need to have some energy to focus at distance. So it may be that your ciliary muscle needs to relax, but not 'that' much.

You you are a myope, then after putting on your glasses and then doing work, you are using energy to focus close up. This accomodative work, is increased when you put on your glasses which move your normal near focal point out to infinity, then you work to move the focal point back to computer distance.

If you get progressive types of lenses, then your distance Rx will be out 'there', and as you move your eyes down the glasses towards the reading part, those intermediate parts will give you intermediate distances. This should eliminate the work you are having to do at the computer, and should relieve the symptoms you're describing.

You are still imagining things.





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