Is it true that your eyes will start to depend on glasses?!


Question: yes or no?


Answers: yes or no?

It depends.

It depends on what you want to do to see. As we age, our lens inside our eyes grows. It grows like an onion, layer after layer. By the time we are about 40, the lens has grown so much that the little ropes or strings that hold it in place become sort of loose.

In order to see up close, we increase the power of the muscles that are used to bend the lens (ciliary muscles). Usually this bends the lens a little and we can see up close. But as those strings get loser, it takes more energy to tighten the strings before they start to pull on the lens itself. By the time we are 40ish, we don't have enough 'power' to bend the lens for any length of time and get tired sooner. So we get 'readers'. This does some of the work for us and we can see up close just fine after that.

As we age further, we get slightly stronger lenses till about +3.00 or so, which corresponds to 1/3 of a meter. The +2.00 bends light to 1/2 of a meter. +1.00, one meter or 1/1 meters.

You don't NEED to see close. Just makes it easier. And eyes don't get worse as we age. As long as the cornea, the lens, the gel, the retina, the macula, the nerve, the brain are all working well, eyes see the 'same'.

Normal is NOT to get worse as we age. At 80 we should still see 20/20 unless there's a problem with one of those organs or tissues.

It's not your eyes that depend on glasses. It's YOU. If you WANT to see well, you've got to focus the camera. Doesn't mean it's a bad camera because you don't 'want' to focus the thing.

With all the refractive surgeries going on, you'd think that we'd not need glasses. But everyone of those people who is having that surgery will need readers when they reach about 40 or so. The only way I know of not to would be to have the lens inside the eye removed and replaced with a plastic one that is already focused at a close distance. This would be a 'near' eye. Then for the other eye, have that lens replaced with one for distance. Then NO glasses would be 'needed'.

And people do this all the time. It's a common surgery. And it won't need to be 'fixed' later as the eye ages like with the people who have the LASEK or LASIK or RK or PRK or ?

yes. they will get progressively worse.

Yes, they will get worse if you continuously wear them day and night during everything. Take them off when you don't use them! Like on Saturdays, you won't be needing them, so just bring them along with you! Your eyes might start to sag if you wear them long enough. The sagging problem can be helped with contacts.

my eyes improved most of my life and I have been in glasses starting at six months but I am not getting better vision any more, I am 30 and guess they will start getting worse now. there are cases of people using glasses that didn't need them, and they're eyes got bad from using them, a good example is Elton john, he had no vision problems but like to use them at a prop, and then latter needed glasses, but most people loose vision over time anyway

No, it isn't true.

If you see better with your glasses, then your brain will adapt to that and prefer that you wear them instead of struggling to make your eyes focus as much as they can without the help of the glasses.

All the glasses do is focus light in a way that is needed to give you a better image.

Glasses can't make your eye any longer or shorter, or change the curvatures of your cornea....

Those are the things that cause your visual defect in most cases, aside from disease.

Yes, just like everything. If you rely on something your body becomes used to it and won't work well without it





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