Can near-sightedness get better? I feel I can't stand my glasses, as if the!
Question: Can near-sightedness get better? I feel I can't stand my glasses, as if they've become too "heavy" for me(?)?
I'm 19, I've been using glasse since I was in the 5th grade at about 11 years old if I'm not mistaken. I dislike wearing glasses but I became very used to them so I have depended on them otherwise I'll be seeing everything very blurry. I am near-sighted, but I have about a month I believe that I feel my glasses feel "heavy", I take them off and i also feel a notable difference, I can see things better, I can read the time on the clock without squinting so hard like before, I can distinguish things better. I thought I was wrong because I don't know if near-sightedness could "get better" or "lessen" but I am really starting to believe I need a lower prescription.
It's weird because I got these glasses about a year ago, I don't know if it's possible for vision to improve, but is it? Today I went outside, I walked without my glasses on and I can distinguish things better, I can see people much more clearly, no I cannot fully recognize someone from really far away but I can do so from a distance I couldn't have done so before. As I'm using the computer I feel my eyes very bothered with my glasses, It is not that I need to squint or get closer to see well, on the contrary they bother because I feel like they're too heavy now.
But I'm not sure about this, I haven't had time to go get my eyes checked specially since I have been used to going in for a new prescription every 2 years.
Could it be that my eyes/vision got "better"?
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It's possible, though not typical. Sounds like time for your annual exam.
Believe it or not, it _is_ possible, but extremely rare for myopia to lessen. Another possibility, too, is that you have been over-corrected by your optometrist, which apparently happens every once in a while (it has happened to me before). You hurt your eye-flexing muscles for focus either way (over or under) which causes undue strain and can be a bad long term thing.
My former doctor (not a change from her by choice, lol; I had to move), gave me a really good explanation about it, but unfortunately, I don't remember the details.
One thing fascinating, though, when she lowered my correction was that I would probably not be able to understand some things while reading; not because of eye focus, but the fact that the mind is so closely connected to eyesight that it would take the brain some getting used to things like reading comprehension and forming concepts from sight. I didn't buy it, but it turns out she was totally right.
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Myopia (near/short-sightedness) is caused by either:
the eyeball growing too long
the 'resting' focsing power of the eye (cornea and lens) is too high, or...
a combination of both of these.
Now, if you truly believe that your glasses power have reduced... then there are 2 possible explanations.
1. Previously when you got your eyes tested, your focusing mechanisms(lens) were under tone focus (without you knowing) and it gave a slightly stronger reading than your resting focusing power. This is common as young people's lenses/muscles are very flexible and can subconciously focus to give higher Rx. Now as you get older, your lens doesn't want to maintain this 'tone' focus anymore, and so your glasses feels 'heavy' or too strong... and so you feel that your Rx has reduced.
2. If your Rx was perfect before, and now it has dropped... meaning that either the power components of your eyes (curvature of your cornea or density of your lens) has reduced. ie... the curvature of your cornea has flattened out (the treating mechanism behind orthoK RGP lenses) - which is very very rare... or your lens has lost some of its refractive power. Refractive power loss in your lens, if a lot can mean Diabetes... or vast changes is hormones - especially pregnancy hormones...
3. The only other way for your Rx to reduce is if for some miraculous reason, the size of your eyeball shrunk!!!.... or rather, something has pushed your retina forward... which is more of a possibility.. but you don't want to know about these, coz it means Macula Odema, Central Cerous Retinopathy, or a myriad of other sight threatening diseases (which are quite rare at your age)..
In the end, it's best to visit your eye care professional, have them check the Optics of your eyes first, and if things are 'normal' they can procede to check the 'health' of your eyes to makesure there's no danger.
It is entirely possible for your myopia to decrease. At your age, changes are still happening, and sometimes by pure luck , your eyes change for the better instead of worse.
I had a young lady of 22 today who has dropped to - 4.00 from - 5.50 in one year. She had been having more and more problems over the last few months , and now we know why.
It's not that common , but does happen....
Optician