Do glasses improve or ruin your eyesight?!

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none actually. ur eye sight becomes worse over time, wearing glasses slows down the process
it also has never been proven that tv or pc screens ruin ur sight, but just to be safe its better to buy glasses that reflect rays. its a bit more expensive but it doesn't make a difference in size shape or how it works with ur eyes

Here's the deal. You need them to see far, BUT it won't hurt you to keep them on while you are reading. Your eyes will accommodate for near while you are young, but at age 40 or so, we start to lose accommodation and need reading correction as well as distance, resulting in a bifocal or separate readers.

Eye exercises will do nothing for you, wearing your glasses will not make your eyes worse or better. It all has to do with the shape of the eye and how light comes to a focus on the retina. The prescription is a formula for curvature. The curvature of your lenses will allow light to focus on the retina and make you see better. As you grow, the correction can increase over the years, resulting in stronger glasses until around age 20 when it can typically level off to more minor changes. That's just the way it is, just that simple.

You don't need to wear them to read, but you also don't need to keep removing them every time you need to see something up close. If it makes a big difference in your distance vision just wear them all the time and take them off just when you are going to sit and read only.

Your eyesight is what it is, and it may change over time, especially if you're still growing.

Wearing your glasses will allow you to see clearly, but it will not have an effect on how your eyesight changes over time.

So yes, wear them all the time, unless you want to see poorly. And no, eye exercises will not improve your eyesight.

Think of it this way, if wearing glasses makes your eyes worse, and not wearing them is better for your eyes, why would you need glasses in the first place?

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And while you might like Nick's answer, since he's supporting your position, he's incorrect.

No! Wear them as little as possible (only when you really need to). If you wear them all the time your eyes will accommodate to wearing your glasses and you'll find your prescription will get stronger and stronger over time. This is how opticians make their money! If you really have to wear glasses it is best to wear ones that under-correct your vision.

Glasses DO NOT change vision at all. Perhaps you have an astigmatism, which can get worse if glasses aren't worn. But it comes down to your doctor thinking you need them all the time. Think of it this way: your vision is half as good as a "normal" person's

Being a layman, i tend to notice most of my colleagues with ''sunken eyes'' after many years of using glasses. So yeah, me thinks they are bad if used continuously and unnecessarily.

They will improve your eyesight if they perscribed to you. DO NOT use anyone elses glasses that could ruin your eyesight. Hope this helps!

try contacts

You have common sense and intuition. Most eye doctors are very genuine, nice, and want to help. They are just so endoctrinated by their association and bound by their profession that they cannot see what many people see. Because of this, 60 to 80 percent of us have blurry vision and have to wear Artificial Corrections(glasses, contacts, surgery).

When we go to an optometrist, they give us prescriptions to see 20/20 in the worst circumstances - their office. When we go outside of their office on an average day these prescriptions give us razor sharp 20/15 or even 20/10 vision. This is cool temporarily, but they are too strong and often lead to blurrier vision quicker.

You are very correct about glasses being too strong up close. Most people with distance prescriptions should not be wearing them up close, they are way too strong and will blurr vision much quicker. Anyone who can feel can feel the strain and effort it takes to read through distance glasses up close. They tell us that eyestrain has to be fixed with glasses, but glasses strain has to be gotten used to.

Eye professionals love to say that eye exercises do not work. They are correct but they are deceptive. Just because eye exercises don't work, doesn't mean there is no hope of natural perfect eyesight. We get blurry vision because we use our eyes incorrectly during stressful times. Artificial corrections do not address this problem so blurry vision habits get locked in. Because we do not address the real issues of blurry vision it often gets worse anytime we have stress. If we unlearn the blurry vision habits and reintegrate the correct vision behaviors, most of us can return to natural perfect eyesight.

I am a Certified Natural Eyesight Improvement Instructor in Utah. I have many students who are improving their eyesight and several who have obtained perfect vision and are no longer dependant upon artificial corrections.
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