Correcting shortsightedness?!

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Hi john. I would say there are 3 main areas which govern your ability to see clearly.

1. Being able to use the ciliary and extraocular muscles of the eye to the full extent. (Which effectiveness is limited to the age of the crystalline lens)

2. The length of the eyeball (front to back)

3. Your need for being able to see in 20/20 vision (not everyone cares about having perfect vision)

So with number one you have to be comfortable to allow your eyes to rotate/move freely and for the ciliary muscle to contract fully (the contraction is caused when the object you're viewing is at the closest extent possible). Your distance vision occurs when all this contraction is released and the muscle reaches its true relaxed state.

Ok the things I'm talking about might seem obvious or overly simple but I believe for a few people (including myself) they get tense and overly conscious of using their near vision. This prevents the person from switching off from distractions and in the end they avoid settling into the use of their near vision.
Having this attitude for just one day isn't going to convert someone with normal vision to someone with bad vision but it can all become a habit. This habit would lead to the person routinely avoiding having a relaxed, unlimited approach to the use of their near vision.

With number two its generally accepted that myopic vision is caused by the eyeball developing an elongated shape (front to back) . It's unlikely that anyone answering your question knows the cause of this problem but it is known in the scientific community that any lens (concave or convex) has the long term ability to alter the shape of the eyeball in any direction.
Some people have taken this knowledge and used lenses to promote the changing of the eyeball shape back to being emmetropic (a round shape). Someone with myopia issues would apply this method to themselves by using plus powered lenses.

Rolling out this technique for everyone is unlikely to be practical. Most people are usually too busy for this kind of thing. Also selling the concept would be very hard work. The patient would still be required to wear glasses but with the extra burden of having to deal with long periods of blurred vision. So really its something for the determined person (with plenty of time and patience)

Footprint is an optician so hes obviously gonna protect his job by telling you theres no way you can correct your eyesight naturally. Eye doctors would be out of a job if no one needed glasses. I on the other hand corrected it with not only eye exercises, eye relaxation, healthy foods, and even mood can affect your eyesight. Your eye muscles are tense and you need to relax them. Unfortunately I can't tell you everything here but if you're interested email me at p7rosaurap7@yahoo.com I will give you not only exercises that will improve vision, but also ways you can relax your eyes and reduce eye strain.

No, there is no way to stop it or fix it naturally. If there was, it would be common knowledge and laser surgery wouldn't exist.

Wearing glasses doesn't make it worse either , that is just a silly myth from people who don't know better.

You have at least 9 or 10 years to wait before you can consider laser surgery anyway...it will be a lot different by then.

They won't do laser until you have finished growing and your eyes have stopped changing...that is usually in the early to mid 20's

Optician

You can't cure shortsightedness. Your prescription is likely to change by small amounts until your early twenties, but wearing or not wearing glasses will not affect this.
Lazer surgery would not be carried out until your prescription stops changing. Remember we don't yet know the long-time effects of lazer surgery, and it can cause "haloing" of your night vision. you will still need to wear glasses for reading when you reach your mid forties.
You should consider contact lenses if you don't like wearing glasses.

Your current alternatives are glasses, contact lenses or Ortho-K (Orthokeratology). Simplistically, Ortho-K used contact lenses to reshape the cornea while you sleep, so you do not need to wear contact lenses during the day. The treatment only last for a day or say, so you do have sleep in the lenses almost every night.

There is no scientific proof that eye exercises, eye vitamins or eating foods high in beta-carotene (carrots) or lutein will improve visual acuity. Numerous studies have been conducted and continue to be conducted on this subject and to date all results are inconclusive. If there were any real proof that any natural remedy could improve vision, believe me eye docs would not be able to suppress the information from the public. Anyone who says different is putting those that need corrective lenses or who have optical disease or problems at risk. Listening to quacks is dangerous to your health. Certain vitamin deficiencies can cause eye problems, but this usually occurs in poor countries where people are malnourished or because an individual's system cannot process the vitamin(s).

LASIK or Refractive Vision Correction surgery is laser surgery that can correct nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. No one should have this surgery until they are absolutely sure their vision has stabilized, usually in your early to mid twenties, give or take several years. If you have the surgery prior to total vision stabilization, you will have to have the surgery repeated. LASIK is considered cosmetic surgery, is not covered by health insurance and can be quite expensive. In the USA it could easily cost three to five thousand dollars or more, depending on your surgeon.
Lasik is irreversible and has only been used for a little over years, therefore the long term side effects are unknown. Hopefully, by the time you are old enough to have this procedure, most of the sight threatening risk and side effects will have been resolved or diminished.

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