Do your eyes get much worse through teen years?!

There is no way to predict what will happen with your vision.

Your prescription could double or triple, or stay almost like it is now.

Typically the most changes happen between ages 10 and 16 , so you are almost out of the worst time for big changes.

The only thing you can do to try and help is NOT wear them for extended reading and computer. They are for distance use, so when you can remove them for close work , do so.

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Your prescription is fairly mild and your did not start needing glasses until after you started, so I would not think your vision would only get slightly worse. Many teens experience a decrease in vision during puberty and often until your vision stabilizes which usually happens in your early to mid-twenties. Sorry, but it is impossible to predict exactly how much your vision might change over the years and there is no point worrying about something you can't predict or change.

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Hi theres a good website which will be full of stuff youd probably find very useful for what you want:

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/len…

it has so much stuff in it. i just learned reading it now that floaters are caused by the gel inside the eye warming up. Then debris (floaters) that were previously immobile can then start moving around. When this debris passes through the center of the eye it casts a shadow on the retina. Thats what we end up complaining about...

Ok there you go. The actual answer for why we sometimes see floaters.


Anyway back to your question.
The eyesight of an average adult remains better than 20/20 until reaching the age of (roughly) 50.
From the time of birth until death the average persons eyesight goes through a constant deterioration. This deterioration involves the "amplitude of accommodation" (the range we can see clearly from near to far).
From birth to the age of 20 this rate of decline is at its fastest. From the age of 20 until death this rate continues but at a slower pace of 2 diopters every 5 years.

Myopia is not caused by genetics. So expecting your "journey of myopia" to be already mapped out is nonsense. There are many factors that effect eyesight. Some trivial and some stupid (but still possible)

The trivial ones are not actually being bothered with having blurred vision. People vary in how important clarity of vision is for them. Some people dont care if they walk down a street and everyones face is a blur. Some people will panic if they cant see a single leaf on a tree.
The other factors come from research involving children in various countries.

Its well known that singapore kids tend to have worse eyesight than australian kids. So some scientists did some research on the matter to find out what the cause may be of this difference. (the study made sure that all the kids featured in it were of chinese ethnicity and of the same age groups. That way racial differences would not confuse the results.
They couldn't see much difference in the amount of reading the children did but there was a marked difference in the amount of time spent outdoors. They concluded kids in australia tended to have better eyesight due to spending more time outdoors.

Source:
http://www.v2020la.org/pub/PUBLICATIONS_…


By the way the most likely cause of your myopia is an elongation of your eyeball. If this is prevented from continuing then you have a good chance of keeping your eyesight at 1.00D or improving it (until old age where you will no longer be able to maintain a high standard). You;ll get some people saying the same old thing (if they actually admit elongation takes place):
"Its all genetics and noone can stop their eyesight from deteriorating. Wearing or not wearing glasses will not change a thing".
Fine believe that if you want. But would you like someone so sure of this opinion to also be clear on WHY a person with myopia has an eyeball that is constantly elongating? Personally i would like someone attempting to be the authority on a matter to actually KNOW the cause of the problem (before they dish out advice on it).


Here are some sites with suggestions on how to avoid bad vision habits and maintain optimum eye health:

http://www.natural-vision.co.uk/
http://www.visionsofjoy.org/


If you need more convincing about myopia not beig linked with genetics then check this out:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles…

It was obvious something drastic was happening with the eskimos populations in alaska. While the majority of grandparents had virtually no visual impairments, virtually all grandchildren had various degrees of myopia in their vision. This research looks into whats happening there and what might be behind it.