1 eye can't get 20/20 with glasses?!

1 eye can't get 20/20 with glasses?

My right eye's vision has been getting more and more blurry. I see halos when I look at light during the night and they seem to have a blur around them during the day. I can't seem to focus on letters or numbers very well. Went to an optometrist and she said I had a lazy eye. She didn't tell me how to remedy the problem or anything or even refer me to a doctor that might be able to help. Can't seem to get 20/20 on that eye. I noticed this starting to happen maybe 4 years ago now and it seems like its getting worse.

4 days ago
I'm 28 now and I'm pretty sure I had 20/20 when I was around 18 or so. I had gone to my old eye doctor when I was about 22 or so and the only thing he said was for me try the hard contact lens, which was really uncomfortable so I stuck with the soft lens.

wow. every answer so far is wrong and bad. how many bad answers can there be to one question, and how many know-it-alls are going recommend to "see an ophthalmologist" b/c an optometrist is "not a real doctor"? amazing.

okay agreed that if you never had anything wrong with that eye before, and that eye always saw 20/20 previously, then its probably not "amblyopia". although technically it still could be. lots of people have amblyopia and dont know it.

but that just means you need a SECOND OPINION. that does not mean that you MUST see an ophthalmologist. an ophthalmologist is a SURGEON. do you need surgery? who knows? i dont. these other 3 posters dont, either (but apparently they think they do). you probably DO NOT need surgery, IMO. statistically improbable, given your symptoms. the other 3 answerers here apparently think you DO need surgery. they apparently have training in this field (rolleyes). i personally think this sounds more like a corneal problem, like keratoconus or something. but what do i know? i'm certainly no "FDA researcher" (again with the rolleyes).

get a second opinion. you definitely do need to see someone else. go to a different optometrist. get a topography, which is a corneal map. most contact lens specialists have one.

and now i feel i must rebut the following REALLY bad answer from "bmac" who claims to be an FDA researcher:

"You need to see a REAL eye doctor. An opthalmologist. An optometrist is only a "doctor of optometry." And opthalmologist is a real medical doctor (M.D.) who specializes in eyes. They will figure out what's going on with your eye and fix it. Optometrists can't do anything but prescribe glasses or contacts. They cannot treat you.
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FDA researcher "

you are so grossly mis-educated that it is absolutely embarrassing. whomever it was who told you that complete BS about ophthalmologists being "REAL" eye doctors was absolutely wrong, and so are you. optometrists in every single state in the U.S. diagnose and treat eye disease on a daily basis with oral and topical medications. EVERY SINGLE state. all 50. so there goes your "only glasses and contacts" theory, as well as your "they cannot treat you" bullcrap. you very obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

anyway, its hard to take any answerer too seriously who cannot spell "ophthalmologist". that pretty much calls into question who the FDA is hiring these days, doesnt it? maybe thats why it takes so long and costs so much for new meds to be approved. maybe its b/c all FDA "researchers" are as mis-educated as THIS one is.