Does It Sound Like I Need Glasses...?!
Question: Does It Sound Like I Need Glasses...?
For as long as I can remember, I have not had perfect vision and I think I have gotten used to it, but it is only recently that I have noticed that my vision has deterioated.
I have a lazy eye (a drift) and so used to visit the eye specialists at the hospital when I was a kid. They gave me reading glasses in hope of curing my eye, but it did nothing, and my vision was fine anyway.
It's been almost a decade since then, and like I said, I am only now starting to realise that my vision is not too good. I can see things up close very well, but I can't see things in the distance without them being blurry. I have to squint to read things on walls in classrooms, and just generally to see things better. Do people who struggle to see things in the distance have to wear glasses full-time?
I've had headaches and eyeaches on and off, but I doubt that my parents will believe that my vision is bad, because I went through a stupid phase when I was younger, where I told them I wanted to have glasses.
Also, whenever I have tried on anyone elses glasses (regardless of what type of glasses they are) my eye has started to drift. Is the drift simply because my eyes or adjusting, because the glasses weren't suited to me, or is it something that would happen all the time if I was to wear glasses?
Sorry for the long question(s) - I'm waffling!
Thank you very much, if you can help!
:)
Answers:
Hi!
You have strabismus, the lazy eye disease. It's caused by a malfunction of your eye muscles. Unfortunately, so you could process the information, when you were little your brain stopped to use both eyes simultaneously, so now your brain chooses to see with one or another. That's why you won't be able to see 3-D never.
The other problem seem to be myopia or nearsightedness. The focal plane of you eye is before the retina, so you use your eye muscles to deform your inner lens to focus. That gives you headache and eye(muscular)ache.
The reason why you need to go to an optometrist is because your eyes will drift even more if the prescription is not suited for you. You'll need to use optic glasses (sorry, not contact lens) permanently.
Anyway, go to an optometrist!
Hope it helps =]
This does sound like myopia to me and i've had it for 20 years. if this is confirmed you'll have to wear glasses full-time to myke the headaches stop.
See http://www.ehow.com/how_2248612_diagnose-myopia.html on how you can diagnose yourself but please see an ophthalmologist as well. Esp as I don't know anything on that "lazy eye" you have.
Good luck!
http://www.ehow.com/how_2248612_diagnose-myopia.html
An Optometrist could probably sharpen up your vision for distance.
Optometrist