Do I need eye surgery?!

You are near-sighted (this is called short-sighted in the UK). The technical name for this is myopia.

If you are over the age of 50, this is not myopia but presbyopia. You can buy reading glasses at the drug store (without a prescription) for a few bucks. Try a pair out. If this fixes the problem, then you're good to go. If you are near-sighted, then reading glasses will make things worse, so this is an easy test you can do yourself. If you are under the age of 45, then don't bother - you are not presbyopic.

If you are presbyopic, you will need reading glasses for the rest of your life.

If you are nearsighted (myopic), then you will need glasses, contacts, or surgery. Surgery is very expensive. Glasses are the cheapest way to go.

There are no vitamins or supplements or exercises that will help with presbyopia or myopia, although there are plenty of people who will sell you something that doesn't work.

There is one other possibility. This could not be a problem focusing. This could be a problem with your retina. There are very few diseases that damage the retinas of young people, and the ones that effect older people tend to damage night vision and peripheral vision before the patient notices a problem in fine vision (looking at the small letters on a screen). There is one worth mentioning. Diabetes. If you have diabetes, then you could be suffering retinal damage from poor blood sugar control. Please talk to a doctor if this is the case. I have been seeing an increasing number of younger people with diabetes who are showing retinal damage that is normally only seen in older people.

If you don't have diabetes, you need glasses. It won't make any long-term difference in your vision if you wear or don't wear glasses, so you choose if it is worthwhile. A lot of people incorrectly blame their glasses for making their vision worse (I got glasses, and then I started needing them) when the cause is the other way around (I started needing glasses, so i got them).

Call an optometrist or ophthalmologist's office and ask about vision services for people with low income in your area. There are ways you can get an exam and glasses.

Only an optometrist can test your vision, and refer you to an opthalmologist (eye surgeon) if required.

you might well do, its better to talk this through with an optician instead of some random person on the internet.

gonna need glasses