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Medical Forum / General / Vision / August 2006Pros and Cons of wearing glasses...
I am over 40 and don't wear any glasses. I can see fine and don't get any headaches. I noticed that lately my eyes strain when I try to read something closer than 1 foot. I read magazines, newspapers, and computer screen just fine. I recently got my eyes checked by an eye doctor (due to pressure from family members). I read all the letter fine in the test, but the doctor determined that (using a computerized machine) I have 0.75 power in both my eyes and recommended glasses. I bought a couple of pairs of glasses and there is no doubt that when I wear those glasses, I can read much clearly. Here is my question. If I start wearing glasses now, does my sight get worse? I am wondering whether reading without glasses gives my eyes enough exercise and slows it down from getting worse quickly. Thank you for your time. You will get to profoundly contradictory answers. I would suggest understanding them as the "majority opinion" and the second-opinion. Skark> Here is my question. If I start wearing glasses now, does my sight get worse? Otis> If you mean that your refractive STATE will adapt to that lens -- If you wear them all the time -- they will. Skark> I am wondering whether reading without glasses gives my eyes enough exercise and slows it down from getting worse quickly. Otis> The second-opinion suggestion would be to keep them off unless absolutly necessary. Just one man's opinion. Otis skark...@gmail.com wrote: > I am over 40 and don't wear any glasses. I can see fine and don't get > any headaches. I noticed that lately my eyes strain when I try to read [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Thank you for your time. > You will get to profoundly contradictory answers. I would suggest > understanding them as the "majority opinion" and the second-opinion. Please disregard Otis's postings. He is not in the medical profession and not in any position to give medical advice Thank you! Allen > Just one man's opinion. Offered by our resident troll., with no measurements, publications or science to back it up. No, skarkada, reading glasses do not accelerate presbyopia. -MT, OD > I am over 40 and don't wear any glasses. I can see fine and don't get > any headaches. I noticed that lately my eyes strain when I try to read [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > worse? I am wondering whether reading without glasses gives my eyes > enough exercise and slows it down from getting worse quickly. Wearing glasses will not make your eyes get worse. You now need some help with near vision due to a loss of accommodative ability which is normal with age. In fact, your ability to focus at near has been gradually decreasing since you were born. This process will continue whether you get reading glasses or not. Reading without glasses will not slow down the process, reading with glasses will not speed it up. If print is clearer and you are more comfortable with glasses, then use them For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia Dr Judy You will need reading glasses if you want to see clearly from near. You probably needed readers since your late 30s but have been putting up with blur and eyestrain. Lots of people do that as they hate facing the inevitable. >You will need reading glasses if you want to see clearly from near. You >probably needed readers since your late 30s but have been putting up >with blur and eyestrain. Lots of people do that as they hate facing the >inevitable. I doubt it. The 30s is very young for presbyopia. More like the late 40s or early 50s. > I am over 40 and don't wear any glasses. I can see fine and don't get > any headaches. I noticed that lately my eyes strain when I try to read [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Thank you for your time. Welcome aboard Flight 40 to Presbyopia. I realized I was on the same trip one day when I was around 41 and completed a lot of close-in detail work with a fine paintbrush. Everything became increasingly blurry the more I worked. Couldn't figure out what was happening. I suppose now it was just my eyes trying to focus up close, but getting exhausted from the effort because the lenses just wouldn't accomodate anymore. About those first corrective lenses, I remember the first time I put on some OTC reading glasses. I was sitting at a bar and suddenly the grain in the wood had detail like I hadn't seen for quite a while. And about that idea of reading without glasses to give your eyes enough exercise: I "exercised" my eyes like that for over forty years straight. It didn't help. Cheers, mC > Welcome aboard Flight 40 to Presbyopia. I realized I was on the same trip > one day when I was around 41 and completed a lot of close-in detail work [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Cheers, > mC Yea its funny how many presbyopes go in a blur at near. Many actually need readers in their mid to late 30s but have enough accomodation to still somewhat see and read from near. Vainity and denial cause them to put off readers till they can no longer see worth squat from near. You mentioned you hadnt seen details in wood grain for a while, this means you had trouble seeing clear from near for years before you gave in and got readers. If I werent myopic, I would also get readers for any extended reading and possibily for eating meals where I need to see the details in my food. I dont tolerate any blur from near because all my life I had perfect near vision. I am used to blurry distance vision so am not picky there, most myopes arent either. |
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