Dear RT,

Subject: Decreasing range of accommodation with age.

Re:  Call it "presbyopia" -- if you wish.

With your 20/15 vision -- you are in excellent shape.

The range of accommdation decreases from age five
(about 13 diopters) to about 1 to 2 diopters as you go over
45.  Getting "older" does have its problems.

Thus, I agree with the majority-opinion OD on this
site.

You MIGHT have the choice of losing some of your
20/15 vision to keep your near vision clear.

Just get some low-cost readers -- and use them
when necessary.

Just one man's opinion,

Otis

Hello RT,

You can cure all your problem with the rest methods.
This is a bold and immense statement I know, but true for sure.
I have pasted here the story of 59 year old Catherine, who posted on
the iblindness forum some of her experience in curing presbyopia. You
will find it interesting perhaps.

"Ten days ago, I discovered Dr. Bates, his book, his method and
iblindness.org. With glasses, Day 1, I began reading Dr. Bakes' book.
It made so much sense to me that I immediately tried  palming as Dr.
Bates instructed and experienced very short clear flashing. I took off
my glasses and decided I would never put them on again unless
absolutely necessary. Dr. Bates completely convinced me that my near-
vision could be restored. On Day 2, I continued to read Dr. Bates book
and also began to practice Bates Method and convergence using Dr.
Gottlieb's Presbyopia Reduction Chart. On Day 3, when outside in the
sunshire and without glasses, I was astounded to find myself reading
and seeing clearly with near-vision. However, when I went indoors, my
near-vision blurred again.

On Day 4, I decided to dedicate all my free time to Bates Method and
improve my vision as rapidy as possible. At this point, I began
sunning and continued combining Bates Method with convergence
practice. When working with eye charts indoors, blurring diminished,
but on Day 5, I started experiencing  refraction errors. I began
imagining letters with perfect white halos and by Day 7 all the
astigmatic-type refraction errors ceased.  I was spending 6-9 hours a
day practicing Bates Method both indoors and outdoors.

Fortunately, I work at home, so my schedule is very flexible. I
dropped everything except absolutely necessary work on the computer
and set my monitors to lowest resolution so as to be able to work
without glasses. Even so the screen was blurry, so I  increased
browser text size to enormous. This is enormously inconvenient and my
work takes twice as long to accomplish, but I only resort to glasses
for when absolutely necessary, and less and less frequently. When
working on computer, I practice palming, shifting and flashing to
clear vision.

On Day 7, while alternating convergence and palming, I imagined along
these lines: here we are, the three of us, ego, mind and eyes. I told
my mind, just see how dear eyes, through no fault of their own, but
due to our own ignorance, have been locked in behind glasses for
twelve years. Now we know that dear eyes are perfect and always were
perfect. Mind and eyes, you are one but have both suffered from being
separated. I (ego) now give up trying to force eyes to see. Mind, you
are the seer! I am returning eyes  to your care, so please remember
how you used to see and assist eyes by relearning how control the
muscles and nerves that help eyes to do what always did so well. Now I
am just going to imagine black, and you, mind, are now completely free
to restore eyes to their naturally perfect shape and function. Mind
was very responsive to this coaching. Intermittently during this
session, I experienced almost-electrical impulses stimulating my eye
muscles. These sensations arose at intervals with a regularity that
reminded me of childbirth labor contractions. These sensations were
accompanied by what felt like gritty particles being dislodged and
released from around and behind my eyeballs. I made sure to breathe
and relax through the process so as to not interpret any discomfort
from these sensations as pain that might interfere with what my mind
was accomplishing. I understood that my mind was reestablishing its
connection with eyes. Although I remained emotionally calm and just
observed what was happening, tears poured from my eyes and snot from
my nose. Since this session, my vision clearing is considerably
faster, and every clearing brings incremental lasting improvement.

Since Day 3, clearing of my vision in sunlight has never diminished
but only improved. Any blurring on computer and under indoor lighting
improves with frequent palming. I continue combining Bates Method with
convergence practice. Last night, Day 9, I began to be able to read in
bright indoor lighting.

When I started wearing glasses, my only problem was reading small
print within arms-length distance, but during the twelve years my eyes
were locked in their glasses prison, my near-vision gradually receded
to the point where objects and print many feet or yards away were
blurry. Since taking off my glasses and practicing Bates Method, every
day the range of clarity approaches nearer, as if my near-vision is
"coming at me".

Thanks to Bates Method, I begun experiencing astounding depth
perception, nuances of shadow, light and sunlight, colors and details
that I had been deprived of by glasses. Now when I work with my eye
charts and, as I begin to read indoors again, I know how to clear my
vision and transform gray into black and white and how to bring into
sharp focus any blur. And my recovery of perfect imagination has only
just begun! I really did not expect such fast improvement from Bates
Method, but here I am reading without glasses and relearning to see
with my imagination.

Funny thing the other day, a glasses-wearing photographer told me it
is not possible that my near-vision recovery could be really
happening. I asked him if he meant that for twelve years, even when my
glasses weren't on my nose, I was only imagining I had lost my near-
vision?  "Yes," he said, "it's all in your imagination."  haha!
"That's exactly right," I told him, "and that's why the Bates Method
works!"  "This is all very interesting," he replied, "but I've got to
run.""

Well,
It worked for me just for now.

They had theory that it is lens , that loosing flexibilyty.
If it is lens nothing could be done.
But new MRI research does not confirm the changes in the
lens mechanical properties.\:

"While some studies of the isolated lens have implicated mechanical
changes
in lens material as a causal factor in presbyopia development, it has
frequently
been noted that these studies fail to account for the early onset of
accommodative
loss and suffer from significant post mortem tissue changes, the
application of
non-physiological forces, and inappropriate statistical treatment of
the data; when
adequate statistical analysis is performed, no change in lens
mechanical properties
is found until after age 70."

then in the same article:

"Additionally, any mechanical changes in the lens that may occur
with age could be a result, not a cause, of presbyopia; it has
long been theorized that a certain amount of accommodative
lens movement is needed to prevent biochemical degradation of t
he lens material."

http://www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=4004

It destroys little bit the old theory

What you wrote is extremely  interesting:

"I find my "need" for readers is not

"
That supports  that it is not a lens. If it were the lens You would
not have that
fluctuations

.But even Otis rather sceptical about prevention of that

just try to think what is different when you can and can not read
clearly.
Try to think about that weeks.

It is very interesting fro me too.

What should been changed ?

When i went back to very fine print I could not
really read it, But I knew that for two month nothing
could change i just start read badly, then in 20-30 min I forgot
about it, In the couple of ours I just cougt
myself that I am just fine, just "roll back"

It work for me. But what is the possibility that it will work
for anybody else ? Do not know.

Your vision is fine now
Just keep it like it is.