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Presbyopia and myopia are not opposite; in fact, you can have both at once! My mother has to wear bifocals for precisely this reason.
by rntz 11y ago
Presbyopia and myopia are not opposite; in fact, you can have both at once! My mother has to wear bifocals for precisely this reason.
- metasean 11y agoI too have extreme myopia, but am old enough to be suffering from presbyopia also, and frustratingly have the bifocals to prove it. While presbyopia is not technically the opposite of myopia, it is functionally the opposite. > Presbyopia (from Greek presbys (πρέσβυς) = old man + ops (ὤψ) = see like, sight > meaning literally trying to see as old men do[1]) is a condition associated with aging in which the eye exhibits a progressively diminished ability to focus on near objects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia