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Knew a co-worker who'd worn glasses her whole life said her eye sight got better after she turned 50. The optometrist told her the muscles around your eye weak
by ourmandave 9y ago
Knew a co-worker who'd worn glasses her whole life said her eye sight got better after she turned 50.
The optometrist told her the muscles around your eye weaken and don't squeeze your eyeball as well, thus changing the focal point.
- cordite 9y agoSomeone around that age at my workplace had a moment like that too, in fact he went from near sighted to far sighted and had to get new glasses.
- walterbell 9y agoThis HN comment has a good diagram about myopia vs presbyopia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16196062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16196062
- JepZ 9y agoThat diagram is pretty cool :D It explains the terms in a visual way with 5 ascii lines (probably a little exaggerating and not 100% correct, but easy to grasp).
- jpindar 9y agoThat's very common. People with good eyesight tend to become farsighted as they get older - hence their need for reading glasses - and people who are nearsighted tend to become less nearsighted.
- lttlrck 9y agoI was told by my optometrist not to get laser surgery to correct short sightedness because as I get older my eyes will naturally become longer sighted. So if I reset my eyes through surgery now I would then need glasses to correct long sightedness in about 10 years... I was 40 at the time. Basically I left it too late. Surgery for just 10 years without glasses is barely worth it for me as I only wear glasses for driving.
- JepZ 9y agoActually, I wonder why we don't need to 'workout' our eyes? I mean there are muscles in our eyes and staring at a constant distance monitor all day can't be any better to those muscles than sitting the whole day to the rest of the body.
- walterbell 9y agoWe should. Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16146106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16146106