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Well... my eyes have gotten progressively worse (more myopic) since I started wearing glasses regularly to work about 5 years ago. This was in my early 30s. B

Well... my eyes have gotten progressively worse (more myopic) since I started wearing glasses regularly to work about 5 years ago. This was in my early 30s. Before that I didn't wear glasses most of the time, but I still had some myopia that could be irritating at times. I could still, eg. drive comfortably without glasses. I can no longer do that. It's something that has felt wrong to me, and worried me a lot (you know, since I use my eyes for a lot of things that are important to me). I will definitely look further into this and try the techniques discussed here.

lefrenchy 5y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding here, but I don't think you should attribute the progression of myopia to your glasses. It's likely it would have happened regardless, correlation not causation.
- trey-jones 5y ago
  Perhaps I misunderstood Slide 16: Myopia progresses in two stages: (1) near work induces lens spasm, causing pseudo-myopia; (2) use of minus lenses temporarily improves distance vision, but leads to eye elongation and axial myopia. The result of elongation is a need to prescribe stronger minus lenses, in a vicious cycle of ever stronger lenses. I haven't watched the video yet, but this sounds like my experience.
  - lefrenchy 5y ago
    Yeah, it's possibly true but I guess I'm just skeptical that glasses make it worse. It just seems like it would be easy to confuse the symptoms (eye elongation and axial myopia) as being caused by the glasses rather than just by whatever factors originally caused the myopia (or if it was genetic/age driven). From a brief search it seems that studies show that glasses don't make eyesight worse.
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ikerdanzel 5y ago
I was prescribed with glasses when I was 10. I flat out not wearing them for many decades. Myopia and astig stay about the same as I was first diagnose. What my grands told me me seems to be true. Not wearing glasses your eyesight won't get worst.

lefrenchy 5y ago

Maybe I'm misunderstanding here, but I don't think you should attribute the progression of myopia to your glasses. It's likely it would have happened regardless, correlation not causation.

trey-jones 5y ago
Perhaps I misunderstood Slide 16: Myopia progresses in two stages: (1) near work induces lens spasm, causing pseudo-myopia; (2) use of minus lenses temporarily improves distance vision, but leads to eye elongation and axial myopia. The result of elongation is a need to prescribe stronger minus lenses, in a vicious cycle of ever stronger lenses. I haven't watched the video yet, but this sounds like my experience.
- lefrenchy 5y ago
  Yeah, it's possibly true but I guess I'm just skeptical that glasses make it worse. It just seems like it would be easy to confuse the symptoms (eye elongation and axial myopia) as being caused by the glasses rather than just by whatever factors originally caused the myopia (or if it was genetic/age driven). From a brief search it seems that studies show that glasses don't make eyesight worse.

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ikerdanzel 5y ago

I was prescribed with glasses when I was 10. I flat out not wearing them for many decades. Myopia and astig stay about the same as I was first diagnose. What my grands told me me seems to be true. Not wearing glasses your eyesight won't get worst.