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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
by 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 agoPerhaps 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 agoYeah, 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.