Comments on: Ask Mike: Do glasses make vision worse?

By: pearl

pearl — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:03:52 +0000

should I bother getting glasses for a prescription of +2.25?I am able to read without glasses.

By: nix

nix — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:50:10 +0000

my vision has always been pretty good, but not perfect i have glasses but never wear them. coming from a lengthy conversation with my eye doc on the subject, he said that wearing glasses should not decrease eyesight, but not wearing glasses may improve eyesight, which happened to me. he theorized that my eyes improved due to them being exercised by the slight stress of not having quite 20/20 and not wearing my glasses, though that made me think that would make them worse. what made more sense to me was his other theory that my eyes are the same, but my brain has adapted to the slightly sub par eye sight and has gotten better at identifying shapes and structures, which makes it seem like my eyesight improved but really ive just mastered the use of my sub-par eyes

By: natique

natique — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:03:22 +0000

i myself have been wearing glasses for as long as i can remember (since the age of 8), i am now 33, i want to believe that “illusion” is a myth, i have always wondered all my life if glasses really make your eyes worst, to how i am seeing how, if i was seeing like that before the glasses, i wouldnt be able to get around, so , i believe my eyes have dramaticallly decreased

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:56:21 +0000

cool
i never wore before well i don even want to wear it but i was just wondering if wearing speactaculs make it worse? let’s find out!

By: Esther H

Esther H — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:46:45 +0000

When I was 40 I got my frist pair of glasses.At times when I have forgot them and need to read something real quick I’ve squinted to see the words and is still a blur. Although I do know that excerise is good and will strenthen them to a extend. My eyes have stayed the same for 20 yrs so what I’m saying is take care of what you have and listen to the doctors after all thats why they get payed the big bucks.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 16 May 2010 03:18:38 +0000

12 years ago I received my 1st glasses, a weak prescription and told to wear them all of the time, and I did. 2 years later I go back to the optometrist and my eyes are worse and need a stronger, albeit still weak prescription.
I ran into a friend whom had worn glasses all through school, but no longer did, because she stopped and her eyes improved.
So I started only wearing them when I needed them, which was for night time driving. 10 years later I still have the same prescription, they (optometrists) are amazed. I since have had to get reading glasses, and do the same, although they want me to do the bifocals, and for the last 10 years that prescription has stayed the same; I only use them when I need them.
Good sunlight and no squinting = no glasses. I am in the camp of glasses make the eyes worse, but I do believe their are exceptions, but I don’t know what they are. I am not an expert. I just know what I know.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:05:53 +0000

I am wearing glasses from almost 1 yr now, when I started wearing glasses and removed after a week for normal routine I thought the same way because I was used to see perfect vision with my glasses. I started removing glasses for couple of hours each day when I watch TV or doing something at home. Now I feels like my vision is improving without glasses.

By: shan5012

shan5012 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:43:44 +0000

my late dad was a myopic by youth but his vision became perfect without any aid as he aged , meaning vision is correctable. theres a kind of black-holes spectacle avail from Daiso(or Japanese 2-dollar shop) . i used it to read books n watch tv. after few hours, my vision look perfectly clear but last temporarily. i didnt follow up much often cos my life is spent on earning a meagre living, feeding a fat boss.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:42:04 +0000

well i don’t think glasses make your eyesight worse if you have the right prescription. However, the rate at which your eyesight deteriorates depends on you age. For example, if you get glasses in your teens, your eyesight will get worse until you are about 20, where it will level off, and stop changing

By: Destrii

Destrii — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:25:31 +0000

I’ve worn glasses since I was 8 and lenses since I was 13. I’m personally short-sighted and, from what I understood, it’s common to grow out of long-sightedness but not short-sightedness. (As for astigmatism, which I also have, I have no idea.) And my vision has indeed gotten worse over the years. (I’m not an old granny, but still!) I know it has – my prescription changes whenever I visit the optician, and I used to, say, be able to read a newspaper without glasses, which I now can’t unless it’s less than a foot away from my face.

I mean, I’m no optician, so I don’t know. I’d always assumed that glasses made your eyes strain less to read things, so they’d slow down the speed at which your lenses distorted and your eyesight got worse. But then again I’d never even thought there *was* a debate over whether glasses make your eyes worse over time. Very odd.