Have you heard of 55 yr old eyes improving in vision?
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June 27th, 2010
I went to the eye doctor on friday because I felt I couldn’t see clearly with my glasses and very poorly with my contacts. And it had been 4 years since a checkup. My prescription is weaker than it’s been in 10 years! I am searching the house for an old, old pair of glasses to take to his office to check. I have never heard of nearsighted vision improving. I’m going in tomorrow for the trial contacts.
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Happens all the time. It’s a result of presbyopia. Oddly, though it interferes with vision in some ways, it can also cause a near-sighted person’s visions to become more acute.
I’m familiar with presbyopia, I’ve had multifocal contacts and progressives for 13 years. Now they get better? I’ve always found it easier to read bare-eyed!
Yep. My progressive lenses have to be changed about once a year to accommodate a nearly 1 diopter change in acuity. This started when I was about 54. The lenses are getting progressively less powerful.
This has to be the best aging issue I’ve had!!
I have heard that as you get older, you get more far-sighted, and those who are near-sighted younger can get improvement in their vision.
My grandpa, who’s 91, can read without glasses now. He had glasses ever since he was in grade school.
Not until 10 seconds ago.
Cool! I have glasses (have had glasses since 4th grade,) but I can’t read with them on.
nothing has improved since i was 55!
Oh, I wish. My vision is so bad I have to keep my screen magnified, and I wear magnifying glasses over my regular prescription glasses while using the computer.
I’ve had that happen too with my nearsighted vision.
I used to wear glasses in my 40s, but now no longer have to.
My eyes improved drastically in vision in 1999. But I think the lasik surgery might have had something to do with it.
Yes. My own visual accuity improved considerably when I substituted running for smoking for ten years. : )
@janbb Yeah…it sure can give you a headache if that little print is more than one line long! I have to copy and paste into an empty comment space to read it!
sure fooled me about anything improving after 55! learn something everyday!
I’m near-sighted. I generally take my glasses off to read.
I wear one contact for close vision & one contact for distance and it works very well. Although I could get by just wearing one contact.
@BoBo1946
How’s that?? You’ve not heard of sex getting better after 55? : D
@CaptainHarley lmao…well, i’ve had 8 years to find that out Captain! When it happens, you will be the first one to know!
@BoBo1946
OMG! I HOPE I’m not the first one to know! Maybe the THRID, but not the FIRST! : P
ROFLMAO!!!! Dude, you’re dangerous!
Loll..only on the weekend Captain!
Never heard of that but if it’s true then that’s great!
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