Do glasses improve your vision or just make it worst?

Question

See i just got glasses and the doctor said that these would help me see better. but my mother said that also if u keep them on to much(which i am supposed to do) they could worsein my visison. could not wearing glasses impove it? i am so confused so HELP!!!!

Answer 1

if they make your vision worse you probably have the wrong perscription

Answer 2

carrots can help but no matter what anybody sais they dont work. Listen Im 16 and my glasses are somewhat thick the lenses are for my age. I want contacts I cant stand my glasses I look better without them. I do not know how anybody can improve their vision yea some may say that lasic eye surgery will help but it wont do not get it. My eye doctor said thats even with lasic you will still need reading glasses. She has also said that lasic is not worth the cost and people do not know how to treat the effects it may cause. Any way live your life the way you want until somebody has the answer to your vision

Answer 3

Hi. I wear glasses too, and I wear them all the time. Wearing glasses does not help your eyes to improve, and neither does not wearing them. The only way to improve your eyesight is to take lots of vitamin A and/or get laser surgery done on your eyes. But that can be expensive and risky.

Answer 4

Your eyes may need some adjustment time. If you have them on a lot and it's not helping then go back to the optometrist - your prescription may be off. It's slightly possible that the glasses were made incorrectly but more likely what you thought worked for you when you were sitting in the chair really didn't. The optometrist only has your feedback to go on for what works and what doesn't, so if you think you've given them a fair try and they're still not working, then go back for an adjustment to your prescription.

Also, if you are young enough it's not uncommon for eyes to change within as little as a few weeks. That happened to my son - within two to four weeks he went from excellent vision to being quite nearsighted.

So, for whatever the reason, go back in. Glasses are supposed to help, not make things worse.

Answer 5

I was told that when I only needed glasses for seeing in the distance. If you wear glasses for far distances only when you can still see 5 feet in front of you, it can make your eyes worse and then you need a higher prescription. However, if you need your glasses to see close by, then wearing them will only help you see better, not make your vision worse.

Answer 6

depends on whom you believe. generally, the practice of staring, bad breathing/posture, not blinking frequently, and looking at a monitor for hours at a time will make your vision worse. look up bates' method for improving vision without glasses. i only wear mine when i can't see without them, and i'm perfectly happy. the doctor probably told you to wear them a lot so you'd get used to it; you don't want to be out on the road, confused by what your glasses tell you, and do something silly.

Answer 7

Glasses help your vision if they're made for your eyes, however sometimes people think they make your eyes worse because you can't see as well as you used to with them off after you've worn them for a while.

This is because they're taking up the slack of your weak eye. One of my eyes has better vision than the other, so before I got glasses it did all the work. Now that I have glasses, both my eyes work the same amount but when I take them off they're not used to seeing by themselves so everything is blurrier than it used to be. My eye sight hasn't changed for years, but it just seems like it has because I never knew how bad it was before I had my glasses.

If the eye doctor says you should use the glasses all the time, than listen to him. Parents are wonderful people but unless they've actually worked in a field sometimes they juse tell you rumors.

Answer 8

Glasses are made specifically for each special person depending on their eyes. Once you need them, you continue to wear them for the rest of your life. They are like medicine that you need to take always for a specific illness. Do not stop wearing them. Your eyes do not just improve or none of us would be wearing glasses.

Answer 9

Giving your mother the benefit of the doubt, she may simply mean that wearing NEW glasses for too long at FIRST may cause your eye muscles to fatigue. It takes a few days for your eyes to adapt to new glasses (or a new prescription).

If she means something else, then she is simply wrong (though it won't be particularly diplomatic to tell her that).

Glasses or contacts are needed when the lens in your eye isn't properly shaped. This is EXTREMELY common -- that's why so many people wear glasses or contacts. Glasses or contacts compensate for the defective shape of your natural eye and give you back perfect (or near-perfect) vision. Once yours eyes are adapted to the correction in the lens, you can wear your glasses every moment you're awake. Well, except maybe in the shower or when you go swimming. That doesn't work too well. :-)

Answer 10

it could either way but there supposed to improve your vision

Answer 11

In my experience it worked for a while, but my sight kept getting weaker, so I quit wearing them. 20 yrs. ago I needed them to pass my drivers License test, now I don't. Their also have been a lot of studies that show it will weaken your eyesight.