worried about my eyesight?

Question

I have an issue. I have had great eyesight up until about a few months. Now i find that things are blurry at times and i have to squint sometimes to see especially far away.. Do i need glasses? what is causing this or what is it? I have an appt with eye doctor in march.

i am 29 almost 30 in march.

Answer 1

"Eye exercises" are limited because they are based on misconceptions. I've done a lot of research on this and have had vision improvement. Read my post dated February 21, 2007 @ 10:59 am at http://improvingmyeyesight.com/blog/?p=30#comment-114 ... the post at that link will most likely be the most important post you will ever read regarding vision improvement. This I promise you.

I use techniques which are designed to promote natural habits of the eye to be used 24/7, similar to the habits used by people with perfect eyesight. I used to have 20/100 and then after a month it was 20/40 all of a sudden. This does not even include the mental 'clear flashes'. With the mental clear flashes, I can see better to such a tremendous degree that it would make no sense to most people -- my visual acuity goes to 20/13 or better! The first time this happened, I could see the strands of people's hair up to 1/4 mile away. I could also see the details inside a jet stream in the sky about 30-50 miles away. The 20/13 has been confirmed on a Snellen eye chart, under similar conditions. Most people probably have no idea what it's like being able to see that well, but it's like being in paradise - no kidding. I posted my success story here: http://www.iblindness.org/forum/index.php/topic,401.0.html

The Bates Method teaches you about the following:

1) healthy eye habits which are exactly the same used by people with perfect sight
2) relaxing the muscular and nerve system to benefit the vision system, in such a way that can cure even blindness (I know what people are thinking, so I just ask that you read the first link I posted above before jumping to conclusions - there is a history that most people are not aware about regarding the optometry school)
3) creating mental imprints which drastically improve eyesight, similar to the idea of what many people would call "muscle memory"

It has changed my entire understanding of how the mind plays a role in vision. William H. Bates is the only person to my knowledge who has ever done intensive studies on modifying vision through the eye of the mind itself, by leaving mental imprints of an image appearing better than usual through visualization. The result of the visualizations? 'Clear flashes' which come from those mental imprints. It makes sense, there have been scientific experiments using 'trick lens' which flipped the world upside-down when the subject wore it and after only 3 days of wearing the lens, the brain automatically flipped it right way up. After the lens were discarded, the world appeared to be on its head, but the brain shortly afterwards flipped it to where it originally had been before starting the experiment. This makes sense because after we are born, the image projected on the retina is upside-down, and the brain does a similar thing for us. Otherwise, we'd still be seeing the world upside-down! My point: the brain is capable of being programmed to see better because vision is largely a mental process. Think of optical illusions and all that.

So I recommend that after you read both of my posts, you consider giving the Bates Method a try.

Here are other useful links:

Information about Bates Method:
http://www.iblindness.org/

Forum for posting questions:
http://www.iblindness.org/forum/

Recommended reading:
http://www.amazon.com/Relearning-See-Improve-Eyesight-Naturally/dp/1556433417/sr=8-1/qid=1171419417/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-4535734-9580161?ie=UTF8&s=books

BTW, the Bates method applies to anyone, regardless of degree of myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, etc. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I wouldn't worry. Your eyes change a lot when you are a teenager, and it sounds like yours changed a lot, and now you really really need glasses. When I was about 13, I got my first pair of glasses. I didn't really need them that much, but I started to wear them more and more until my next appointment. I didn't feel like they helped me much. At my next appointment, it turns out my eyes got A LOT worse, which sounds like what happened to you. My prescription was -.75, and after a year, it was -3.25, which is a pretty massive increase. It sounds like you need them all the time too, based on you struggling to read from a foot or two away. But don't worry about your eyes needing stronger glasses. It's not a problem, and you can still see with lenses.

Answer 3

I don't know how old you are, but you could need glasses. Our eyes change as life goes on. Your eyes may also be dry. I was told to put a warm washcloth on my eyes for 10 minutes at bedtime, then use those artificial tears (not the ones for red-eye, just the plain ones) a couple times a day. That has helped my vision be clearer.

Answer 4

You can perhaps try doing exercises to improve your vision. I recently started doing eye exercises to try to improve my vision. I created a blog where I record my progress with the exercises.

My vision is 20/400, which is really poor.

Other people have posted comments about their experiences as well. You can check it out at: http://improvingmyeyesight.com/blog

Hope this helps...

Answer 5

same thing happened to me. i had to get glasses after 36 years of perfect eyesight.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

how old are you? if you're young, then your eyes are still changing and can be prone to nearsightedness (which is what you described - can't see far away, things are blurry).

Answer 8

You may need glasses as it certainly sounds like it.