Farsighted and nearsighted?

Question

I am almost 19, and I have a farsighted eye and a nearsighted eye. I hate the way my eyes look in glasses--one of my eyes is magnified, and the other looks shrunk.

my prescription:
Right: +1.00 sphere, +1.00 cylinder, 120 axis
Left: -3.25 sphere, +.50 cylinder, 90 axis

I know that I am not yet 19, and my eyes will keep changing up to a certain age. However, I want to know how high my sphere numbers could get in my eyes before they level off (maximum possible estimate), considering that my eyes will get worse with time just because of age, until they finally level off. I'm assuming that nothing weird would happen to my eyes, like I would get cataracts. I'm afraid that, before my eyes level off, I might get to the point where I'll be wear a -7.00 lens in my left eye, and a + some number lens in the other eye, and I will look like a total weirdo in glasses.

Would wearing contacts help to minimize the difference in my eye sizes, as they are perceived?

Also, I know that nearsightedness gets worse with time. Does farsightedness get more extreme with time (I mean when you are a kid, not when you get prebyopia as an adult)? I ask because my left I used to be slightly farsighted when I was 7 (probably as a result of my right eye being lazy before it was corrected) but then it went nearsighted with time. So I figured that farsightedness lessens with time, in normal circumstances.

I cetainly don't want my farsighted eye prescription to go up in magnitude to like a +3 or anything--then I would really look like a freak if I were wearing like a -7.00 sphere in one eye and a +3.00 in the other eye.

Actually, I know that the sphere of -3.25 means that I am nearsighted in my left eye.

Answer 1

First of all, your at an age where your eyes are almost stabilized. Meaning, you may have some slight changes but not major. This is the norm anyway. Contact lenses would certainly be ideal for you as they will not make your eyes look any different. However, if you have a lazy eye the Dr. may have prescribed prism in your lenses that cannot be corrected with contact lenses. Do you see anything on your prescription that has a triangle with a number and arrrow beside it? if not, I would definitely discuss getting contact lenses with the Dr.

Some advantages of getting contacts, if you are a candidate that is are:
1) Aesthetically, your eyes will appear the same
2) better overall vision
3) Less change in your Rx. overtime as the contacts do not allow for as much change in the shape of the eye

Answer 2

Both your eyes are farsighted, the left more than the right. Or did you mean -1.00 +1.00 x 120 for the right?

Farsightedness, unlike nearsightedness, does not tend to increase with age; you may be a maximum now. Has it been changing?

Contacts would totally solve the apparent size difference; the size difference is totally due to the glasses.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Getting contacts will help to stabilize your eyes. That is what my doctor told me. My son has been wearing contacts since he was 8 and his vision has stay pretty much the same. I wear -8.00 in both eyes. I am now doing what they call mono vision. I wear one for distance and one for reading. It takes a while to get use to but I love it. I don't see why you couldn't get contacts. You will love them.