About presbyopia?

Question

I wonder for people who are having myopia, when they reach 40 and above and becomes presbyopia, will they be able to see far clearly instead, i mean most of them.

Answer 1

Sorry--your near vision will be affected by the presbyopia, and your far vision will still be heavily affected by the nearsightedness, This is why many people wear bifocals.

You can either buy bifocals to correct the problem (you'll have a + prescription in the lower part of the glasses and a - prescription in the far part of the glasses), or you can just get two different sets of glasses, one that you will use for reading, and the other which you will use for distances.

Answer 2

In short NO
Many people with myopia are able to read comfortably without eyeglasses or contact lenses even after age 40. Myopes considering refractive surgery are advised that surgically correcting their nearsightedness may actually be a disadvantage after the age of 40 when the eyes become presbyopic and lose their ability to accommodate or change focus because they will then need to use glasses for reading.

Answer 3

It really depends on how myopic you are. If your Rx. reads -1.00 chances are you will not need distance glasses as you age...just reading glasses. However, if your myopia is in the high minuses than you will have to wear bifocals or progressive multifocal lenses as you get older. My mother wears a -3.25 for distance but when she does her reading or needle point she feels much more comfortable taking her glasses off to see up close. My Rx. is a
-10.00 and with my contacts I feel like I could use a little bit of add power to help me see close work (reading glasses over contact lenses). I would also expect as I get older that my distance prescription will drop a little. Maybe not much but a diopter or so in my 40's would not be unusual by any means.

Answer 4

No. The myopia will remain - they will be presbyopic while wearing their glasses; removing them may have suffice for correcting the presbyopia while reading (depending on the strength of the lenses).

Answer 5

Presbyopia is the loss of accommodation, or the loss of the ability to focus at near, as we get older. This will occur to everyone starting in their mid 40’s, even if you have refractive surgery and get a perfect result. Presbyopia occurs because the lens in the eye cannot change shape from thin to fat in order to focus at near, as we get older. Since PRK and LASIK surgery is surgery on the cornea, it has no influence on the onset of presbyopia in the lens. There is no cure for presbyopia at this time. We will all need help to see up close in the form of reading glasses or bifocals, as we get older. If you are presbyopic now (hard to see up close) but you take your glasses off and use your nearsightedness to focus at near, understand that you will need reading glasses after your refractive surgery because you can not “take off” your refractive surgery like you “take off” your glasses to see at near. If you are in your forties and are seeking refractive surgery to help get your reading vision back, laser surgery will not be able to help you unless you want and are able to tolerate MONOVISION:

Answer 6

You just as will with your glasses on. It the nearness that becomes blurred because the lenses is hardening to a point that it can't make the adjustment to see up close.

Hence bi-focals. The top part is the usual prescription to see in a distance. The lower part to be able to see up close.

Answer 7

Ummm actually no, that is not how it works.....

Even with low to moderate myopic prescriptions, presbyopia does not have any affect on distance vision whatsoever....

I will use my father as an example.... he is myopic (around -3.00) now that he has become presbyopic he now can take his glasses off to read but still needs them to see far distances.

Presbyopia is due to the crystalline lens inside our eye loosing flexibility and therefore we loose our near focusing ability... which actually works out pretty good for low myopes for READING ONLY. Usually low myopes under -3.00 will benefit for reading distances. They still need correction for seeing far and therefore many myopes choose to wear multifocal/bifocal types of correction to avoid taking glasses off constantly to read since they need to correction anyways.

The same goes for higher myopes... no affect on seeing far distances and not enough affect on reading distance to even take off glasses to read. Higher myopes benefit from multifocal/bifocal correction as well!

Hope this clears it up a bit for you

Answer 8

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