Is it true that if you don't wear your prescribed glasses...?

Question

your eyes will get worse? Cause when I wore my glasses for the first time, the next day my eyes seemed to have gotten worse. Is it possible that you can actually make your eyes worse from wearing them instead?

Answer 1

I think that you got used to seeing well when wearing your glasses so it became all the more noticeable when you took them off.

Everybody always seems to say one of the 2 following things 1] wearing your glasses makes your vision worse! 2] not wearing your glasses makes your vision worse! The thing is, for most people who need glasses, your vision will get worse whether you wear your glasses or not. Usually, it stops getting worse when you're about 20, or so.

Answer 2

the first answerer is right.
when i first put my glasses on, at the eye doctor's, for the very first time, i took them off the see the difference and i almost fell backwards, because it seemed the glasses had made my eyes so much worse, but in fact they havent made your eyes worse, you just saw what the world is supposed to look like and noticed you havent seen anything without them. as one ages, especially in teen years, their eyes tend to get worse, and they'll need to get stronger prescriptions, whether because of the stress of school or just because your body is growing, it's natural. the eyes should stop, however, by age 18 or 19. ask your optometrist.

Answer 3

The quality of your vision is based on the shape of your eye. A person with perfect vision has perfectly round eyes. As the shape distorts, so does your vision.

Its based entirely on genetics. The only bad thing that comes out of not wearing your glasses would be headaches, nausea, and things like that.

Answer 4

Eyes do NOT get worse as you age. Eye sight does not get worse. The eyeball grows till you are about 8 years of age. That's adult size.

Eyes do change as you age. The lens gets bigger and bigger, like an onion with layer after layer. As it gets bigger, it bends light differently. If you are farsighted, as the lens gets bigger, it gets stronger, so your 'vision' would actually get 'better' as you age as you'd go from a weak eye to a stronger eye as far as bending the light. You'd need less plus power in your Rx.

If nearsighted, you'd get more nearsighted. But you wouldn't get worse. You'd get less plus power, or more minus power. So you'd change from a -3.00 to about a -4.00 over years and years and years. Might end up with a -5.00 by the time you are 60 or so.

But your ability to see 'well' wouldn't change, not from this. Vision is measured by seeing how small an object you can see. The standard is two little lines, a line's width between them. How small (wide) a line can you see when you have two lines next to each other. When does it seem like it's one fuzzy line instead of distinctly two? The 20/20 thing measures this. The E has 5 separate lines. A top one, middle one, bottom one, and the two spaces between them. The width is 1 degree between the 1 degree lines. That makes the letter 5 degrees high.

If I gave you a microscope and said to take a picture of the moon, you'd, well, wonder if things were all OK in my head. Microscopes can't see far away. They make their living seeing really, really, really close. But they're not so good at the far away thing. Telescopes not so good at looking at Red Blood Cells on a slide thing. Which is better? Different tools. neither is better.

A myope is a myope. You have green hair because your father and mother have green hair and it's passed on to you. Genetics also determine skin color, height, weight, habitus, blood type, tissue type,..all that stuff. It's not wrong to be myopic. I wish I had been when I was younger.

Being nearsighted allows one to see close, without working hard (like farsighted people do), so reading is easy. These guys/ladies read a lot. They become lawyers, computer geeky people, doctors, professors, teachers, on occasion politicians, Editors, authors (have you seen Stephen King's glasses?) They can sit and read for hours.

The far sighed person has weak eyes. He has to work to focus his eyes to see far away. To see close by, he has to add more work to the already distance work he's doing. This makes it so hyperopes tend to get sleepy when they read for 20 minutes or so, or mind wanders, or concentration fails, headaches, eye strain aches, tearing... (there's a reason I know this part from EXPERICNCE).

When you first get a new pair of glasses, your eye has to learn to adjust to them. If you've been working hard to see at distance or near, and you put on glasses that take away the need to do that work, the eye thinks it's supposed to work.

So until it 'learns' to relax and let the glasses work, you'll get blurry. (Yes it could be the wrong Rx which means go back and have it checked.)

Some people say that that is the reason glasses are BAD for you, because it makes your muscles weak from not using them, therefore you need to buy my course on eye exercies for 98 dollars and you can throw your glasses away. Don't you think that if that were really true, Ophthalmologists wouldn't be doing LASIK or any of the other refractive surgeries, as it'd be unnecessary. Just to your eye pushups like my DVD says and you can throw those glasses away. (good luck and please call me when you are getting ready to drive somewhere so we can put an alert and clear the streets, keep kids in school, pull over and park till you are past...)

Also progressive lenses where the distance Rx is on the top, then there's a slow increase in positive power, the direction power towards the bottom of the lens through which where reading is done.

No lines like in bifocals or trifocals.

But, as the bottom portion of the spectacles has more +power, it moves light differently than the top. So when you move your glasses, the world will twirl.

Take your glasses off and hold them in front of you. Move them back and forth. You'll see that the image through the lens either moves with you, but faster, or against your movement. Depends on your refraction power and whether it's minus or plus.

If the bottom is more powerful, then it'll move faster. This makes the world seem to rotate when you move your head a little. People get dizzy, get nausea, feel unsteady. This happens every time I change frames, much less the Rx in them.

So give yourself some time to adjust to your new Rx. Within a week or so you should be comfortable.

Answer 5

I think that your eyes get so used to seeing clearly that it appears that they have gotten worse.