Has anyone ever tried using pinhole eyeglasses to prevent their eyesight from worsening? Do they really work?

Question

Do they really work in preventing eyesight deterioration for people who are dependent on lenses to see? Is there really a conspiracy with optometrist/optical groups who make their money selling people glasses to downplay the usefulness of pinhole eyeglasses? I'm just curious.

Answer 1

That is really paranoid. They are the equivalent of a lens and a lens is what is in your glasses, so no they do not change your eye's deterioration.

If you want pinhole glasses get some and try them. I am sure your appearance would be the delight of your friends.

Answer 2

There are a number of ways that we use to see better. One way is to find out that your eyeball has a certain shape or length or is really strong(nearsighted), or really weak (farsighted) or there's astigmatism or?

One of the ways we've learned about is to neutralize the eyeball's optics so that the image formed on the retina is clear. These devices are called glasses or spectacles or contacts. We even do surgery to change the shape of the cornea so that as a lens it will focus light better on the retina and the person can "see".

If you take a lens, any lens, and go to the middle of the lens so that no light gets through but just the center, you have a "window". Just like the window in your house. The outer edge or surface is parallel with the inner surface. Light goes straight through, no deviation at all. So when people squint to see better, or look through a hole that they make with their fingers, or look through a pinhole in a piece of paper, or get con'd into buying pinhole glasses, that's what they're doing...looking through a limiting barrier.

Same for eye exercises. Send me money, I'll send you an entire course on eye exercises so you can throw away your glasses, you can see up close again and won't need your readers, you can get your pilot's license. Oh, and I've got some EYE vitamins too!

Most eye docs want their patients to see better. It's not some sort of conspiracy against the natural remedy people to make money (well the holistic medicine pinhole glasses and vitamins and eye exercise scam is..but you're not supposed to know that..).

Answer 3

Pinhole glasses are a scam. The FDA banned their import a few years ago but now some US based scammers are in the business. The pinhole glasses sellers are making money selling a useless gizmo to the gullible public.

You will see sort of clearly with them on but vision will be dim especially in low light and the periphery will be obscured. They will not make you not need glasses when you take them off and will not prevent your eyes from getting worse. So your choice is wearing your regular glasses to see clearly in dim or bright light and seeing well to the side or wearing pinhole glasses to see sort of clearly in bright light only and not so well at all to the side.

Answer 4

Oh. Brother. All the pinhole does is cut the light down to the point that there is no refractive error from deviated light. You can look up "pinhole glasses" online and learn how they work. They do not keep any prescription from getting worse nor do they improve anyone's vision by using them. Plus, they look sooooooo very stupid who would want to wear these things!?! There is no conspiricy, people who know how the eye's visual system works know that these just simply do not make the differences that the poeple who sell them make claims of. It is a gimmick. I wear my glasses, not becuase I am "dependent" on them, but because my lenses are what I need to see correctly because of how my eye is shaped. Pinhole glasses would let me see instead of my RX glasses becuase of the physics involved, but get real! I would not be cause ght DEAD with those things! LOL! O^O

Answer 5

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