Should I get glasses?

Question

I am currently perfect in one eye and negative 2.75 in the other. The bad one is steadily decreasing. It was -2.5 a year ago and -2 two years ago.

Dont keep on saying to ask my optrician. Ive asked three and two have said no and 1 has said yes. Another thing that makes me unsure is that they are selling glasses. If its in between, they will convince me to get glasses.

Answer 1

Ask your eye doctor, but i think glasses will be good because your eyes will be less tired (as you probably use your good eye more, which makes seeing difficult) and stop your bad eye from getting worse. It is also better to have both eyes the same than one good and one bad.

Answer 2

I have -.75 in my right and -2.00 with astigmatism in my left eye. I just got glasses a week ago and although I *thought* my vision was fine before, glasses have made everything much more crisp and less "work" to see. I also feel that I have better depth perception because both of my eyes are seeing more or less the same thing. It wouldn't hurt to try it out. If you don't like the way you see with glasses, get some frames that you wouldn't mind having as sunglasses and get the lenses switched out!

I'm not sure how old you are, but I'm 22 and I'm pretty sure my vision has been the same for a while. I just never did anything about it until now.

PS - I'm getting contacts tomorrow because I don't really like wearing glasses, but I enjoy the way I am seeing enough to deal with contact lenses!

Answer 3

Your age is going to make a big difference to this question.

If you are much over 40, you are likely to be using your -ve eye for reading, and glasses might just get in your way.
(Some people acclimatise to using one eye for distance and one for reading, if their Rx naturally falls that way)

And with that much difference between the two eyes (anisometropia), while some people would enjoy better binocular vision with glasses, some would find the different magnifications disturbing. Wearing one contact lens instead of going for glasses would largely overcome this.

And if you are over about 16, you are not at risk of wrecking your binocular vision or developing a lazy eye by *not* using glasses.

Myopic change on that scale isn't enough to cause particular alarm as yet. A continued myopic shift in a mature adult can be an early indicator of nuclear sclerotic cataract, but that doesn't require early intervention, and it can be watched and assessed.

Optometrist, retired.

Answer 4

Well I have glasses on my Avatar b/c I put on studying glasses for the pc and for studying and after the vacations I'm going to get an examination and spot in which my eyes stand for truly ones b/c I'm worn out of squinting. lol!

Answer 5

It's up to you and how comfortable you are.

Many people try and duplicate your situation to achieve "mono-vision." The use of one eye for distance vision and the other eye for near vision. This allows middle age and older people to avoid using reading glasses. Mono-vision is accomplished with contact lenses or after cataract surgery. You've done it naturally.

Answer 6

If you're not comfortable with your vision, then by all means get glasses! They make some great frames with light lenses nowadays. You'd probably love them. I say "Go for it !" :P

Answer 7

If you have to ask..... then yes. Go get yourself that exam and start checking out some sweet reading glasses!

Answer 8

Just get a contact lens for that one bad eye--you probably should correct the eye so that ti won't go lazy on you. Though it probably wouldn't do that.

Answer 9

Get an eye exam, your doc will tell you what you need.

Answer 10

It would be up to your eye doctor.