Can wearing cheap eyeglasses hurt your eyes?

Question

I buy the 99 cent reading glasses,and I'm up to 3.00 power.It's getting to where I can't do anything up close without them.Am I damaging my eyes?

Answer 1

Damaging in the sense of cause long-term harm, no.

Causing headaches or fatigue because they are less than ideal, quite possibly, but with no permanent harm done.

If they cause you to skip regular eye examinations then *indirectly* they can lead to great harm, potentially delaying the diagnosis of glaucoma and other eye conditions that could have been treated.

+3.00 would be normal for a 65-year-old doing quite fine work
and be too close-focussed for a computer or benchwork with the same person. They'd need about a +1.75 or +2.00 to give that longer range.
If you're appreciably younger than that, there's a fair chance you have a +ve distance Rx too which would make driving more comfortable, if not necessarily sharper.

Answer 2

7yearold in Birmingham, Alabama who has been taken to the hospital after falling from the 5th floor balcony of his apartment building.

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an 11yearold in Greer, South Carolina who was hospitalized after he fell more than 140 feet down a well on the back porch of a vacant home.

Answer 3

Don't know if my opinion is worth anything or not, but I would say the glasses are certainly not helping your eyes. See an ophthalmologist or optometrist for an examination.

Answer 4

According to my eye doctor no..Unless you have one eye really more damaged in sight than the other they are almost the same.

Answer 5

You could be, I suggest you get your eyes checked out by an eye doctor, just to be safe.