Does wearing glasses make your eye sight worse and even more dependent on a heavier prescription?

Question

So I have to get glasses to see far away things like the chalkboard and such, but everything else is good. However I am worried that once I get glasses, my eyes will get worse and I'll always need the glasses not only when I need to copy something down but soon everything else. I'm also worried then I'll have to keep getting stronger prescriptions, and my eyes will be so screwed up and in ten years my glasses that I don't have yet will be really strong and my eyesight will be like 60/80. Is getting glasses going to make my eyes even worse over time?
Is there as big a risk with a weaker prescription, or it's all the same once you get glasses?

Answer 1

"Does wearing glasses make your eye sight worse "

Just about always, no.
There's an excepton: I'll come to it.

The two most common cases where people get first glasses,
teenagers going short-sighted and 40+ folk needing reading glasses both involve processes in the eyes which have been going on for some time, and would continue to go on *whether or not glasses were given*. This makes it almost inevitable that, after the first glasses, the next glasses will need to be stronger glasses of the same type, six months to two years down the line.

"Struggling on without glasses" whether for distance or reading is just an awful strategy.

The exception: recent studies have suggested that a certain proportion of the population are prone to make themselves more short-sighted by excessive closework at too short a range. With the majority it appears not to matter: they will either never go short-sighted, or go short-sighted at a rate independent of their close-vision habits.
So here, unless binocular vision considerations overrule, removing weak short-sighted glasses for closework is a good idea and may, to a degree, slow the rate of short-sighted change.
Good posture, a relatively long working-distance, and periodically re-establishing distance focus are all items of similar importance in such cases.

There are more intensive approaches in this area involving the use of "prism-controlled bifocals" but they are not that commonly employed.

Optometrist, retired.

Answer 2

I believe glasses can make some of us have worse vision over time. I have yet to read a
study that disagrees with this, only opinions. Opinions are worth nothing to me.
Having wore glasses for over 30 years, and 7 prescriptions. The only time my eyes stabilized
was after a year of not getting a new prescription, despite the need.

Answer 3

Yes but i think only in some cases, because i I've had glasses for like 4 months and now when i take them off i cant see things that are far away like i used to before wearing them, so for me it does make eyes worse.

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I wore my glasses all day at work and when driving home I could not read numberplates. This wasn't just "you got used to everything looking sharper so now you think it's gone blurry by comparison" - I COULD NOT read the numberplates which usually I could. So there. I can't understand how you can deny the common sense that if you don't use something, it will get more difficult.

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I watched a movie on my laptop last night, and it was great, now I can barely read the screen, so now I have to wear my reading glasses. Its a resounding YES. My eye sight sucks now. My brain got stupid fat and lazy, i'll go workout now so don't worry about me. Im too lazy to do eye exercise though

Answer 9

To the question, "Does wearing glasses make your eye sight worse?"-- No. It does not. You just become accustomed to the sharper vision and notice blurry vision. Will you vision get worse and require a stronger prescription? Likely, as you eye will continue to grow until you get into your 20s, independent of wearing glasses.

If your eyes do continue to grow and you require a stronger prescription, you will probably be more dependent on that stronger prescription since your uncorrected vision will be worse. *But*, this isn't because of a choice to wear glasses now.

This is a controversial topic, as it makes sense that wearing glasses while not changing behaviors that led to becoming nearsighted can lead to the eye growing even more nearsighted. However, studies that have attempted to show this cause and effect have come up empty.

By the way, since you mention "60/80"-- visual acuity in the US is measured as "20/something." The "something" is the distance (in feet) that an "average normal" eye can be from something that you can only resolve at 20 feet. So, "20/80" is a little worse than normal, as a normal eye can be 80 feet from the eye chart and read the letters you can just make out at 20 feet. "20/15" is better than normal.

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Answer 11

it will not make your eye sight worse, but it might make your eyes too dependant on the glasses. and then you might have some problems seeing when you have them off.