Do reading glasses damage the sight even further?

Question

When I have approached my fifties I noticed blurred vision when reading, so the optician prescribed me glasses, after two years I had another check up of my eyes and the optician prescribed new glasses even if I was still reading perfectly well with the old ones. Last week I lost my glasses so I went back to my optician who said it was time for another ckeck up and prescribed me new glasses, I paid in total #274 pounds including the fees for checking up. I think this is a great business! a friend of mine said glasses weaken your eyes even further, is this true? on the other hand I do need my glasses for reading! is it better not to wear them and force your eyes even if blurred? thanks for opinion.

Answer 1

Spectacles do not weaken your eyes... that's an old wives' tale.

Just about everybody will need reading glasses at some stage of life.

An important point to consider is if you drive without glasses, and knowing you need them, your insurance will not pay out in event of accident and you will be liable (negligence) -not worth the risk.

Unfortunately you have to buy glasses if you need 'em. Tough but true.

Answer 2

Needing reading glasses isn't evidence of damage in the first place, strictly speaking.
The eyes have a maximum ability to change focus for near objects at around the age of eight, and it falls off gradually from then.
For most people this drop, caused by the lens of the eye continuing to grow throughout your life, means that reading glasses are needed somewhere between forty and fifty, if the distance vision is normal. There's some definite ethnic variation.
But because this process continues as it always has, the initial reading glass Rx will be out-of-date within a couple of years, whether it was worn or not (struggling on without glasses isn't harmful either, just tiring!)
If there's not much difference between the two eyes ready-made readers can offer cheap back up glasses at the least.
But, if they're not bifocal or varifocal lenses, there is no need to pay that sort of money for even individually made spectacles, though many designer frames can go over £300 (Especially rimless designs, which I would not recommend for reading glasses: too fragile to be good with all that handling)

Answer 3

The condition is called presbyopia, the lens in the eye becomes more and more ridged and the muscles have a hard time making it the shape it needs to be for near vision. Putting lenses in front of your eyes do not have not effect on your eye health, other wise, they do not weaken your eyes. You can be stoic and not wear your glasses...but you will eventually reach an age where the lens in the eye will not change shape at all... then you will be stuck for help to read. Make life easy on yourself and wear your glasses and stop the headaches you must be having from straining your eye muscles.
It is part of the aging process...... I have given this lecture many time at my work, but NOW I am having much of the same symptoms... It is a hard pill to swallow, but we all age.

Answer 4

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