Comments on: Do You NEED Your Glasses? https://www.iblindness.org/2418/do-you-need-your-glasses/ Improve Your Eyesight and Ditch Your Glasses Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:17:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Nancy https://www.iblindness.org/2418/do-you-need-your-glasses/#comment-31545 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:17:24 +0000 http://www.iblindness.org/?p=2418#comment-31545 In reply to Dale.

Dale, I’m glad you found a comfortable prescription that lets you do what you need to do. And I’d challenge you that you “need” the correction (like you need oxygen 🙂 ) and to have it as a goal to reduce and eventually eliminate it. Here’s something I wrote about astigmatism to give you a few thoughts: https://www.iblindness.org/1051/yes-but-i-have-astigmatism/

]]> By: Dale https://www.iblindness.org/2418/do-you-need-your-glasses/#comment-31542 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 07:22:22 +0000 http://www.iblindness.org/?p=2418#comment-31542 At this point in my life, YES, I do need them.
After all of the prescriptions that I have had, and having gone through behavioral vision training, I am happy to be wearing glasses that give me 20/20 vision. They are not a strong prescription, as I have previously needed, but I do need to wear them constantly due to astigmatism.
They are minus lenses prescribed as a spherical equivalent, instead of an astigmatism cylinder lense. With the behavioral optometrist, I was able to eliminate all of my myopia, but nothing more can be done about the astigmatism, except the glasses.
Without them my vision is 20/80, and if doing a lot of close work, worse than 20/100. Near vision is impossible without them.

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