Comments on: What Happened Before Your Vision Got Worse?

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 23:02:46 +0000

In reply to Audrey. Hi Audrey, and thanks! Hope you're well, and it's good to hear from you. Sending a hug.

By: Audrey

Audrey — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 19:27:45 +0000

What a lovely, compassionate, helpful article Nancy! Thank you for sharing your expertise, thoughtful incites and support! You are truly an inspiration.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 16:31:51 +0000

In reply to Dale. Dale, I'm guessing you and your sister staying out of glasses as children kept you from needing stronger and stronger ones. Even though you were apparently seeing with strain back then (and I so wish you'd known about palming and other Bates practices!), you could have ended up with very strong glasses. I'd encourage you to do without glasses now as much as you can comfortably, using them only when necessary, and continue to learn to relax your hardworking visual system. Thanks for writing. :)

By: Dale

Dale — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 06:58:17 +0000

When I was about fourteen years old I began having blurred vision at all distances during the time of doing my homework. I do not recall any traumatic events, but
a lot of kids were getting glasses, and I was terrified at the thought of needing them.
I never old my parents, and did a good job of hiding my problem. My eyes would burn, and I frequently got styes. Sometimes my vision was so blurred that I could not recognize faces across the street. Some how I managed to pass the yearly vision screenings.
Although my father wore a moderate nearsighted correction, and my mother wore reading glasses with some astigmatism correction, my sister, and I never had an eye exam.
During summer break, my vision problems seemed to go away, but returned when school stated.
After high school graduation the problems again subsided. In my twenties I went back to school, and the blur came back. I found a pair of my fathers old glasses from when he was in his twenties. They were weak minus lenses, with some astigmatism correction. And when no one was home I would wear them for reading, and watching TV. I was amazed at how I could see the house numbers across the street, and how good my eyes felt with them on.
Finally in my thirties I went to an optometrist, and was prescribed reading glasses, which made things worse. After several different optometrists prescribed plus glasses ,some with astigmatism correction, the same blur problem existed. Finally at age thirty six, an optometrist gave me glasses for low myopia, and astigmatism, which finally gave me relief..