JCC Can Vision Actually Improve Without Wearing Glasses?

I've heard vague anecdotal stories of people who had to start wearing glasses say that wearing them actually made their vision worse than it was before, but when they stopped wearing them their vision improved to the point where they either didn't need glasses anymore or only needed to wear them for reading or such.

Is there any truth to this or is it complete bull****?

 

Bull****.

 

Yes and no, depends on their eye condition. I am nearsighted but only a little and I have poor glare reaction time. I had glasses but they kept getting destroyed at work. So I ditched them. Its been over twelve years without them and I was fine. I learned to compensate cause I have a really good picture memory so I can look at one thing and kinda know what I am looking at even though it may be less light then before. But I have noticed due to age that my glare reaction time is getting worse. My nearsightedness isn't too bad but stuff that is unfamiliar and really small I have trouble with. I guess I am compensating for my vision by using my memory and pattern recognition to make up for it. It might be the way the glasses are ground that is giving people problems. But you never know until you try.

 

The question was, can vision improve without wearing glasses, not whether one's eyes can adjust to being impaired.

 

I've been wearing the same pair of glasses/same prescription since August of 2000. My eyesight has only gotten slightly worse since then. Prior to that, when I got my went to the eye doctor more frequently, my eyesight degraded at a much faster rate. I would be unable to go completely without my glasses to even try to see if my eyesight would improve at all now.

 

Lol. My edit function is not working for my previous post. It's - "Prior to that, when I went to the eye doctor more frequently..."

 

I'm nearsighted in my left eye and have astigmatism in my right. I've worn glasses since I was 11 - all the time, except when I'm in the shower or asleep. In early 2006 I had to have surgery on my left eye to correct "wall eye" strabismus. SInce 2007 my vision has kept flip flopping; one year it's stable and the next my left eye has usually gotten worse while my right eye hasn't changed all that much. I turned 21 in September 2010 and went to the eye doctor three months later. My vision hadn't changed. I went back in February 2012 and my left had worsened again while my right had actually gotten better.

I've actually been thinking for some time of trying to rid myself of my dependence on glasses. I'd wear them out in public, especially when I'm driving, but around the house I'd keep them off. There's a problem, though. I've been spending far too much time on the computer and reading and if I don't kick those habits then not wearing glasses probably wouldn't do any good. I've got an appointment tomorrow so I have to wait and see if I'll need a new prescription (which, given my luck, I probably will. Vision stablizing after age 21? *snort*)

 

no, vision doesn't improve.

however if you have semi bad eye sight and start wearing glasses, when you take them off your eye sight will seem a lot worse than if you'd never put the glasses on in the first place. because you're just getting used to the better quality sight.

 

I understand that, without testing and the fact of having a slight problem I can't really tell if I was better off or not. I relied on my memory so much it gets murky. I can't tell you if it was my memory or if it was my vision that compensated. When you work on similar vehicles all the time everything gets to be familiar.

 

I had above 20/20 vision all my life until the age of 35 when I started to realize that I had to move the menu back further each year until I could not hold the menu out far enough. I went to the optometrist and finally got my glasses that I used for reading only. It did seem to me that the more I wore them, the faster my eyesight seemed to deteriorate. However, much of this also had to do with my increased use of a computer for work = approximately 60% of my job now. There are many factors that relate to deterioration of ones eyesight; genes, computer use, etc.

My uncle started doing eye exercises using a Tibetan Eye Chart; a patterned design and exercises to have you follow the patterns without moving your head. He has been doing these fairly regularly for about 8 months and he says his eyesight is indeed improving. Some will say this is BS, but the truth is I (or they) cannot say this because I have not tried it myself. You are supposed to do these 2-3 times a day. This seems logical as our bodies can improve with exercise, but I have not tried it - not ready to take on this discipline.

 

You just got used to being impaired.

 

This thread.

 

Wear glasses, Ender? Something you'd like to contribute?

 

Of course you're vision can improve without glasses!!!!! By getting lasik eye surgery!!!!!

 

I have no eyes. I see out of my hands.

 

if you pray enough then probably

 

Passive aggressive, right in the kissah!

 

I wonder how bad Jesus's eye sight was?

 

Yes, I do wear glasses. I just can't fathom that someone who has had the problems you've had with eyesight would ask such a question. Or how you think it's a "Senate" thread.

The eye is both like a lense, and muscle. You correct impairment by strengthening that muscle, i.e. that's why it hurts a non-glasses wearer to wear glasses. It strains the eye.

Sorry, if you parents told you you could have perfect eyesight with prayer they lied to you.

 

the only perfect sight is jesus's so if you have him in your heart he can see the inside of your heart really well

im not sure where i was going with this

 

Is that possible?

 

I'm using laymans terms but yeah. I wore glasses as a kid, the problem went away. Only wear them now because I got an infection which scarred the retinal access; as such that'll never heal. But it makes me look well smrt.

 

Dangerous assumptions, Ender. My parents never said such a thing. And if you'd read the OP properly, you would unerstand why I'm asking this question. As for it being tagged "Senate," I wanted to cut down on completely boneheaded comments like the ones I'm seeing from Rogue Ten, I Are the Internets, and Violent Violet Menace above.