Is it possible for my eyesight to get better??
Question: I'm 13 years old and my eyes are -5 and getting worse. Is it possible they might get better over the next couple years? (please explain why or why not.)
Answers: Your eyes have certain physical characteristics, just like you. You may be tall or small. Have blond or red or brown or black hair. You may have green skin or purple skin or be spotted like a cat. Those are physical characteristics. Your eyes have the same genetic disposition.
You may have 'normal' eyes. This means that you are focused clearly at a distance...optical infinity. ... far away.
When people like this get to be about 40 or so, the lens in the eye is either to large, or too hard, or whatever...they cannot bend the lens and see close. So they have to get some help. They get 'readers'. Are their eyes worse? No. Just bigger lenses.
There are tools for looking at the stars....telescopes. And there are tools to look at bacteria....microscopes. One has a focal distance in lightyears, the other in microns. Which is better? depends on what you're looking at.
If you are myopic...sort of microscope...you have a short focal distance. Your eyes are so strong that you are focused close to your eyes. In your case, a fifth of a meter. The minus 5 means that your eyes have +5.00 too much power and you are focused a 1/5 of a meter in front of you. Further than that and it's a blur.
If you needed a -4,00, that would mean you are +4.00 too powerfull, and are already focused at 1/4 of a meter in front of you.
-3.00 a third of a meter
-2.00, half a meter
-1.00 a meter
-0.50 2 meters
P=1/d where the d is in meters.
At 13 and going through all that stuff, hormone fluctuations will change your focal point a little, each month. Not so much that you'll need new glasses, but you'll notice a slight change.
But as you age, your lens will get bigger...like an onion...layer after layer. By the time you are 40-50, you too will need 'readers'. But since you are already focused at a fifth of a meter in front of you, you might just take off your glasses or read over your glasses instead of through them.
By then, I'd bet you have already gotten some sort of refractive surgery and moved that focal point from a 5th of a meter out to distance so you don't have to wear glasses for distance anymore. A lot of people do this now. Some get intracorneal implants which are very nice. Some do LASEK....all of them work to 'weaken' the focus strength of your eye and move the focal distance from too near....to optical infinity or far. Then you can drive, see the clock across the room or at night when you want to know what time it is after going potty so you know if you can sleep more, or better get that paper finished..., watch TV, movies....without your glasses Rx.
Normally you'll stay within a few diopters of your regular Rx. So if you are a -5.00 now, you'll probably stay near that and won't go over about a -7.00 if you ever reach that level. But as your lens ages, it gets stronger, so you might.
As pathological myopia is pretty rare, the chance of getting worse quickly is fairly remote. I'd not worry about that. And by now, someone would have taken a look at the back of your eyes and told you about that diagnosis and its ramifications.
One more thing. People that are myopic get retinal problems. So once a year or so, see a retina specialist and make sure you don't have any tears. It's only 3% of myopes over 6 diopters that get tears, which means 97% don't. But if you see lots of NEW floaters, or haze, or smoke, or cobwebs or spider webs in an eye, go see the retina guy. Light flashes are signs of pulling on your retina.
hi:
It is said that good exercise and nutrition can have a good effect on eye sight.
Exercises: I dont have much to offer, as I am not professionally trained
Nutrition: Antioxidant vitamins C, E, beta-carotene, and zinc provides the first effective treatment for slowing the disease's progression. - these are at their best when you eat them in the form of SPROUTS ... do some research, get some seeds and grains and experiment and make SPROUTS and include plently of fresh fruits and veggies in ur diet.. and increase them in your diet and slowly reduce fast foods and high calorie junk food... you should positively see some results
best wishes
yes, its possible. nutrition will not generally have any affect on worsening myopia, which is what it sounds like you're talking about.
but yes, it is possible for nearsighted people to become less nearsighted. in fact YOU PROBABLY WILL! ...in your late 30's. most myopes do.
for *most* nearsighted people, then spend their teens getting progressively more nearsighted. but its still technically possible for you to get less nearsighted at some point...
It seems very unlikely but make sure you are having a healthy diet, some people's eyesight get affected by lack of some vitamins and mineral. But don't get confused, vitamins and minerals and rest keep a healthy eyeseight but they don't imporve vision if yours is already bad due to other problems not related to lack of nutrients. (By the way eating carrots don't improve vision, that's an urband legend created by the UK air force during WW2 to make German pilots think the UK pilots were better spoting enemy planes).
If your eyesight is getting worst then you need professional assistance. Some genetic conditions or illness might be resposible.
It's very unlikely that time will get it any better if you do nothing about it. But now is a good time to see a doctor; waiting is not a good idea.
Answers: Your eyes have certain physical characteristics, just like you. You may be tall or small. Have blond or red or brown or black hair. You may have green skin or purple skin or be spotted like a cat. Those are physical characteristics. Your eyes have the same genetic disposition.
You may have 'normal' eyes. This means that you are focused clearly at a distance...optical infinity. ... far away.
When people like this get to be about 40 or so, the lens in the eye is either to large, or too hard, or whatever...they cannot bend the lens and see close. So they have to get some help. They get 'readers'. Are their eyes worse? No. Just bigger lenses.
There are tools for looking at the stars....telescopes. And there are tools to look at bacteria....microscopes. One has a focal distance in lightyears, the other in microns. Which is better? depends on what you're looking at.
If you are myopic...sort of microscope...you have a short focal distance. Your eyes are so strong that you are focused close to your eyes. In your case, a fifth of a meter. The minus 5 means that your eyes have +5.00 too much power and you are focused a 1/5 of a meter in front of you. Further than that and it's a blur.
If you needed a -4,00, that would mean you are +4.00 too powerfull, and are already focused at 1/4 of a meter in front of you.
-3.00 a third of a meter
-2.00, half a meter
-1.00 a meter
-0.50 2 meters
P=1/d where the d is in meters.
At 13 and going through all that stuff, hormone fluctuations will change your focal point a little, each month. Not so much that you'll need new glasses, but you'll notice a slight change.
But as you age, your lens will get bigger...like an onion...layer after layer. By the time you are 40-50, you too will need 'readers'. But since you are already focused at a fifth of a meter in front of you, you might just take off your glasses or read over your glasses instead of through them.
By then, I'd bet you have already gotten some sort of refractive surgery and moved that focal point from a 5th of a meter out to distance so you don't have to wear glasses for distance anymore. A lot of people do this now. Some get intracorneal implants which are very nice. Some do LASEK....all of them work to 'weaken' the focus strength of your eye and move the focal distance from too near....to optical infinity or far. Then you can drive, see the clock across the room or at night when you want to know what time it is after going potty so you know if you can sleep more, or better get that paper finished..., watch TV, movies....without your glasses Rx.
Normally you'll stay within a few diopters of your regular Rx. So if you are a -5.00 now, you'll probably stay near that and won't go over about a -7.00 if you ever reach that level. But as your lens ages, it gets stronger, so you might.
As pathological myopia is pretty rare, the chance of getting worse quickly is fairly remote. I'd not worry about that. And by now, someone would have taken a look at the back of your eyes and told you about that diagnosis and its ramifications.
One more thing. People that are myopic get retinal problems. So once a year or so, see a retina specialist and make sure you don't have any tears. It's only 3% of myopes over 6 diopters that get tears, which means 97% don't. But if you see lots of NEW floaters, or haze, or smoke, or cobwebs or spider webs in an eye, go see the retina guy. Light flashes are signs of pulling on your retina.
hi:
It is said that good exercise and nutrition can have a good effect on eye sight.
Exercises: I dont have much to offer, as I am not professionally trained
Nutrition: Antioxidant vitamins C, E, beta-carotene, and zinc provides the first effective treatment for slowing the disease's progression. - these are at their best when you eat them in the form of SPROUTS ... do some research, get some seeds and grains and experiment and make SPROUTS and include plently of fresh fruits and veggies in ur diet.. and increase them in your diet and slowly reduce fast foods and high calorie junk food... you should positively see some results
best wishes
yes, its possible. nutrition will not generally have any affect on worsening myopia, which is what it sounds like you're talking about.
but yes, it is possible for nearsighted people to become less nearsighted. in fact YOU PROBABLY WILL! ...in your late 30's. most myopes do.
for *most* nearsighted people, then spend their teens getting progressively more nearsighted. but its still technically possible for you to get less nearsighted at some point...
It seems very unlikely but make sure you are having a healthy diet, some people's eyesight get affected by lack of some vitamins and mineral. But don't get confused, vitamins and minerals and rest keep a healthy eyeseight but they don't imporve vision if yours is already bad due to other problems not related to lack of nutrients. (By the way eating carrots don't improve vision, that's an urband legend created by the UK air force during WW2 to make German pilots think the UK pilots were better spoting enemy planes).
If your eyesight is getting worst then you need professional assistance. Some genetic conditions or illness might be resposible.
It's very unlikely that time will get it any better if you do nothing about it. But now is a good time to see a doctor; waiting is not a good idea.
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