Why do my eyes have different visions??
Question: (These are guesses)
My right eye's vision is about 20/100
My left eye's vision is about 20/30.
However my right eye is nearsighted, but my left eye isn't. (I struggle a bit using my left eye to read a book)
What the heck is going on??
Answers: My vision is the same as yours--I'm farsighted in my left eye and nearsighted in my right eye. That's just how I was born.. it's not a big deal. I just wear one contact for my right eye beacuse I have nearly perfect vision on my left.
You sound like me. I have a lazy eye. They can treat it if you go to an optometrist for it.
My eyes are drastically different too. However, I have a very mild strabismus (eye turn) One eye is stronger than the other and therefore, I have different prescriptions in both eyes.
You might want to ask your eye doctor to check to see if you have it. All they do to check for it is have you stare at a pen and then cover your eye and then switch back and forth alternately covering both eyes. Some doctors will miss the eye turn if it is mild. But, a good and observant doctor will spot it.
This is only one possibility. I am sure there are other reasons for different prescriptions - best way is to ask your eye care professional.
This condition is called Amblyopia...where the vision in the eyes is more than two lines difference from the eye chart letters.
In young children, eye doctors can treat this with patching to make the weaker eye, in your case your right eye, work harder to try to improve the vision. Unfortunately, this treatment only works very well to the age of 10 or so.
It is actually quite common and when caught early in childhood, there have been good treatment results.
To correct your vision, you would need to be corrected nearsighted in your right eye and farsighted in your left eye...or...learn to use monovision...use your right eye for reading and your left eye for distance. To learn this, you would need to talk with your eye doctor.
That is how you are made. Nothing in the human body is symmetrical, we just like to think that it is. Why we think htis, I have no idea, but it is true! So, one eye is made differently than another, you are in the majority!
If you don't mind, would you write me back and let me know what your vision is when you are wearing the right correction. If you are wearing your glasses, what is the vision in each eye? I don't really need your correction, e.g. -1.25 or that stuff, just your vision (the 20/20 or 20/60 or? with your glasses ON).
When you find you are holding you book too close or needlework that is nearsightedness ( myopia )
This is because the distant items are blurry thus unable to see clearly
Nearsightedness is caused when the eyeball is shorter than normal.
Also according to your question it says you are struggling to see straight that may be another sign
I hope you are planning to get your eyes checked bring this up with the doctor like you are doing here.
You might need glasses or contact lenses.
My sister had -3.00 in her right and perfect vision in her left. I don't know if it's lazy eye or now, but her left eye is catching up.
RE: 20/100 (6/30), LE:20/30 (6/9) .. Are these values before or after correction? Assuming it's unaided vision, I estimate this difference in power to be about 1D as it's a 4 line difference (rough guide). 1D difference (this may not be accurate, if u are far sighted in the left eye and have accomodated during the eye test) is not large enough to be classified a clinically significant anisometropia(difference in refractive power), however, it may still cause bino-related problems like suppression and amblyopia(lazy eye). However, I would like to clarify, this is may NOT be ambloypia as yet.. (unless your optometrist says so). See your optometrist for a Binocular Vision Assessment.
Slight differences in refractive power are common due to the nature vs nurture development of the eyes from young. What you can do is to get glasses to fully correct both eyes, so that they see equally well. (if they do not, even after correction, u have amblyopia.. unless u're under 12.. nothing much can be done). If the refractive power between both eyes are too high, contact lenses are an option to prevent prismatic effects due to spectacle correction.
My right eye's vision is about 20/100
My left eye's vision is about 20/30.
However my right eye is nearsighted, but my left eye isn't. (I struggle a bit using my left eye to read a book)
What the heck is going on??
Answers: My vision is the same as yours--I'm farsighted in my left eye and nearsighted in my right eye. That's just how I was born.. it's not a big deal. I just wear one contact for my right eye beacuse I have nearly perfect vision on my left.
You sound like me. I have a lazy eye. They can treat it if you go to an optometrist for it.
My eyes are drastically different too. However, I have a very mild strabismus (eye turn) One eye is stronger than the other and therefore, I have different prescriptions in both eyes.
You might want to ask your eye doctor to check to see if you have it. All they do to check for it is have you stare at a pen and then cover your eye and then switch back and forth alternately covering both eyes. Some doctors will miss the eye turn if it is mild. But, a good and observant doctor will spot it.
This is only one possibility. I am sure there are other reasons for different prescriptions - best way is to ask your eye care professional.
This condition is called Amblyopia...where the vision in the eyes is more than two lines difference from the eye chart letters.
In young children, eye doctors can treat this with patching to make the weaker eye, in your case your right eye, work harder to try to improve the vision. Unfortunately, this treatment only works very well to the age of 10 or so.
It is actually quite common and when caught early in childhood, there have been good treatment results.
To correct your vision, you would need to be corrected nearsighted in your right eye and farsighted in your left eye...or...learn to use monovision...use your right eye for reading and your left eye for distance. To learn this, you would need to talk with your eye doctor.
That is how you are made. Nothing in the human body is symmetrical, we just like to think that it is. Why we think htis, I have no idea, but it is true! So, one eye is made differently than another, you are in the majority!
If you don't mind, would you write me back and let me know what your vision is when you are wearing the right correction. If you are wearing your glasses, what is the vision in each eye? I don't really need your correction, e.g. -1.25 or that stuff, just your vision (the 20/20 or 20/60 or? with your glasses ON).
When you find you are holding you book too close or needlework that is nearsightedness ( myopia )
This is because the distant items are blurry thus unable to see clearly
Nearsightedness is caused when the eyeball is shorter than normal.
Also according to your question it says you are struggling to see straight that may be another sign
I hope you are planning to get your eyes checked bring this up with the doctor like you are doing here.
You might need glasses or contact lenses.
My sister had -3.00 in her right and perfect vision in her left. I don't know if it's lazy eye or now, but her left eye is catching up.
RE: 20/100 (6/30), LE:20/30 (6/9) .. Are these values before or after correction? Assuming it's unaided vision, I estimate this difference in power to be about 1D as it's a 4 line difference (rough guide). 1D difference (this may not be accurate, if u are far sighted in the left eye and have accomodated during the eye test) is not large enough to be classified a clinically significant anisometropia(difference in refractive power), however, it may still cause bino-related problems like suppression and amblyopia(lazy eye). However, I would like to clarify, this is may NOT be ambloypia as yet.. (unless your optometrist says so). See your optometrist for a Binocular Vision Assessment.
Slight differences in refractive power are common due to the nature vs nurture development of the eyes from young. What you can do is to get glasses to fully correct both eyes, so that they see equally well. (if they do not, even after correction, u have amblyopia.. unless u're under 12.. nothing much can be done). If the refractive power between both eyes are too high, contact lenses are an option to prevent prismatic effects due to spectacle correction.
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