Being shortsighted....how worse can it get?? (1 Viewer)

[louy]

I am short sighted by 4.00 and 3.75 Left and Right respectively.

I am thinking of getting laser done in the next couple of months or so

 

[Dr. Oyster]

My eyes keep on getting worse. WTF.

 

[Omie Jay]

i think i need new lenses, probably will go to 3.5ish or 4 (currently on 2.5 and 2.25 in right and left eye, respectively)

 

[dux&src]

I am short sighted by 4.00 and 3.75 Left and Right respectively.

I am thinking of getting laser done in the next couple of months or so

But you are only at 4? I have a friend who is at 5 and yeah my friend is considering laser surgery and i also have a young family relative who is just in her early early teens and is a -4 in both eyes..

Hmmm maybe you are not a young as i think you are. You may be in your 30s if that's the case then i guess your eyesight must have remained relatively stable and such.

 

[dux&src]

My eyes keep on getting worse. WTF.

Wearing glasses with anti-reflective coating helps reduce glare whilst working with screens.

 

[fingerman]

hey i two questions;
1) should i study at night with my contacts on?
2) should i use the lamp on my desk when studying at night? if so should it be directly shining on my work?
thanks

 

[rozymisty]

Most opthamologists (eye doc) wont let you get laser eye surgery until your eye sight has been stable for a few years, as there is no point in getting the correction and then finding out that your sight is going to get worse and you have wasted all that money etc.

 

[addikaye03]

Both my eyes are -1.5, they piss me off a bit, but i wear contacts a fair bit

 

[jet]

I don't know my actual prescription.

I have astigmatism in both eyes + a lazy right eye. It used to point inwards, though glasses moved it to the centre. Then my ophthalmologist made my glasses to strong so my eye over-corrected and now it points slightly outwards.

Fun.

 

[louy]

I am -3.75 and -4.00
I have been wearing contact lenses for years. Daily disposables at the moment. Hopefully not for much longer - Lasik surgery is the way forwards

 

[bio_nut]

My opthamologist spends half his time fixing up those operations that have gone wrong. A lot of people AREN'T suitable, don't believe the advertisements.

 

[oddish]

my friend is shortsighted, she been wearing glasses for around 8 months because she became shortsighted near the end of school, anyways im concerned, well i just wanna know how worse can being shortsighted can get? like i would wave to her far distanced and she couldnt see me (without her glasses) lol. anyways i wondered how blurry can your eyes get for being shortsighted and what are the bad/good(if there's any lol) thing about it, hope its in the right subforum. thanks for the responses..

you could always have someone cut off your penis and throwit out of a moving car while someone else pours chilli powder on the sub of your penis and also being burned by hot coathangers around your throat and face while having omie jay trying to be funnny in the car

 

[oddish]

fuck that would be bad

 

[kaz1]

Yeah, my eyesight is pretty bad. Needed glasses since year 6.

 

[lonely-lass]

I was 10 yrs of age when I first got my glasses. Both eyes were - 5.00. It kept on getting worse, currently my right eye is - 9.00 and left eye is - 10.00. Arrghhh it feels very bad without my glasses/contacts.

 

[Dr. Oyster]

I was 10 yrs of age when I first got my glasses. Both eyes were - 5.00. It kept on getting worse, currently my right eye is - 9.00 and left eye is - 10.00. Arrghhh it feels very bad without my glasses/contacts.

Do your parents wear glasses too?

 

[Zeroes]

My eyes are pretty bad, -3.00 in both.
I think my eyes might be worse than that though, because there's a lot I can't see, even with my glasses/contacts that I could see about a year ago with the same lenses.
Although my optometrist insists I don't need a stronger prescription. :|

 

[emiliieee]

got mine in year 11 and it was heaps expensive.
but im not that bad. i think one eye is 1.00 and the other went up from 0.50 to 75.. dont know exactly though

 

[Njn]

got mine in year 11 and it was heaps expensive.

lolwut, glasses or surgery?

 

[emiliieee]

glasses..
had surgery on it when i was 5.. only coz im allergic to caviar and grew yucky lumps on both eyes