Does wearing prescription eyeglasses continuously make your natural eyesight get worse?
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 at
3:19 pm
Normally, I just wear my glasses for night-time driving and seeing distant objects. Some people have recommended to me that I should wear my glasses all the time. But, I’ve heard that wearing them all the time slowly deterioriates your natural vision and, thus, you have to keep on obtaining stronger and stronger glasses as time passes. Is this true?
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If you need them all the time then wear them all the time. It’s not wearing them when you need to that makes them worse. — My husband wears eye glasses and his prescription barely changes enough to notice –
does seem that way.
No, that is not true, eye-sight is largely genetic, but prescription eyewear is not going to make them worse, in fact wearing them all the time if your eye sight is not too bad may actually help your vision.
no it sometimes can actually help to correct you rvision however that occurence is fairly rare
No, that is not true. But if you just need them for distance, you should not wear them for close-up stuff. Your eye doctor would be the one to advise you.
I’ve been wearing glasses since the second grade, and my eyes pretty much stopped changing once I hit adulthood. Other people may have different experiences. Because of the variability in experiences, I don’t think you can draw your conclusion that wearing glasses makes your eyes worse over time.
What does happen as people age is that their ability to focus on close objects/text is diminished. It’s called presbyopia. This is why you see so many people wearing special glasses for reading only.
I don’t know whether it is an absolute truth, but it was so in my case. I was first prescribed eyeglasses when I was 14. I did not wear them continuously, only for classes or movies. My eyesight worsened just a little bit over 10 years (I had to get a slightly stronger pair only once). Three years ago, at the age of 24, however, I started wearing them continuously during the day. Since then I had to upgrade to stronger lenses twice. I am not saying that my eyesight completely deteriorated, but it definetely weakened. Of course, there’s no way of knowing whether it would have hapenned anyway without wearing glasses.
It will appear that your eyesight is worse, but you are actually just getting use to having better vision with your glasses. I just got glasses in early March, and that’s how its been for me. I can see great far away with them, but without it almost feels like its worse.
My girlfriend actually had her glasses help correct much of her vision problems, so who knows, after a while it could make it better!
YES! I started wearing glasses last year for reading and when I’m on the computer but now it seems like I need them all the time!
No, I have had the same prescription for almost 30 years. So I dont’ think it has to do with wearing glasses.
If wearing glasses causes your eyes to get worse, would it not stand to reason, that if you never wore glasses, your eyes would never get worse and you would never need them?.