I’m just starting out on my eyesight improvement journey and one issue I’ve run into is how to update my glasses as my eyesight improves.

I have high myopia and recently diagnosed astigmatism. I’ve read this sub’s resources and megathread, and I’ve been reading everyone’s experiences. I’ve begun doing the exercises, lifestyle changes, and measuring and tracking my progress. One of the things I’m struggling with is lowering my prescription. I’m confused how you guys are updating your glasses/lenses so often. Where do you buy affordable frames and/or lenses? For me, it costs upwards of $100 for new lenses at local and online stores, even if I use the same frames. Some websites sell cheap frames but they don’t have an option to add your prescription. How are you guys getting your lenses updated? I don’t mind getting the most bare-bones and cheap lenses as long as they can be easily replaced.

Went through stress one night and got up seeing blurry text. It’s been two months now no improvement. What happened?

- I don't know what Happened to my Eyes.

- SomeThing and Some text seems cross to me

- For example

This is straight line ( __ )

Some it looks like this ( / )

Sometimes it looks like this ( \ )

And sometimes also looks like staright line

- why this happenes to me?

I’ve needed glasses since I was in 3rd grade. My vision progressively got worse until I was in college and kind of plateaued from there. For the last few years I’ve been -4.75 and -4.00. Last year my left eye was -4.50 and right was -4.00. My glasses are an older pair that are both -4.00. I have Graves’ disease and unfortunately am showing signs of thyroid eye disease (TED.)

Symptoms are: dry, gritty, watery, red, bulging eyes.

At this time I have dry eye and some eyelid retraction on my left eye. My mri showed some mild enlargement of the superior rectus muscle on the left. Im trying my best to use eyedrops and cooling masks and all of the things to help my eyes.

One thing I’ve noticed is that I see really well with my glasses. Personally I don’t like how I look in them so I never really wore them unless I was getting ready for bed. I take my glasses off to be on my phone. I also have slight astigmatism on my left eye but I wasn’t corrected for it so I want to know if I can do anything to avoid correction for that as well.

Are glasses easier in terms of “training” the eyes? I’ve been wearing contacts everyday since I was in 6th grade. I’m 34.

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Hi everyone,

I'm 13 years old, and my old glasses prescription was -4.50. I recently went to a different eye doctor, and they said my prescription is now -5.50.

The first doctor only had me sit in a chair and read a normal eye chart.

The second doctor had me look through a machine with lenses and read an eye chart that was reflected in a mirror. I think the chart was on the mirror so it looked farther away.

I've always worn my glasses whenever I use my phone, so I'm worried.

My questions are:

- Is it possible the second doctor was just more accurate?

- Is using a mirror during an eye exam normal?

- Can myopia naturally increase from -4.50 to -5.50 at age 13 even if I wear my glasses?

- Does wearing glasses while using my phone make my eyesight worse?

I'd really appreciate any advice or similar experiences. Thanks!

I have been looking through a lot of posts and comments here. And going through a lot of resources like Todd Becker's video on Myopia.

I was just wondering if any of you or any post/ thread you know where there has been some success with any method. I see a lot of people claiming improvements up to 1dpt. But there's no update after that. Ideally, it has some real evidence like optometrist's report or sth.

Hey. I have the following prescription:

Left: -1 SPH -2.25 CYL 125 AX

Right: -1 SPH -2.5 CYL 45 AX

I want to work with my astigmatism first as it's getting annoying. The fact that's it's almost symmetrical make me think this indeed can be related to bad habits. All my family members have perfect eyesight. And I've had relatively normal eyesight before few years ago - that's when I ordered glasses, my astigmatism seems to worsen. I tried to minimize glasses usage all this time. I currently don't have an option to order pair without cylinder, so I'll just continue to minimize glasses usage.

I've read Forrest Eye Scan and as far as I understand it its falling into symmetrical oblique astigmatism category. I have a few questions for people who practiced Forrest method:

1. What eyes moving angle should I practice? Since both eyes have almost symmetrical angle, I'm worried about straining one angle in one eye while practicing another.

2. What speed movements should be? And it's like one side-center-another side and repeat? Or center-one side multiple times then center-another side multiple times and repeat?

3. What should I be aware of in terms of habits? As far as I understand this type of astigmatism can be caused by constant head tilt. Is it like when I'm reading my nose is pointing lower to text line, so my eyes need to look higher?

Thanks for your help a lot.

Hello!

I'm in my late teens, and I'm looking for something to slow down my nearsightedness + farsightedness. My Nearsightedness is far worse than my farsightedness. I think i'm at -8 in one eye, and -7.50 in the other, but after doing an examination in a special clinic, they said I'm much closer to a -9 actually. :(

I've been using lenses for years, and glasses when I'm at home. My eyesight is HORRIBLE, to the point that I cried when I got my newest pair around a year ago (they were super thick and made my eyes look like two dots :=C ).

I'm thinking of doing an eye operation in a few years because having to wear glasses or lenses just for something as basic as seeing the world is getting tiresome. When I booked an appointment at the clinic I mentioned earlier, they recommended a special operation for me (since my eyeballs are apparently the perfect size, and they need to be longer for LASIK or something).

But to do this operation, they need my eyesight to be stable (not increase every year). I would love convenient (as well as inconvenient) ways to stabilize my eyesight, so that I can finally be able to do this operation.

I'm literally even ready to do those stupid (and very fake-looking) eye exercises that my mom sends me every day.

Quick side note: A few days ago, I started wearing misight lenses, but I'm not sure if they'll help bc while my optometrist recommended them, I recently found out that they're basically for kids???

I would love some help (and advice) on this!

My daughter is 12 years old. We have seen a few doctors that aren't sure how to proceed.

My daughter has:

• Accommodative insufficiency

• Alternating exotropia(left eye glass out with 45 diopter)

• horizonal Binocular Vision Disorder/Functional Vergence Dysfunction(only when she brings in the left eye to be straight and only in the distance)

• Fusion with defective stereopsis

With 45 prism diopter intermittent large-angle exotropia with a high frequency of manifestation and a right eye fixation preference.

We are on the waiting list for a surgical consultation in a few months.

What else can I do to help my daughter while we wait for a consultation with the surgeon. The consultation is still six months away. Should I try to find a different surgeon to get in sooner?

Personally i only did eye exercises very passively and on and off since around 15 up to 25 years old which kept my eyesight minimally progressing over 10 years. I also wore weaker glasses on the computer. It did go down 0.25 one time.

This year i’ve taken up sunning and palming in hopes as well now that my eyesight is stable as an adult , my prescription will go down. I also am doing the 20-20-20 rule on devices

I also just added nightshift modeto my phone to help me. And finally I also am trying to incorporate more yawning into the day as that keeps eyes moist

. Also my prescription is -5.75 & -7.25. But at 15 it was -5 & -6.75 . So not a bad increase i think after the eye exercises because before 15 it would go up like 0.5 every eye doctor visit to even up to a diopter.. 😅. And i started wearing glasses around 8..

I want to take nature walks but my skin is super sensitive to the sun, I’m wondering if the shade from a cap or a wide brim hat makes the eye exercise useless?

In my head, I’m assuming the overall sunlight and difference in vision helps a lot with improving eyesight. But if your eyes are shaded, wouldn’t that mess with the pupils and like how your eyes see things?

I hope my question makes sense lol

I think it’d be helpful if we wrote our gains etc, things we noticed during the week.

I know like you can take measurements with the eye chart, but for instance with my eyesight

-7.25 & -5.25, I cant see much on the eye chart.

How do you see if its been improving then?

I have -4.25 (Left Eye) and -5.25 (Right Eye). I have had myopia since 2016.

-0.25 in 2016

-2.25 in 2018

-3.25 in late 2019

-4.25 and -5.25 this year

I stopped getting my myopia checked for 6 years but I decided to get it checked three days ago because I saw too poorly. And there it was, kind of expected.
But it must be noted that my myopia progression was quite low compared to the jumps in 2018, 2019 even though my phone usage was at all tome high due to covid and staying home. And I just turned 21 so it wasn’t that I was stable at that time.

I did do exercises but I’ve stopped doing them ever since I went to uni and that might have increased my myopia significantly more. And I had a shitty diet. I also used my phone in dark oh god I don’t know what’s wrong with me.

I have researched a lot on what I can do and I’ll be doing the following. please correct me if I’m wrong.

1. using two different glasses one with -5 & -4 snd one with -3.25

2. using print pushing (Dr. Todd Becker)

3. using active focus though I still can’t figure it out

4. talking nature walks

5. using point shifting and zooming

6. reducing my oxidative stress

7. looking into red therapy (its quite expensive and I’m broke so for now I’ll do with sunset due to significant amount of scattered red light)

8. yoga, palming (I want to believe they work because hey I did this a lot)

And I would be open to everyone’s opinion but please don’t rain on my parade saying ‘You can’t undo it. It’s scientifically impossible’. I have something I must accomplish and further increase in my myopia would shatter my dream (if it becomes pathological). It still hinders my dream at the current state.

Hello everyone,

I've been getting my eyes checked regularly every few months. I wear glasses with a prescription of -4.00 for my myopia, and I also have dry eyes, so I've been using carboxymethyl cellulose sodium eye drops as recommended.

The issue is that my left eye has looked swollen for about the past 5 years. I've seen multiple eye doctors, but every time they tell me it's just dry eye and to continue using the lubricating drops.

However, the outer corner/edge of my left eye (the area I've marked in the picture) is often painful and feels swollen, even if it doesn't always look very obvious. Lately, I've also started noticing what seems to be a slight hypotropia (the left eye appears to sit a little lower than the right).

Since this has been going on for years and doesn't seem to be improving, I'm wondering if anyone has experienced something similar or has any idea what else could cause these symptoms. Has anyone had a condition that was initially mistaken for dry eye?

I'm not looking for a diagnosis—just wondering if there are any conditions I should ask my eye doctor to evaluate or whether I should seek a different type of specialist.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

When I was about 45; my doctor told me to have my eyes checked up! Just a routine check due to my age, as I was not experiencing any issues.

I went to an eye doctor, an optometrist. Turned out that I am losing vision in my left eye and it is 75% functional, I was given prescription eyeglasses. She also referred me to a specialist, trying to figure out the issues with my left eye, which she was thinking could be related to my diabetes (I have type two diabetes).

Specialist checked my eyes and said I need to control my diabetes! No resolution provided.

I didn’t really like the way they handled it. Discussed with my doctor and referred to an Ophthalmologist. She and a Retina Specialist examined my eyes, said my left eye was defective since I was born and not sure why it is acting up now. Both confirmed that there is no sign of diabetes in my eyes. Poor vision is the result of defective eye that is not producing enough tears, and it is drying inside. I was told to use artificial tears, and no other solution given.

I am now seeing both the Ophthalmologist and the retina now once a year. Things have not been changed in my left eye, no diabetes in eyes yet. No additional medication or surgery, just regular artificial tears to use.

My optometrist also checks the eyes once a year and changes the power of the eyeglasses. Last check says no improvement or significant difficulties in vision.

Now my questions are ….

Is this something that cannot be fixed? No surgery, no actual medication?
Should I keep seeing my Ophthalmologist and the Retina Specialist, and pay them a lot of money if they can’t do anything about it?
Not seeking specific medical advice, just gathering others’ experiences and expertise. Thank you!

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/9bqwt_v4
Whilst I was doing research on myopia reversal. I came across this paper that alleges that the author , as an adult, went from -6 dpt to natural vision in 6 months using myopic defocus.

What do you guys think. Is it possible?

Hey guys I am 13 and my power is -4.5 . I just wanted to know that can I improve my vision naturally and if yes how can I? And another question how much Screentime should I have? Like is 8 hours bad for me in a day? Any advice or Tips and tricks would be Helpful. Thank you