ml@pnet01.cts.com (Monica Lombrozo) (10/13/90)
Index Number: 11082
I have a problem. I'm nearsighted and becoming more nearsighted.
I've worn glasses for a year (since my 18th birthday), and it's
gotten to the point where I feel kind of naked without them.
They're part of my appearance now. I found out that I needed
glasses in a routine school eye exam, a year ago.
I was surprised as everything seemed ok to me. I think that
most people are surprised when they find out they need glasses.
How do most people find out they need glasses?
I was a bit surprised when the eye doctor told me I need glasses,
everything seemed ok to me. The previous test would have been
about 16 months before, in which I scored perfect vision, so
I reasoned that my sight had deteriorated fairly quickly.
I remember thinking 'Wow, the world is amazingly detailed!
the first time I put on glasses; [ ... ] Do you get
this feeling everytime you get a new prescription?
My sight has deteriorated fairly quickly.
I worry and wonder how much further it would go? Everyone I
know that is near-sighted, continues to need stronger and
stronger prescriptions. It is depressing losing my eyesight
over what seemed like such a short time. I think I'm very
young to start loosing my sight.Has anyone had the same
feeling? I'm currently in 20/70. I started at 20/40. I feel
that I'm nearly blind right now, I can not imagine becoming
more nearsighted. How often do a nearsighted person
require a new prescription? When does it stop getting worse?
I think there is no one who is nearsighted and has improve
their vision. I realized that I'm stuck for life wearing
glasses and being nearly blind. The one good thing, most
near-sighted people do not lose their close vision as quickly
as normal people. Most likely I won't need bi-focals until I'm
50's or 60's probably.
Every time I have to use more and more my glasses. I use them
now to see the T.V. in my bedroom. 4 months ago I could see it
quite right without my glasses. My t.v. is very close to my
bed. Do most nearsighted people depend more and more on their
glasses to see thing? How do most people notice that they
Lately, I get headaches if I try to do anything without my
glasses that involves focusing my eyes, even reading a book
less than a foot in front of my face, so I wear my glasses all
the time. [ ... ] Many people say if I wear glasses all the time,
my eyesight will deteriorate FASTER than if I do not! Is this true?
Did most people weared their glasses all the time when they first
got them? In the book written by Bates states that one should
try to use their glasses least amount of time. I tried to follow
his instructions but I needed to use my glasses. Has anyone
improved their eyesight using his method?
My first glasses where pretty close to flat glass.
When I put my first pair of glasses I realize that my eyes
are quite a bit worse now.
I think I have to see the eye doctor soon. I may need a
stronger prescription. It was 6 months since my last check
up. I'm squinting more and more everyday.Is horribe how I'm
becoming more nearsighted every day. The doctor told me is normal.
I don't like it. My prescription right now is -1.75 in each
eye. It use to be -1.00. I will need to buy new glasses soon.
What do I do with the old ones? I can start a collection. If my
eyes change like they are changing I'm going to have 10 pairs of
glasses in five years from now. Who out there has the biggest
collection?
Thanks Monica
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INET: ml@pnet01.cts.comera@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold) (10/19/90)
Index Number: 11197 In article <14943@bunker.UUCP> ml@pnet01.cts.com (Monica Lombrozo) writes: |Index Number: 11082 | | I have a problem. I'm nearsighted and becoming more nearsighted. |I've worn glasses for a year (since my 18th birthday), and it's |gotten to the point where I feel kind of naked without them. |It is depressing losing my eyesight |over what seemed like such a short time. I think I'm very |young to start loosing my sight.Has anyone had the same |feeling? I'm currently in 20/70. I started at 20/40. I feel |that I'm nearly blind right now, I can not imagine becoming |more nearsighted. Don't feel too bad about it. My prescription is worse than -8.00 in both eyes, and I've been that way since before I was 9 years old, and I've recently passed the big 40. It really isn't *that* much of an impediment. After all, there are many people whose posts find their way into this forum, who have virtually *no* vision, so what have we got to complain about? If you're really worried about it becoming super progressive, visit a good ophthalmologist. There has been some stuff in the press recently about how gas-permeable hard contact lenses *halt* the progression of nearsightedness in almost all cases. This is hardly new news; my ophthalmologist told me when I was 16 and getting my first pair of contact lenses (the old non-permeable type, at that time) that I could expect them to halt the progression of my myopia. They have; my prescription hasn't changed much since then. I've never considered radical/invasive means (e.g. keratotomy) to correct my vision ... its long-term success is still not proven. The only really bad thing about contacts, is that they're sensitive to dust and sand. -- Ed Arnold * NCAR * POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000 * 303-497-1253(voice) 303-497-1137(fax) * era@ncar.ucar.edu [128.117.64.4] * era@ncario.BITNET era@ncar.UUCP * Edward.Arnold@f809.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG
barbour@boulder.Colorado.edu (Jim Barbour) (10/23/90)
Index Number: 11209 Hello, My name is Jim Barbour and I am blind. I work as a computer programmer at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and until a year ago at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. I want to say that losing one's vision is a very difficult thing to go through. I have talked with many, many people who are becomming blind. However, It is really sad when a person fails to get the support, skills and confidence they'll need as a blind person because they don't want to deal with losing their vision. It is not hard to learn how to live a full, happy, productive life as a blind person. Many blind persons hold down jobs, maintain households, raise children, belong to community organizations and do all the other things that make life full and rewarding. I know this sounds like a big sales pitch, but it isn't. It's the way most blind persons live. If you are losing your vision, or know someone who is, please do not hesitate to contact me (see below) or the nearest chapter of the National Federation of the Blind (national office phone number below). I aplogize if I stepped on anyone's toes with this article, but it is VERY important that persons who are losing their vision be aware that blindness is not the hell that most people (blind and sighted) are taught that it is. Sincerely Yours, Jim Barbour (303) 530-1375 national Federation of the Blind -- National Office, baltimore, Merryland (301) 659-9314 there is a chapter of the National Federation of the Blind in every state and most major (and quite a few not so major) cities.