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Can your sight get better with age?
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My Mother has worn glasses or contact lenses for as long as I can remember.
She is now 76 and no longer wears her lenses, only recently stopped. She said they were irritating.
We noticed that also doesn't wear glasses now, other than reading and asked her if she could see alright. She said it was fine.
She still drives, and we are a little worried that she can see properly.
Can sight improve with age?
I'm hoping so as i'm one step up from white stick!
She is now 76 and no longer wears her lenses, only recently stopped. She said they were irritating.
We noticed that also doesn't wear glasses now, other than reading and asked her if she could see alright. She said it was fine.
She still drives, and we are a little worried that she can see properly.
Can sight improve with age?
I'm hoping so as i'm one step up from white stick!
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I hope she takes your advice. You should have an appointment every two
years, sometimes less if there are other health proplems to be taken into consideratio n.
years, sometimes less if there are other health proplems to be taken into consideratio
00:22 Sat 26th May 2012
at the age of 15...now 68...I went to the opticians..given lowest glasses for
reading. In the years, I have never been since. 3yrs ago I decided to go...
( I have been wearing 1,25 in the £1 cheap range) was told, they could give
me the equivelant of what I was using.
So...in the 53 years..if I had continued to go..what strenght would I be wearing???
Distance is still the same..
reading. In the years, I have never been since. 3yrs ago I decided to go...
( I have been wearing 1,25 in the £1 cheap range) was told, they could give
me the equivelant of what I was using.
So...in the 53 years..if I had continued to go..what strenght would I be wearing???
Distance is still the same..
Sorry Chi Chi, posted as you were.
I think everyone is different, I have worn glasses since I was 12, now 50 and my eyes have deteriorated to the point that unless I wear high index lenses, quite thin, they would be like milk bottle bottoms! I always say to people that if you see me without glasses, keep out of the way as I won't see you!
I think everyone is different, I have worn glasses since I was 12, now 50 and my eyes have deteriorated to the point that unless I wear high index lenses, quite thin, they would be like milk bottle bottoms! I always say to people that if you see me without glasses, keep out of the way as I won't see you!
The very first thing I do when I get up is reach for my glasses. I would be lost without them and am glad I live in this era and not in the past when I would have had to get on without them. An optician told me some time ago that if eyes suddenly started to improve so that you didn't need glasses there was a possibility that something was wrong. So the quicker it is checked the better. Also when you get old, cataracts form over the eyes (I am getting mine done on June 28th) which will decrease eyesight, not increase. I stopped driving some time ago when I realised I was a danger to other people not only myself. I can understand the contact lens bit but to stop wearing glasses altogether seems a bit wrong to me.
Shortsightedness can improve slightly in your fifties and beyond due to the natural ageing of the lens inside your eye. However, sometimes longsightedness can improve due to a type of cataract which causes the central part of the lens to become denser. Depending on the prescription of your mothers eyes in the first place one of these can be looked at as the cause of this change. My money is on the cataract given the recent change and the fact that she had readers to begin with.
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