My Awful eyesight!!!!!!

Max Raker · #1 07-10-2005, 01:03 AM

I went to the eye doctor today for the first time in two years. My perscription is now -4.2 -4.8. Last time they were both in the -3's. That seems like a pretty big jump to me. The glasses that i wear when i'm not wearing contacts are pretty thick now. I'm 19 and and wondering if most people with bad vision keep getting worse or does it plateau at some point?????

Piz0wn0reD!!!!!! · #2 07-10-2005, 01:08 AM

20/20 and 20/15

i can see everything

JDErickson · #3 07-10-2005, 01:15 AM

Yes it usually evens out after time. Mine did when I hit about 25.

20-550 right 20-650 left

kasey2004 · #4 07-10-2005, 01:32 AM

I am 19 almost 20 and my eyes went from -3.5 to -4.0 in a year. When does it even out ? is it just like growing in general ?

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Colonel Kataffy · #5 07-10-2005, 04:22 AM

My eyes were -1.25 when I was about 14 and now at 23 my eyes are -6.5. As far as I'm concerned, -4.2 and -4.8 is like having super vision.

Anyway, my vision has been pretty stable at about -6.5 for the past couple years. From what I've been told by opthomologists, it does tend to stabalize in most people by the age of 25.

DasLeben · #6 07-10-2005, 04:59 AM

-4.0 in both eyes, AND I'm an accomplished pilot. It's not a big deal at all.

sleight · #7 07-10-2005, 04:06 PM

I'll add to the chorus of stabilization.

But really you guys have nothing to worry about, as I'm currently at -10 and -11.25.

spamuell · #8 07-10-2005, 04:13 PM

-7.5 and -8 + astigmatism and have been since early teens. I am so glad contact lenses exist.

gorie · #9 07-10-2005, 04:15 PM

i wonder what it was like for people before glasses were invented.

zokbarjazz · #10 07-10-2005, 04:48 PM

i'm 22. -7.5 in both eyes...contacts are amazing. laser surgery as soon as they'll let me.