Bad eyesight for a 15 year old?
I was rummaging through my daughter's things the other day and I found a pair of glasses (she have never owned a pair). When I asked her why she had glasses, she confessed that they belonged to a friend who let her keep them because she was having trouble seeing things in the distance (the friend presumably got a new pair). My daughter was too shy to come and tell us she had bad vision, and she had been using her friends glasses for over 9 months. When we got her to the optician, he conducted an exam and prescribed glasses with the following strength: OS SPH -1.75 OD SPH -2.75 I don't really understand what OS and OD stand for. I am also not familiar with the numbers. The assistance seemed to imply that the glasses should be worn all the time. Is this correct?
My eyesight is -6, and I am 22 years old. Is that bad?
If you walk around without corrective lenses, that''s not a good idea.But if you are correctable to 20/20 and get glasses or lenses, you're fine.
Is 3.75 bad eyesight for a 14 year old?
It needs to be corrected with glasses or contacts for sure. -3.75 means that the 14 year old is nearsighted, so sees well up close but not well far away. I’d estimate the visual acuity at about 20/200 (bordering on 20/400) meaning they see at 20 feet what a person with normal vision sees from 200 feet away. They would not be legal or safe to drive a car and unable to see things clearly on the board in class or on a screen in the movie theater.Vision tends to change rapidly during the teen years when the body is changing the most. Be sure to get annual eye exams and keep those lenses updated. Myopia (nearsightedness) is increasingly common and is extraordinarily prevalent in Asian populations in particular. There isn’t really anything that can be done to prevent or improve it; it has more to do with the shape of your eyeball and the thickness and shapes of your corneas and natural lenses in your eyes.
Is having -4.5 eyesight bad for a 17 year old? I'm afraid my eyesight will get progressively worse as I grow older now.
No, it’s not bad at all.It’s normal to need some correction, and -4.5 isn’t really considered “very poor vision.”I first needed correction when I was 8, and I would have to go back every nine months to get a new prescription after that.But when I was 12, I needed to get a new prescription every three months. My eyesight would decrease by one (I guess I’ll call it a unit?) unit in that time. My vision would go from -3.0 to -4.0 in that time.Yea, the optometrist told me I was at risk for all these different eye conditions, and told me I could lose my eyesight by 30. They closely monitored my eyesight for a while after that. They still do today.Eventually, when I was 13.5, my eyesight thankfully stopped worsening so quickly, and I was able to return to yearly eye exams. I haven’t needed a new prescription since then.I am now 15 years old, and I am considered to have “poor vision.” In my left eye, my eyesight is -7.0, and -6.5 in my right. I don’t have any issues with my eyes other than very blurry vision without correction. I can wear contacts, and my eyes work properly.My optometrist told me that my eyes would eventually slow down and would not worsen so quickly, and he was right.I think in your case, your eyes seem just fine. I don’t think that you’ll lose your eyesight, unless you develop an eye condition or unless there is an accident that causes you to lose your eyesight.You might need to update your prescription occasionally, but it will probably not change that much since you are pretty much an adult now.Also, the answer to the question, “What prescription is considered to be legally blind?”I found an article by New Health Advisor that might be very helpful to you.New Health Advisor for Daily Health Care.I don’t really know a lot of scientific things about the eye, but from my experiences, I think your eyes will be just fine in the future.
I have verry bad eyesight and im still only 15?
I'm 16 and I mostly wear contacts and my glasses don't bother me so much (okay, a lil bit lol) but my eyesight is -4.0 on both eyes and I've had glasses since I was 11 when I started off as -1.5. Your eyesight will probably stop deteriorating in the next few years, and if they do get worse it would only be a teeny bit so don't worry :) You could always try out for laser eye surgery like I want to :)
Is -3.5 vision bad for a 13 year old?
my eyesight was never this bad until I got to grade 5-6. At first my eyesight was around -2 and then I lost my glasses and then never put glasses on until the beginning of grade 7. My vision became worse. It was -3. I wore my glasses and now, in grade 8, I noticed my prescription was getting low. I went back and they told me my vision is -3.5. is this bad? I'm still young and my eyes are so bad. I'm basically the only person in my family with horrible eyesight. I'd say I'm on my phone and computer a lot. will my vision get worse? I don't know if this will help but I'm 5'3 and 152 pounds. Oh and when I went back to my eye doctor last week, I feel like they gave me glasses that were to much of a high prescription. I don't wear those glasses because they hurt my eyes and I feel like they make my vision a bit (not too much!) BLURRY. Please help..
Is -3.75 sight on both eyes bad for a 15-year-old? What will happen in the future?
That would be very blurry vision without spectacles. Prescribed glasses should be on constant use. Some dietary habit change with lots of greens and splashing the eyes with cool clean water while keeping your mouth full with water, daily in the morning is a good practice. Seen this improvement with more clarity, wearing -0.75 glasses.Since you are 15, you shud consult a Doctor, a nutritionalist and do away with gazing at things without blinking, daydreaming…if you know what i mean ☺Keeping the eyes moist by dropping normal filtered water helps.
15 years old, bad vision? D=?
My eyesight is -9.75 and -10.25 AND i have astigmatism. i'm pretty "blind" but i see perfectly well with my rigid contact lenses. you really can't improve your vision unless you get laser eye surgery, and even that doesn't last forever. my vision got steadily worse until i got contacts at age 14, then my vision changes slowed down, so it's been fairly stable since then. (i'm 17 now) so i recommend getting contacts rather than glasses. but don't worry, you won't go blind! and being on the computer does not hurt your eyes, it only strains them! so be sure to take a 10minute break from the computer every hour to rest your eyes. talk to your eye doctor! i'm sure the doctor will assure you you will not go blind. =)
Is -8 vision bad for a 15-year-old?
It’s not great, but could definitely be worse. Be grateful for the wonders of modern optometry!I have worn corrective lenses of one kind or another since age seven. My strongest ones were -12, but glasses always corrected me to 20–20. When I was 14, I was thrilled to get contact lenses. I felt beautiful. I needed stronger correction for the myopia as the years went by. Around age forty, I reverted to glasses because bifocal contacts couldn’t give me enough difference between close and far. But the plastics kept getting better, and I could afford designer frames, so I was still pretty satisfied. I recently unearthed an old pair from the eighties, when the style was huge frames. The lenses were a full inch thick at the edge! I think those were only -9. Compare that to today’s super-thin lenses!And, you know, being nearsighted has its advantages. Maybe I could only see two inches from my nose, but with naked eyeballs, I could: read my reduced-print OED (it came with its own magnifying glass), thread a needle; untangle a fine gold chain; remove a splinter; read your fingerprint right off your thumb. Superpower! I miss it. When I had cataracts removed last year, new lenses were implanted. I can actually walk around, do dishes, feed cats, water lawn, with no glasses at all! Still need ‘em for driving and TV. Sadly, need glasses for reading and close work. Using +3 drugstore glasses. But I can see my toes in the shower!Being very nearsighted does slightly increase the risk of detached retinas. Eyeballs aren’t perfectly round, like a basketball. Myopia is more like a football, and that stretch increases the tension. I had been warned about the risk, and I knew the symptoms, so when I saw those lines and spots I went to my optometrist right away. He referred me to an ophthalmologist who repaired it the same day by laser. You don’t even lie down. Sit in a chair while they shine the light in your eye. Easy-peasy.All in all, being nearsighted is not such a big deal.