I Might Be Nearsighted In One Eye And Farsighted In The Other .

Can you be both farsighted and nearsighted?

Yes. Wait until you are middle aged and you'll see!

I have always been short sighted. Now I am also long sighted in that I cannot read close up any longer. As we age the lens of our eyes loses flexibility and can no longer adjust properly to allow us to focus close up. Most older people get long sighted and need glasses. Those of us who were already short sighted STILL can't see in the distance, and to add to that we can no longer see close up and need vari focals, bi focals, two or three pairs of glasses or new lenses in our eyes. Believe me it sucks.

I am nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other? What can I do?

I'm too young for eye surgery (15) and one eye is very blurry far away (about a foot away) the other eye is very sharp far away but about a foot too close is blurry at first but sharpes when I squint. I get headaches and sore eyes. I wear glasses with two dfferent prescriptions but they don't seem to be fixing the problem. I tried contacts but they were so uncomfortable I had to stop. What now?

Farsighted and nearsighted?

First of all, your at an age where your eyes are almost stabilized. Meaning, you may have some slight changes but not major. This is the norm anyway. Contact lenses would certainly be ideal for you as they will not make your eyes look any different. However, if you have a lazy eye the Dr. may have prescribed prism in your lenses that cannot be corrected with contact lenses. Do you see anything on your prescription that has a triangle with a number and arrrow beside it? if not, I would definitely discuss getting contact lenses with the Dr.

Some advantages of getting contacts, if you are a candidate that is are:
1) Aesthetically, your eyes will appear the same
2) better overall vision
3) Less change in your Rx. overtime as the contacts do not allow for as much change in the shape of the eye

Is it common to be nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other one?

The more correct term is anisometropia not anitmetropia. It is not common but definitely not unheard of. The problem with this condition is that one of your lenses will magnify the world you see. The other will minify the world. Sometimes the brain has a hard to combining two images of diffferent sizes. Some people are not that sensitive to this phenomenon whereas others are. If you wear the glasses and have trouble adapting then you very well may need to have the glasses remade with the more expensive option. The other possible solution would be to have your doctor modify your two eye glasses prescriptions so that you are a little undercorrected in both eyes, therefore making the difference between the two lenses less noticeable.

I am nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other, I am fifteen, how can I cure this naturally? With exercise when would I see results?

I'm exactly the same, and my ophthalmologist says that's highly desirable -- better than being totally farsighted or totally nearsighted.

I don't even need glasses all the time, just for reading purposes, to magnify and sharpen print a little. I use the lowest magnification and don't even need prescription readers.

So, perhaps you don't really need glasses. Moreover, exercises are unlikely to help you, and besides the vitamins that may help stave off serious eye problems in old age (which are the vitamins you'll find in any multivitamin), there's no special diet that will change anything.

But have your prescription checked, just in case. Note that the point of glasses is not to "cure" your eyes so that you don't have to wear them. It's to make you see better when you ARE wearing them.

For how long did you try the contacts? You need to give yourself a lot of time to get used to them.

I have a nearsighted eye and a far sighted eye...what does that really mean for me?

"One eye will fall out?"
Nah. It'll explode before that happens.

You have *almost* certainly sacrificed a degree of binocular visin for that way of working your eyes, but you're so accustomed to it that you probably don't know the difference.

It's just possible that getting a spectacle correction to let both eyes be in focus for distance and near would give you a whole new sense of 3D and sharpness, but it's at least as likely that the demands of binocular coordination and cooperation would be so strange and stressful that it would be totally counterproductive. Only the attempt would prove it one way or the other. There would be no risk involved, except for the cost of the glasses.

Since you are using both eyes, just alternately, there is no risk of one eye becoming dominant and the other lazy.

When you hit presbyopia, you may go on for years as you are, to the envy of others your age struggling with varifocals.
When you do start to need glasses, it is probable that the best course will simply be to reinforce what you are already doing, and tune your distance eye for very best distance sight, and your reading eye for best reading vision.

This is a perfectly acceptable technique (deliberately done to some contact lense wearers, where it is called monovision).
But some optometrists, bogged down in routine, might by reflex correct each eye for distance and supply a reading addition, for varifocals that might be the best answer for many, but *may* not be the best answer for you.