Myopia: A Modern yet Reversible Disease

Re:Myopia: A Modern yet Reversible Disease by nicolas_t on Thursday July 29, 2021 @02:26PM (#27999752)

Anecdote, as a teen, I was diagnosed as having myopia (mostly on one eye) and got glasses. I refused to wear them most of the time, during that time I spent more time outdoor, looking further away and also develop an habit to stare at points far away whenever I'm thinking.

Since I'm 25, whenever I do an eye test, they tell me that I have a very small amount of myopia on one eye but it's very small and I don't need glasses.

Interestingly, when I talked to an eye doctor recently, he told me that they no longer try to push glasses so much when there's a small vision issue.

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Re:Myopia: A Modern yet Reversible Disease by legerdemain on Thursday July 29, 2021 @05:43PM (#28001866)

Another anecdote: I developed myopia in high school and college, where it became progressively more difficult to read what was written on blackboards and transparency projectors. I resolutely refused to get glasses. By the time I got my first pair of glasses at 25, my prescription was around -3.25 in both eyes.

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Re:Myopia: A Modern yet Reversible Disease by perlancar3 on Sunday August 01, 2021 @08:46PM (#28031738)

Wow, I wonder how you got by. I'm useless when I had -2 or -3 myopia: couldn't recognize people's faces, couldn't read signs. With -3 I think your computer screen even looks blurry.

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Re:Myopia: A Modern yet Reversible Disease by legerdemain on Monday August 02, 2021 @12:31PM (#28038861)

With significant difficulty! I was very bought into the idea that glasses make your vision worse. By the time I got my glasses, I couldn't read the menus that fast food restaurants post overhead or enjoy board games with friends (requires reading small text on the playing pieces).

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