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I (22F) have always had (mild) hyperopia and can't wait to reach the age where I qualify for LASIK - that is if my prescription stays stable over the years. It's always been around +3, my last test was 3 years ago. I always do them at the hospital (where they put the drops in your eyes) but today my glasses broke and I had to get the test done at the shop that sells glasses. When I got the results I was confused... "Left eye: +2.25. Right eye: +1.75"

Great that my eyes got better apparently, but is this normal? Did they mess up? I don't know if I should do another test at the hospital, especially because I already ordered the glasses...

I've had hyperopia from 9 months old, I don't know what life is like to see without glasses, my prescription is like +7.25 and +8.00. Applying eyeliner and eyeshadow is a real struggle for me as I can't see up close at all. Does anyone have any tips or life hacks to make it easier to apply eye makeup?

Toddler sleeps with eyes slightly open..sometimes I notice her eyes roll back. Other times I notice her eyes move in all directions but just like one eye for instance and not the other. It goes inwards

Is this normal?

She has been diagnosed with mild hyperopia but we need to do further tests to check what the actual Diopter is. Doctor said it was +2.00

What are the chances that diopter of +2.00 gets better over time.

Can mild hyperopia mean my daughter does not need to wear glasses? Will she grow out of it? The diopter is +2.00

I wasn't wearing glasses and my power previously was Left +0.50 cyl and +0.50 sph 90° axis and VA of 6/6 while in the right eye I was having +0.75 cyl and +0.75 sph 90° axis and 6/6 V/A I got my eyes tested and now I've+0.75 cyl and sph in both eyes,90° axis and 6/6 V/A basically my right eye's power increased by +0.25 as I wasn't wearing glasses, After I get my glasses I'm gonna wear them all the time after waking up So, How bad is +0.75 cyl and +0.75 sph 90° axis and 6/6 V/ A?

Doctor said to wait till she turns 2 to see if condition improves or not as her eyes are still developing. I s this common among babies?

and what are the chances that she will need glasses?

Thanks

I had a 2nd strabismus surgery last october and it has helped me a lot, honestly.

The thing is that I still have some residual deviation left. My right eye drifts inwards sometimes, the angle is better than before, but it's still giving me double vision.

Long story short: I'm using +1.25 -0.50 170° in my right eye and +0.75 -0.50 135° in my left eye.

Close distance is very good with those glasses. I see well and clear, but it gets blurry from distance. Not crazy blurry, but enough to make an effort to focus and get my eyes tired.

I tried reducing the power (in one eye, then in both too), but even if I see clearer from all distances, my right eye start deviating more than before. I guess the higher power makes my eye use less force to accomodate. I have a high AC/A.

What could I do to have a better distance experience without compromising my right eye to suffer from deviation? My contacts are +0.75 -0.75 at 140° in both eyes. Works well, but I still feel I need to make an effort, mostly when I get tired.

I'm attaching my latest results in the refractometer

https://preview.redd.it/bo6jdbb73fxc1.jpg?width=959&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=830ead909e650637f0259f5bcd5a8deee73f9ad7

Hello, I had femto lasik surgery about 2 weeks ago as soon as I turned 23. My eye was +1.75 +1.75 right and left hyperopia. I also had +0.50 astigmatism in my left eye and +1.00 in my right eye. Actually, I was a glasses addict, and I've been wearing glasses since I was 5 years old (as far as I can remember). I had never had any contact experience and continued with glasses. The reason why I decided to have the surgery is that glasses have lowered my self-confidence and spoiled my appearance since I was little (yes, my friends and close circle said that). After all, I've been thinking about having this surgery since I was 20 years old, and I finally did. But frankly, there were a lot of things that upset me. One week after the surgery, I went to the check-up and my doctor said that everything was fine and went well. But this was not the case for me. Problems I've had since the surgery:
---> Eye floaters (I definitely see it, especially when I look up at the sky or white places)
---> In dim and dark environments, I see things darker than when I see them with glasses, and this upsets me a lot. It has caused me psychological problems lately.
---> Halo and bursts of light (halos are not in my left eye, only in my right eye).
---> Strange brightening of daylight in the morning. And hazy glows around artificial lights.
---> And the thing that upsets me the most is that the surroundings look different compared to what I see with glasses. I mean, I'm having a hard time explaining this and I couldn't tell my doctor exactly, but it may be because I see things differently with glasses. After all, I used to only take off my glasses when I was sleeping. It seems to me that I am looking at it from a different perspective. It's as if I'm looking at it in cinematic mode and it's not my eye. Even in the morning, I see dark places in dim places. It's as if the rooms are not as bright as they used to be.
Finally, astigmatism disappeared as a result of the surgery and a result of 0.25 was obtained in both eyes. But these problems continue. It's only been 2 weeks and my doctor gave another check up 2 months later.

I am 38, was -7.5 before LASIK surgery in Dec 2020, and was overcorrected.

A recent cycloplegic refraction showed:

Right eye +1.50-0.50 X 160 20/20-

Left eye +1.75-0.25 X 015 20/20

I've tried glasses, and now I'm trying scleral lenses. Even then, up close computer work is still hard. I feel like I really have to strain.

I'm trying to understand more about hyperopia. For those who have it, how have you dealt with up close computer work. Are there accomodations that have worked for you?
My surgeon suggested lasik surgery, but I'm skeptical how this would be any different from just wearing glasses.

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Hi, all.

So I have relatively high hyperopia. I'm +9.5 and +8.5 in my left and right respectively. I'm 29 and been like this since at least 3 years old. I also have a strabismus.

Anyone with similar prescription have any surgery or contact lens success stories? Feeling down about my lack of options.

Hi i recently read that wearing minus lenses can elongate your eyes by something called hyperopic defocus. I am 23 Year old małe +0.5sph -1. 5 cyl 180axis. I Wonder if i wear minus lenses for a while could i purposefully elongate my eye so that i treat hyperopia?

I’m 38 and tbh looking back probably could have used glasses years ago even in my 20s. Driving at night started to be hell and I would squint a lot to make out signs and reduce light glare. I have a light prescription (+1.00 and +O.75 for right and left), but since I got my glasses two weeks ago I noticed a huge difference in how I feel. So my diagnosis was hyperopia—no age-related presbyopia yet—and it took just half a day for me to get used to wearing glasses. My doctor said to wear them all the time if it was comfortable and that’s what I’m doing. I’ve noticed if I don’t wear them the tension, headaches, eye strain and fatigue comes back, and reading small print or anything within a foot or so of my face is blurry and strains my eyes to try and focus on. Even if I try to really focus on detail at distance, like a particular leaf on a tree, strains me. I can feel my eye muscles working harder to make up for eyes. Things are much sharper too with glasses on. When they’re on my eyes feel super relaxed and I can just see and take in detail and read on pages or screens no problem, at length. I’m sure some of y’all have much more severe degrees of hyperopia than I currently do, but does this sound about right?

On Thursday 9th June 2022, I had LASIK for hyperopia and astigmatism, in order to try to fix my accommodative strabismus.

Since I was 5, I had strabismus, and I had a surgery back in '97 (I was 6, born in July 1991). I developed a mild amblyopia in my right eye. After the surgery, I had to still wear glasses, but my eyes had no strabismus while wearing them (which is the definition of accommodative strabismus).

When I was 15, my hyperopia (which was around +1.75 in each eye) started making my eye turn inwards, even with glasses or contacts on. The solution was changing my prescription. Around my 20s, same thing happened, and also a change in the prescription was the solution for my accommodative strabismus.

Things got harder when I got close to my 30s. Strabismus came back, but this time is was partially accommodative. At this time I had +2.50 (left eye) and +2.75 (right eye with mild amblyopia). -0.75 of astigmatism in each eye.

I tried for more than 2 years different glasses and contacts. Multifocal didn't help completely, because in my country (Uruguay) we still don't have multifocal TORIC lenses. That way, I could correct my near vision, but my far vision was blurry, due to my astigmatism. After a long trial period, I found an "acceptable" combination, which made my eyes accommodate better and reduce my astigmatism. I stared wearing a monofocal toric lens in my left eye (+2.50 -0.75 at 180°) and a multifocal with LOW addition in my right eye (Bausch+Lomb +2.00 LOW). This way, I had clear vision with my left dominant eye, and my right eye didn't have to force that much to accommodate.

Anyways, some days I was great, and some other I still had some mild deviation (and everyone who has strabismus knows how much it sucks).

Since I had a stable prescription for almost 2,5 years, I decided to have LASIK for hyperopia and astigmatism. I was lucky to have a thick corneal tissue (around 571 in my thinnest point). Everything was good to go, and on Thursday 9th of June, I had LASIK.

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1 WEEK POST-SURGERY UPDATE (16/06/2022):

- Dry eyes: Only in the morning. Sometimes during the night I feel my eyes very dry, but I just put some drops and I go back to sleep. When I wake up, some more drops and it doesn't bother me a lot more during the day. Anyways, I put some more drops during the day just to avoid any pain, but it's completely bearable.

- Strabismus: From day 4 to 6, I felt my strabismus was coming back, but I also knew my prescription was changing as my cornea is healing. I had double vision a couple of minutes, but blinking made it go away. I think I'm feeling anxious about it and that makes things harder than they are. It's like my previous strabismus has me traumatized LOL. Whenever I feel double vision and I look at myself in the mirror, the angle is barely noticeable, so I should be feeling good about the surgery result in that matter.

- Near eyesight: I can't complain. Near eyesight has been excellent from day one.

- Far eyesight: I am still myopic one week post-surgery, but it's been getting better slowly (a lot of patience is needed). I wasn't able to see clearly 1,5 metres away from me, and now I can see prorably 3 metres into the distance (clearly, of course). If I try to the a street sign or the number of the bus that it's coming, it gets hard until it get closer, but that some common post-surgery side effect if the surgery is for hyperopia. Give it time.

- Pain, other complications: No pain other than dry eyes or typical pain of the cornea's healing process (like a small pinch, nothing to be afraid). Ghosting and halos when looking into the distance, specially at night, but they're all common side effects which should go away as weeks go by.

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2 WEEK POST-SURGERY UPDATE (23/06/2022):

- Dry eyes: Barely noticeable and it doesn't bother me at all. Maybe I was lucky with this side effect. However, I'm using drops in order to follow the instructions for a better healing.

- Strabismus: Strabismus came back with double vision. During the first days, I was really myopic, but then I started to see clearer from a distance. I'm guessing that my prescription is varying daily, so my brain has to adapt to it, making it drift sometimes.

- Near eyesight: Good, except for when I'm looking at a distance and then I look at something close to me. My eyes are taking some time to focus, thus making my eyes crossed.

- Far eyesight: I'm still having difficulties with my distance vision. My right eye has a mild amblyopia, but I can tell is sharper than my left eye (dominant). Left eyesight is still pretty poor at distance, with a -1.00 astigmatism approximately, which makes me see ghosting effect when looking at dark backgrounds and white letters. I've been told that I need to be patient and give it time for the cornea to heal.

- Pain, other complications: None other than some difficulty with low light and halos around very bright lights. Transition from distance to near vision gets me dizzy, but as I mentioned, I need to give it time to fully heal and readapt.

No matter how many times we go back and forth with the power and the astigmatism the letters are still blurry. Does this mean I will never see 20/20 again?

I have a severe degree of farsightedness since my birth, and it never changed for my life. I wear +6 dpt, but when I need to work in front of laptop I need +7 dpt, and when I read a book I need even more. The problem is that there are no such distance I can see clearly in without glasses, even If it is really far distance like mountains or the moon I always need my +6 dpt glasses. While everyone, including the word "farsightedness" itself, says farsightedness is when you can see far objects. Do you guys have the same issue? Do you know why is it so?

I have hyperopia (+2.50 and +3.00) and astigmatism (only -0.75 in both eyes). I've had accommodative strabismus for years now, and wearing glasses makes them straight. Is it safe to have laser surgery in order to stop using glasses if my eyes accommodate with them? Same happens with my contacts.

Is hyperopia treatable as myopia is with laser surgery?

Got to love attempting to read and respond to a text message first thing in the morning before putting my glasses on or trying to read a book or computer screen without glasses.

So it's been a month or two that i have changed my prescription lens if glasses due to the headache i got , the headache was gone but the dizzyness stayed . i can see clearly , even more clearly then i should be and headache has now returned just above my eyes and i can feel my eyes being all tired . my prescriptions are abit too strong . Can this be due to my new prescription

Where are your favorite places or websites to purchase colored contacts?

I’m trying to make my Halloween costume and I’m struggling to find special effects contacts for (+) power. Particularly snake or cat eye.

le sigh

I can't see a thing without my glasses.

I'm going to Germany today and forgot my cipro at home. Do I need a prescription to get some in Germany?