my eyes are very weak(-4.25-2.75) and I feel they have become weak again.I am 17.5 years old.\nIs that normal?
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Well, for a short sighted person it is pretty normal. I am 22 and my eyes are both at a -6. They say that your eyes worsen until the age of 18 and then it should stop. Do not be distressed, your eyesight is not that bad when compared to mine.
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Ok heres my story:\n\nI had -7 myopia. awfully thick glasses, pretty expensive too and I was virtually blind without them. my glasses were pretty much a part of me, the last thing I did before sleeping and the first thing I reached for when I woke up in the morning. I had astigmatism to boot, and contacts weren't an option. and to make things worse, I had to keep getting stronger pair every 6 months or so. \n\nI am glad I went and got my Lasik. Freedom.\nmy eyes havent gotten weaker, and I didn't need to get glasses. Apparently glasses and their constant moving towards and away from the eye have something to do with increasing power. Yes as I age, my eyes will get weaker in the close region and I might have to get reading glasses for hyperopia, it is not the same thing, and is much better than glasses 24x7 for normal vision.\n\nBe aware though that it isn't entirely a bed of roses. There are some small differences between perfectly normal eyes and lasik treated eyes. First thing you would notice after surgery is dispersion. Bright lights in the dark tend to spread a little, no a disability but is slightly annoying till you get used to it. (this might or might not happent to you depending on the power that you are corrected for). Another effect is a slight drop in contrast when ambient light is low, again not a real issue.\n\nYou should also be aware that not all people are eligible to get lasik. your eligibility is the thickness of your cornea. depending on the power for which your eyesight has to be corrected, your cornea needs to be of atleast a minimum thinkness before a surgeon can create a lens on it. thinning it too much is dangerous because the eye holds some fluids that are under pressure.\n\nThough the surgeon tries to bring the error to 0 Diopters, sometimes there can be a "residual" power left and you might still need to wear glasses after the surgery. But for somebody like me, wearing -0.25 glasses after surgery when i was wearing -7.0 before is perfectly acceptable and is worth the expense. It might not be acceptable for someone wearing -0.5 before the surgery. This is something for you to decide on before you go for the surgery.\n\n24 is a reasonable age to get your lasik. your vision "stabilises" once your growth stops. This is around 18-22 for most people. I'm 25 now, I got my lasik when I was 22.
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i have a sister who has c/p she isn't blind but cant do to much of anything for herself between me and my family we take good care of her just relax and be yourself  try not to treat her no different than you would anyone else my sister is 18 and we treat her like she is one of us calm down because they have a baby like demeanor and can since uneasiness look at it in a positive way and think of it like this god has a test for you through being with her you make it through there is a reward that only god can give
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Gaming can be very harsh on the eyes! The light from the screen causes a lot of damage to the eyes and it may end up being serious. To avoid more trouble try to limit your gaming time. I know that is hard to do, especially now that it is summer, but to save you vision, I'd calm it down a bit! Go play outside some more! I get Migraine headaches which are a lot like over exposure to iridescent light....you start seeing spots and you get really dizzy and light headed. Then a stomach ache follows along with a POUNDING headache. I lie down for awhile and drink a lot of juice and the spots usually fade away. I also take Tylenol or another form of medicine. I am not sure if this will help you or not, but it is worth a try. Good luck to you and your brother!
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That's totally normal for a new prescription. It seems like every time they change my prescription for my glasses and contacts my perspective just seems weird for about the first two weeks, but then it goes away. Of course I still get that sensation when I switch between my contacts and glasses, but just for few minutes. \n\nAll I can say is, keep wearing your glasses consistently, and give it about two weeks - everything should seem normal by then. \n\ngood luck :)
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Haha...yeah! I go to the doctors, and they say I have 20-20 vision...but I know for a fact, that when I look at things far away...they are somewhat blurry. My right eye is worse than my left. So I finally went to the doctor. And without straining I tried to guess the letters. I got one wrong and the guy was like..ooo! You need glasses! So I got a prescription with only the right eye...like, there are lenses, but only the right one helps me see better...if that makes sense. So yeah...I have glasses, but I don't use them.
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Blink alot and you may not hurt. But after a few hours of just staring then you may be in some eye pain.
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Have you been tested to see if you are anemic.  I am anemic and when my hemoglobin drops low sometimes I get dark cicles under my eyes that won't go away until my iron levels rise.  Just something to check into
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hey you mean you had good vision couple of hours ago and now its blurry... go to a doctor right now...
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Floaters are a permanent part of getting older. Your brain can eventually ignore them but the time frame is different for everyone. Good that you saw your Ophthalmologist and they ruled out the tear/detachment. If you don;'t have a follow up with him/her, you should see them again in 4-6 weeks just to make sure you are ok.
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I have had that problem.  I asked my optometrist about it once.  They told me that it is normal.  It's a combination of a couple of factors:\n1.  Your eyes are trying to accomodate for the lack of light by adjusting to the dark.  This causes your pupils to dialate, which causes blood to flow more rapidly through your eyes, which over-stimulates the optic nerves.\n\n2.  Minor visual hallucination:  Your brain is trying to fill the void with images, trying to make sense of the newly-limited input filtering in.
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the black eyes are often a combination of lack of iron and lack of sleep you should take a food supplement containing ginseng which you can buy at most chemists  also if your not sleeping try reading a book and go to bed at 9;30 each night an read till about ten this gives your body a relaxed sense and really works for me if this doesnt work leave a question in my inbox  chl_farrell@yahoo.com
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I see them too in the dark.. and I have 20/20 vision so I don't think there is anything wrong with you unless it becomes prominate.\n\n\nAsk your family doctor it couldn't hurt. \n\nI always thought it was for this reason...... your eyes are made up of rods and cones that pick up light and color\n\nI see this as being similar to pixles on a tv\n\nour eyes have pixles so to say, and in the dark for our eyes to create the image, you get light and dark pixilation... just my opinion...\n\nwhen it's really dark I see static, not just black..... I know exactly what your talking about\n\n\nyour the first person who has ever said this
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I don't think so.  I have terrible eyesight.  I can't even see the big\n"E" on the eye chart!  I am very nearsighted.  I am in my mid 30's and have had the same prescription for several years now.\nI think it's because I do as much reading as possible without my glasses and I don't wear contacts anymore.  My sister, on the other hand, gets a new prescription every year and it's always worse.  I have heard of some kind of eye exercises advertised on the radio that supposedly restore at least some sight.  I'm sorry I can't be more specific.
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It sounds like a lazy eye, which means the muscle which is attached to your eye has weakened. The eye doctor will give you exercises to help strenthen the muscles to return it to normal. Sometimes the muscles is to loose and an operation to tighten the muscle is performed. This may not be you, so you should go to the doctor.
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As a medical doctor I can assure you that there probably isn't anything to worry about.  Obviously, if you start feeling unwell, your vision is impaired etc then you should seek medical advice.  Chances are in a few days everything will be hunky dory!  It does sound like there is some superficial injury like bruising...
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Hi. I have RP also. I am 35 years old and was diagnosed when I was 22. I had always been nearsighted and struggled with imperfect vision, so when I got the diagnosis - it did not really have an immediate impact on me. Now, however, I am really struggling in so many ways. Of course, there is the obvious - not being able to drive anymore - but there are many other things that have changed for me as well. I feel isolated both physically and emotionally from the rest of the world and I find that it takes so much more effort and determination to do just the normal things. I suffer socially in most situations because I bump into things and people, I trip over people's children - hurting them,  neglect to shake someones hand when it is held out for me (because I can't see it), and cannot often even follow the most mundane activities because visual cues usually guide most activities. I am exhausted from having to explainn all the time, and even though I don't want special attention - I worry that people see me as demanding it if I try to explain too much. As a result, I no longer feel like I am a part of the normal world and I often choose to remove myself from social situations. It is just exhausting, and most days, I don't have the strength to deal with it.\n\nAlso related to the issue of feeling isolated is the way people relate to you once they know you can't see much in front of your nose. I think that although most people are very well intentioned, they cannot help but be over solicitous. They start treating you differently - like something fragile, broken, or they just act afraid to say or do the wrong thing. Sometimes I get the impression that some people are uncomfortable just to even be near me. Maybe they are afraid it is contagious. Another oddity I have found is that I have often felt the pressure to be a spokesperson for blind people - needing to explain to people that, yes, blind people can actually have regular jobs, be married, have children etc. \n\nThose close to me have reacted in differing ways. My husband is very loving and supportive but totally in denial and cannot seem to remember to stop trying to hand me things - holding them out for me to grab. Drives me nuts. To my kids, I am just mom, but I think it frightens them to see me become so dependent. They forget to warn me of stairs, doorways, cars, you name it when we are out together in unfamiliar places. As a result, I am always falling, crashing into things and hurting myself.  Onlookers just think I must be mentally deficient or something. I have a sister in law who won't acknowledge my eye problem. She told me "I don't want to hear about it - there must be something you can do!" She thinks talking about it means I am whining about it. Yet another relative told me that I needed more faith in God to be cured and because I am still losing vision, my faith is not strong enough. Still other relatives open every conversation with "How are your eyes?" as if there is no more to me than my eye problem. I feel like saying, "Fine, how are your bowels?"\n\nI still work, but only marginally. Because we live in a small town, I am pretty much confined to working from home.  I do some contracting work for a news monitoring company but it is very low paying work. In the past, I was a professional with a college degree - now I am barely able to make $400 per month. This is bad for the self esteem.\n\nThe state I live in has special services for people who are visually impaired. They'll set you up with adaptive aids and teach you how to put raised stickers on your stove so you don't overheat the mashed potatoes, but there is nothing anywhere that can teach you how to be a blind person. From A-Z, I need to relearn absolutely everything and there is no resource for that. \n\nAs far as how I am doing - I am angry, frustrated and feeling utterly isolated. There are days when I feel completely useless and there ar