Exercises glasses/whatever

maryrourke

My sight is beginning to fail. Are these glasses/things with lots of holes any good to strengthen sight?

Mary

Daisies

maryrourke wrote: »

My sight is beginning to fail. Are these glasses/things with lots of holes any good to strengthen sight?

Mary

Short answer no.

They just make the blur less because you are looking through a small hole, they don't cure the problem or improve your eyesight.

Is it your distance or near vision that's failing?

maryrourke

Hi ,

Thanks for reply. My distance is fine--it is reading the newspaper etc. Getting more blurry as the years go.

Daisies

maryrourke wrote: »

Hi ,

Thanks for reply. My distance is fine--it is reading the newspaper etc. Getting more blurry as the years go.

Unfortunately that is an age related change that happens to everybody and is irreversible.

Mousewar

Daisies wrote: »

Unfortunately that is an age related change that happens to everybody and is irreversible.

Well there are surgeries. Three I can think of would be laser surgery to achieve monovision, kamra inlay, and this new thing called Refocus which I just read about.
Not saying I recommend any of these but they're out there.

Daisies

Mousewar wrote: »

Well there are surgeries. Three I can think of would be laser surgery to achieve monovision, kamra inlay, and this new thing called Refocus which I just read about.
Not saying I recommend any of these but they're out there.

Yes there are surgeries, none of which will reverse the effects completely. Monovision will affect people's depth perception, kamra hasn't been investigated for it's long term effects and the last I read about it was that the results were extremely variable and I haven't read about Refocus. But in relation to the OP, no exercises/ glasses will reverse it and surgery won't REVERSE it, it will give you so freedom from glasses but will never make your vision the same as when you were 20.

Mousewar

Daisies wrote: »

Yes there are surgeries, none of which will reverse the effects completely. Monovision will affect people's depth perception, kamra hasn't been investigated for it's long term effects and the last I read about it was that the results were extremely variable and I haven't read about Refocus. But in relation to the OP, no exercises/ glasses will reverse it and surgery won't REVERSE it, it will give you so freedom from glasses but will never make your vision the same as when you were 20.

I have monovision myself at the moment. Early days but it's okay.

Obviously surgery can't reverse presbyopia any more than it reverses myopia but it does treat it. Just giving info that the OP might be interested in.

Tisserand

maryrourke wrote: »

My sight is beginning to fail. Are these glasses/things with lots of holes any good to strengthen sight?

Mary

HI, I'd be interested in getting a pair of those glasses with the holes in the lens. I knew somebody in Holland years ago whose child was wearing them - do you know where I could get them here in Ireland?

Daisies

Mousewar wrote: »

I have monovision myself at the moment. Early days but it's okay.

Obviously surgery can't reverse presbyopia any more than it reverses myopia but it does treat it. Just giving info that the OP might be interested in.

/Technically/ laser does reverse myopia as myopia is due to the power of the eye being too strong and if you reduce the power of the cornea, by flattening it, you effectively reverse the myopia that was present. However as presbyopia is due to a loss of flexibility of the lens inside the eye, laser cannot reverse it.

Mousewar

Daisies wrote: »

/Technically/ laser does reverse myopia as myopia is due to the power of the eye being too strong and if you reduce the power of the cornea, by flattening it, you effectively reverse the myopia that was present. However as presbyopia is due to a loss of flexibility of the lens inside the eye, laser cannot reverse it.

Well we're getting very technical here but myopia is caused by (in most cases) stretching of the eye so that light no longer focuses properly on the retina. Laser can't reverse this - it simply caters for it by altering the cornea so that light is made to focus on where the retina actually is in a stretched eyeball. I don't think you can call that reversing myopia on the definition you're using. It's treating it.
And that's pretty much the same theory with surgery for presbyopia. It won't reverse but it treats - just not as effectively as it seems to do for myopia.