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Presbyopia in a hyperope?

  • 14-08-2017 8:32am
    #1
    FinrinLobrich
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭


    I'm a 32 years old male and I'm longsighted with astigmatism. My prescription's mild:

    R: Sph +1.25, Cyl -0.50, Axis 110
    L: Sph +1.50, Cyl -0.75, Axis 30

    In the last 6 months or so I've found my eyes tire regularly and everything goes out of focus at all distances. I've to wear my glasses more or I get a lot of eye strain and headaches, which I haven't had like this for some years. When I put on my glasses I can see clearly. It's like my eyes can't focus anymore. I usually can get away without my glasses for walking around when they can focus - I have some trouble seeing faces clearly in the distance and I have difficulty in dim light. I think this is the astigmatism more than my long sightedness.

    However I find I need them more now to go about and for eyestrain in the distance as well as for up close. I couldn't use a computer without them even before this. When I put them on everything's much clearer and brighter.

    I'm aware that long sighted people can develop presbyopia (age-related long-sightedness) earlier.

    A few questions:

    1. Would this be the start of presbyopia?

    2. What way does presbyopia usually affect people who are already long sighted?

    3. Will I need stronger glasses or varifocals next?

    4. Will my prescription change much when I develop presbyopia and need correction?

    Thank you


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  • #2
    Arbie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭Arbie


    FinrinLobrich wrote: »
    I'm a 32 years old male and I'm longsighted with astigmatism. My prescription's mild:

    R: Sph +1.25, Cyl -0.50, Axis 110
    L: Sph +1.50, Cyl -0.75, Axis 30

    In the last 6 months or so I've found my eyes tire regularly and everything goes out of focus at all distances. I've to wear my glasses more or I get a lot of eye strain and headaches, which I haven't had like this for some years. When I put on my glasses I can see clearly. It's like my eyes can't focus anymore. I usually can get away without my glasses for walking around when they can focus - I have some trouble seeing faces clearly in the distance and I have difficulty in dim light. I think this is the astigmatism more than my long sightedness.

    However I find I need them more now to go about and for eyestrain in the distance as well as for up close. I couldn't use a computer without them even before this. When I put them on everything's much clearer and brighter.

    I'm aware that long sighted people can develop presbyopia (age-related long-sightedness) earlier.

    A few questions:

    1. Would this be the start of presbyopia?

    2. What way does presbyopia usually affect people who are already long sighted?

    3. Will I need stronger glasses or varifocals next?

    4. Will my prescription change much when I develop presbyopia and need correction?

    Thank you

    32 is very young to become presbyopic. Hypermetropic (longsighted) people do become presbyopic a bit earlier, but your prescription is so low that it is highly unlikely. When you do become presbyopic you can get separate reading glasses, or bifocals or varifocals. But that is a few years off for you yet!

    You sound like you have put a lot of thought into this, so it would be worth chatting to your optometrist for reassurance/advice, particularly if you haven't had a vision check in the past couple of years.


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