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Yep, stop wearing them

I have perfect vision😳👁👁☺, and no, myopia has NEVER been a teenage thing! They say it's spreading worldwide rapidly, among people of all ages! My best friend has been myopic since he was less than 8 years old, the age he got his first glasses🤓. I'm just so glad I'm 55 & I've still never had or needed glasses!😍😌

It can happen, just more often starting around 8-10 rather than in your late 20s! Some patients are late bloomers. But realistically spending more time outdoors and less time on the screens might help to reduce some elements of "transient" myopia.

@@lumenoptometric That's what I've always said! I've always enjoyed more time outdoors, and less time at the screen. Therefore, perfect eyesight!😳👀😍

@@lumenoptometric But can the glasses I'm wearing make myopia worse?

@@4TheLoveOfThese2Eyes we dont care bud.

It's best to make sure you have a yearly dilation to check for holes, tears, and detachments of the retina!

We've seen eyes north of 29mm!

Very mild prescriptions such as -0.5 can fluctuate towards zero over time. If it was a -5.00, that's another story!

There is some truth to that.

Eye strain so yea ig

It's true. Near activities can increase myopia progression.

Ortho-k might be what you're looking for. Some caveats exist, though. There are no studies involving slowing myopia for adults, but optically the effect is the same as for kids. Theoretically if adult eyes elongate for the same reasons as children's eyes, a treatment method such as orthokeratology would be something worth looking into.

LASIK.

For simplification, we use the term camera because it's easier to understand. But, your point makes sense so thank you.

Yes, it can be corrected with glasses, soft contacts, ortho-k, or scleral lenses. With ortho-k, the quality of your vision will greatly depend on the quality of your tears, your sleep quantity, and your sleep quality. But the upper limit of 100% custom OK correction is around -10 or -11, with standard OK's upper limit being around 5D.

No, undercorrection has been demonstrated in studies to also worsen the eyes.

​@@lumenoptometric But my personal experience from my age of 6 already developed myopia, getting worse year and year until I decided to try +.75 undercorrection around my age of 20, and it stoped getting worse for years. That time I learnt if we use computer work closely daily. it is better to get a pair of undercorrction glasses. and it really help to relax my eyes from long hour office working. Maybe this does not apply on children

​@@lumenoptometricthen what should we dooo

Genetics set the foundation and may be one of the drivers of that initial, larger growth.

That we're unsure of! It may only be one factor among many that I hope researchers will better understand in the coming decade.

can you tell me what to do?

It can be for anybody

Ortho-k can be used to treat post-LASIK blur, but as for the HOAs, it's tough to say due to the variation in how eyes respond to the laser. One specialty lens that works specifically to treat HOAs is the ARES Scleral Lens from Ovitz, which we also fit at our office. In the coming months we'll have an updated scleral lens page with significantly more information regarding that lens. If you have any other questions, please reach out to our office or another ARES office local to you.

I got back from 20/60, to naked eye 20/20. Yes, you are right. I am jumping for joy!

congrats @@otiebrown9999

😂

Blue light glasses

I have found that, at 20/60, I can wear a plus 2 lens, for all my close work. Then slowly, my Snellen clears to 20/40. Passes FAA PRIVATE Pilot license. Then, more plus, and slowly the 20/20 line is clear. This is a refractive change of from -1 Diopters, to +0.5 Diopters. The process is comfortable for me.

Don’t wear glasses on your phone unless your myopia is too high, so just wear the weakest ones you can see the screen with, so differentials. Then just do endmyopia

Blue light filter in the phone 😊😊😊

If you need glasses, it is always important to wear them, especially if safety is a concern (such as driving). Not wearing glasses and seeing blurry can also worsen your vision as a child/teen. Even though it sounds like a lose-lose situation, there are ways around it with special types of lenses.

@@lumenoptometric no for me my vision is not that bad i can see but if we were outside like park we can remove our glasses right

@@glamgirl5068 Yes, You're Right ! But we're destroying our vision ourselves by using Smartphones, PC, etc. We've to reduce the screen time. I got prescription glasses 4 months ago, I've been following max 3 hours per day screen time & No Use of screen after 9 pm. Vision improved a bit.

@@lumenoptometric Or just do endmyopia. So yeah wear glasses only for distance but reduce it a bit and do active focusing And wear way weaker glasses for up close if you have moderate to high myopia.

@@user-sq4ko8jx4k also, NEVER GO ON YOUR PHONE WITH GLASSES. Also, learn active focusing

This may be one of the elements of that, but there are quite a few other things that can lead to your vision slightly worsening over time. Look for something called "presbyopia."

@@lumenoptometric I can't see when it's so close, or it's too far I can't see a face without eyeglass, I think it's about 600 eye grade now pls help

@@10_98L do endmyopia if you’re nearsighted

You're welcome! We can ask Virginia if she'd like to make a follow-up. And good luck to your brother! The good news is that if he is diagnosed with keratoconus, the prognosis in 2021 is great since we have corneal crosslinking and scleral lenses that correct higher order aberrations. Contact us at info@lumenoptometric.com if you have any questions.

@@lumenoptometric Thanks so much for the reply and again useful information. I am in Australia and hope this applies here too and will be in contact if needs be after tomorrow! Much appreciated :)

Hey there, here is a summary of many studies over the past decade testing traditional single vision lenses (what most kids wear) versus other corrective methods thought to slow myopia. In terms of experimental design, single vision lenses are always the "control" because it's a universally-accepted fact amongst researchers/practitioners that normal single-vision glasses worsen eyes. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3624048/ For more of a fun study, this one actually used lenses to purposefully cause monkey eyes to grow asymmetrically. This one's a little difficult to parse, but what they did was insert lenses into monkey's eyes where half of the lens had myopic correction and the other half didn't. Half of the eye that "saw" through the myopic lens grew longer, whereas the other half didn't. Dr. Earl Smith's research was the first time researchers were able to manipulate at-will the eye's length with lenses. Hopefully this helps.

@@lumenoptometric Thank you so much. Very helpful

​@@strong1134 Hello Strong, This topic is a little bit more complicated and we only tried to scratch the surface with this video (we simplified some of the terms for simplicity as well). Unfortunately we can't optically engineer our eyes to reverse the axial growth. Doctors have documented it from time to time, but there are no large-scale, mass reviewed studies. We aim to slow or significantly stop the progression, but I'm not aware of anyone promising to reverse it. Myopia, under most conditions, is inherited. To better understand these concepts, you may inquire to see if any local eye doctors hold any seminars regarding myopia progression. Again, do remember that some of the terms of the video are an oversimplification of optical correction, so other doctors may choose to explain it in a slightly different way.

You are 100% correct, as science.

@@lumenoptometric You are correct. I use this reference in my publications.