How Common Is It for Vision in One Eye to Improve for a 30-year-old Person?
April 24th, 2011 | See the Top Answers to this Question Below
My prescription has remained consistent at -3.75 for every eye exam I’ve had since I was a teenager, (at multiple optometrists). That is, until now. My latest eye exam (at a new optometrist) resulted in a prescription that is LESS strong for one of my eyes. How common is it for vision to actually improve at this age? Is it more likely that I just wasn’t very accurate when comparing the "which is better" choices during my exam?
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As a young myope (you are nearsighted), you can be slightly overcorrected and often show no symptoms. This is because a younger individual’s ciliary muscles can still focus like mad. Many people are slightly over-corrected because of this, and feel that things are not as sharp unless they are slightly over-minused/under-plussed. (I make the analogy of drag racing: You can take off a lot quicker if you have one foot slightly on the accelerator and one on the brake, than if you just had one on the brake and were idling.)
That is all well and good until your focusing ability drops a little. Then it becomes tougher to take the extra minus in your lenses. A power drop is very common around the late 30′s or early 40′s, but I have also seen it with a careful refraction in patients your age.
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