Re: Pain in the eye when wearing glasses - help!


acemanvx@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have been told I have presbyopia even though im only 23. I dont want
> to argue. If you say its not presbyopia, does it make a difference if
> my symptoms and purple_bov's act like presbyopia whether they actually
> are or not? We both experience a blur if things are held too close to
> our eyes.
>
> purple_bov is near plano. With her -1.25 astigmastim and -.25 sphere,
> she has a total spherical equivalent of less than -1 diopters. This is
> functional for going without glasses and legal to drive since shes
> probably 20/30 or at worst, 20/40 uncorrected. Do you know for sure
> what it is purple_bov? Ive also suggested to purple_bov getting glasses
> just to correct her astigmastim.

I'm actually not sure, but alas, I'm not legal to drive without
glasses, because my right eye did not pass the test (the left eye did).
I also find that since my astigmatism is on a nearly-horizontal axis
with my left eye, I can't read street signs when I drive without
glasses - the letters blur together.

Quite seriously, I know my optical error is mild and I don't bump into
the furniture when I walk around, but just after a week of not wearing
glasses, I'm getting a very unlovely wrinkle on my forehead from the
constant squinting. Not good.

I've started using "artificial tears" - I'm not sure if they're helping
any, or if it's the not wearing glasses, but I'm happy to report that
my left eye is now merely "tired" rather than actually painful.
Wrinkles aside, things are improving. I'm still scared to wear
glasses, though.

Now that I think more about this (and optical matters have been rather
at the forefront of my mind lately, obviously), I've had this kind of
pain before (about 2 years ago), when I got glasses with the wrong PD
(the doctor's stupid secretary wrote down the wrong number - it was off
by 10mm). I wore them for a few days because I thought my eyes "needed
to get used to them" - gave myself a pain in the eye instead. It was
the left eye then, too. Could I have strained something then, in an
effort to accommodate to the wrong prescription, and caused a
recurrence now by all the computer use?

LM

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