r/myopia

Genuine question from someone who just ordered online for the first time.

Background: I've always gone to an optician, always paid whatever they charged, never really questioned it. Recently tried ordering online for the first time mostly because the price difference was too hard to ignore my last pair from an optician was $340, this one came to $20 total through Eydology.

They feel right to me. No headache after a full day of screen work, no eyestrain, everything looks sharp. But I realize "feels right" isn't exactly a scientific measurement.

At the optician there's always that whole process, the chair, the machine, the "better with 1 or 2". and at the end you walk out with some confidence that someone checked everything. With online you're kind of just... trusting the process and hoping your prescription was filled correctly.

So how do you actually verify? Is there a way to check at home, or do you just go back to an optometrist and have them measure? Has anyone had an experience where the prescription was clearly off and how did you know?

Asking because I want to keep ordering online but also want to make sure I'm not slowly damaging my eyes by wearing something slightly wrong.

When will things get better

I always had this bad habit: I let myself wear my two-week lenses for about an extra week, so I never really tracked when I started or when I should take them out.

Now my eyes get dry, so I started paying more attention — writing the start date and the change date in my phone notes. But sometimes I forgot to write it down, and then I had no idea when to swap them.

So I just vibe-coded a little app with a widget for myself — my wife is a designer, so she helped make it look nice (the apps in the App Store didn't really do it for me design-wise). Since I already built it, I'd love to hear what you'd want to see in an app like this. I'll do my best to add it and share it with you — and the core features will always stay free.

hey r/myopia

i have been suffering from high mypio since my childhood. now i am 30. on 2018 i have digonised wet macular degeneration and i had to take several shot of injections.and had barrage laser to both of my eyes.. now my on my right eye i have early forming of cataract. doctor told me for cataract operation. what should i do with this condition of my eyes?

Hi everyone!

Has anyone experienced side effect with atropine eyedrops when used everyday? (0,01%) and do you use the eyedrops combined with eyeglasses like stellest or regular glasses? Our doctor says there is no need for the stellest glasses if we use the drops. Also, curious if anyone had side effect like nightmares, feeling hot and cold, shivers etc. with the drops. Thank you!

This post is going to be sounding very harsh but why do I keep seeing a lot of people on this sub calling their mid-high myopia as a disability when a pair of glasses can instantly fix the vision? (In not talking about people with other issues). In real life, I see plenty of people - very successful people go on in their lives wearing very thick prescriptions. So why do some people think they're going blind? The only fear I have regarding my glasses is that if they slip down somehow and break while I'm climbing a mountain or something because once my father's glasses (low power) did fall down like that. Thankfully that didn't happen until now. Also it's not a big problem to do daily chores unless one is in contact sports or swimming.

My eye vision is 6/9

I'm preparing for an exam that includes medical examination of eyes (it requires 6/6 vision)

Can i improve my vision from 6/9 to 6/6 in one year?

i know this sub skews younger but i'm 58 and have been severely myopic since i was a kid. started mapping out retirement healthcare costs with my advisor recently and vision was the one area i genuinely had not thought through. been on employer coverage so long i just never questioned it. this is not a small gap. my prescription is strong enough that getting the right lenses is not cheap. progressive lenses at my prescription level are expensive and i go through a new pair every couple of years. losing employer coverage and having nothing replace it is a real cost. most of what i find online is generic and not really written for people with prescriptions on the higher end of the scale.

Im 22 years old and currently at -6.5. I’ve had my eyesight checked every year since I was 12, and every year it keeps getting worse. I was at -4.5 when I was 18, so my myopia has progressed by 2 diopters in 4 years, the same rate of progression I had during my teenage years. The doctors keep telling me that everything is fine and that my myopia will stabilize soon. Like, wtf? That turned out to be complete bullshit and they’ve been telling me that for about five years. What am I supposed to do in this situation? It seems like my myopia isn’t going to stop anytime soon. Will I become blinde? My life is already pretty much shit because of my eyesight problem

Hi,

I am looking for advice. I feel that my future is dumped because of my worse eyes.

I have a -9 nearsighted both eyes and -1.25 astigmatism both eyes. My condition has been getting worse for years and I still feel it getting worse (even though, it still persis around -9 and -1.25). I am 28 years old now, a junior researcher working a lot with computer.

I have checked my eyes regularly for the past three years, like every 3-6 months. The problem is that I have a persistent eye irritation whenever I wear the glasses. Usually I change the glass to better fit my eyes after seeing doctor, but It is usually comfortable for a week and then become irritation again. I also try to do morning/evening exercise more frequently and reduce eye expose to computer, but it did not work.

Irritation here means I feel headache, dry eye, eye stretching, etc,, not comfortable until I remove the glasses.

I guess my glasses is the root cause. I have tried to use glasses that match my eyes or lighter degree (e.g., -0.5 myopia, -0.5 astigmatism) it did not work too.

I have been asking and been checked almost all eye examination, the doctors have not found any potential issues on my eyes.

I have no idea how to control the irritation of my eye when wearing glasses. Any folks help me please 🥺 🥺 🥺

Hey everyone,I’m 15 years old and I’m in a really bad situation with my eyesight. For a while now, I’ve been using my phone for over 10+ hours every single day.My eyesight started getting bad enough that I had to get glasses last year. But since then, my vision has just kept getting worse and worse. Right now, it is getting scary. I had to turn the text size on my phone up to MAX just to read it, but even at arm's length, the screen is still quite blurry.My last eye exam was about a year ago. I know I need to see a doctor, but I’m really stressed out.Is this permanent, or is it just extreme muscle fatigue/strain from the 10+ hours of screen time?Can my eyes still recover if I cut down my screen time right now?Are there treatments that can stop this from getting worse while my eyes are still growing? (Eventually, I want to get LASIK when I'm older, so I don't want my prescription to get too bad to qualify).I don't really have hobbies outside of my phone, so any advice on how to handle this or what to tell my parents would be heavily appreciated. Thank you.

Hello please people who had flashes how they look like?Sometimes I feel like I see them but I’m not sure if it’s just the light source cause I don’t see the flash of camera juste like a rapid change of light .I have high myopia and just went to thé ophtalmologist a month ago and said retina is okay

25F India, been wearing glasses for ~10 years and finally exploring specs removal surgery. I recently had a full refractive evaluation done at Eye7 with Dr. Rahil Chaudhary and wanted to hear from people who had similar numbers/situations.

My details:

• Right eye: ~ -5.00
• Left eye: ~ -5.75
• Mild astigmatism/cylindrical component
• Corneal thickness: ~509–517 µm
• Corrected vision: 6/6
• Eye pressure normal
• Pentacam/Belin Ambrosio scores slightly borderline but still within acceptable range

What I was advised

1. ICL
2. WaveLight / Contoura Vision as a possible option as well

I’m not rushing into surgery and plan to take multiple opinions before deciding, so I’d really appreciate honest experiences from people in similar situations.

Would especially love input on:

1. If you had similar corneal thickness/power and had to choose between ICL vs Contoura/SMILE/LASIK — what did you choose and how has it been long term?

2. Any experiences specifically with Eye7 Eye Hospitals / Dr. Rahil Chaudhary / Dr. Sanjay Chaudhary for ICL or Contoura?

3. Recommendations for highly experienced Specs removal surgeons in Delhi NCR? Looking for someone who does a high volume of ICL cases, not just LASIK.

4. For people who got ICL:

• How was night vision/glare/halos?
• Any dryness issues?
• Any anxiety about having a lens implanted inside the eye?
• Would you still choose it again?

5. Did anyone here get multiple opinions where one doctor suggested LASIK/SMILE and another suggested ICL? What ultimately helped you decide?

I’m okay prioritizing safety/results over cost — just trying to make the most informed long-term decision possible.

Would really appreciate any honest experiences, good or bad. Thank you 🙏

Im wondering if theres still a risk of my eyes getting messed up for wearing contacts for a long long time. My eyes dont hurt or anything but i wear my contacts overnight and days, even weeks without taking them out.

I took my 4.5 year old son for an eye test at Specsavers. The machine initially measured him at around -2.5. They then did the eye drops and repeated the machine test and it came back around -1.25.

The optometrist then tested him using shapes and pictures. My son could read some lines with the glasses on, but then he was also reading some of the same sized lines without the glasses, which seemed to really confuse the optometrist. He manually examined his eyes and said he definitely does seem short sighted, but he kept saying he was confused about why there was not much improvement with the glasses and why my son could still read the line without them.

He spent quite a while humming and haaing and eventually said we should go with the prescription anyway because otherwise his myopia could worsen. He recommended the myopia control lenses.

On the way home though, my son kept saying the glasses actually made it harder to see compared to without them. We ended up spending about $700 and now I am really worried because I did not feel the optometrist seemed confident in the prescription at all. I am now wishing we had gone to a paediatric optometrist or somewhere more specialised as soon as Specsavers first mentioned myopia rather than continuing there.

Has anyone had a similar experience with young kids? Would you get a second opinion before the glasses are made?