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Will my eyesight with contacts get worse once my eyes get used to glasses?

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It should not: Glasses and contact lenses achieve the same goal - providing the prescrition necessary to correct your vision. Although the actual prescriptions may be a little different, if both your glasses and contacts are updated, neither should cause your vision to be worse when you use the other.

Dr Villaplana and another doctor agreed

Answered 11/9/2012

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