Fairfax, VA
A 29-year-old male asked:
After you wear glasses, does your eyes change or get worse to the prescription strength of your lenses? or does your eye acuity stay the same regardless if you have them on or not?
3 doctor answers • 5 doctors weighed in
Dr. Harold Peltananswered
Ophthalmology 30 years experience
A perfect eyeglass prescription will not change your eyes. Too much minus power can cause your eyes to grow longer and become more nearsighted. After age 26, prescriptions are usually stable until a person develops hardening of the lens from cataract. In young people, more time outside, decreasing near screen time, and very low dose Atropine are used to prevent progression of myopia.
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Dr. Donald Colantinoanswered
Internal Medicine 63 years experience
Wearing prescription eyeglasses does not eventually weaken or change your eyesight even if you wear the wrong eyeglasses.
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Dr. Gurmukh Singhanswered
Pathology 51 years experience
Eye glasses will not worsen your vision. Refractive error may change with time, irrespective of your glasses.
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