Ban Eyeglasses

[Jack]

I've read several studies where if you simply allow your eyes time to adjust to visiaul changes they will. Unfortunately, we in this society are quick to rush to a quick fix, and put a crutch in front of our eyes instead. What ends up happening is that our eyes get "dependent" on the lenses, and once this dependency is created, it's difficult to wean one from glasses, as the eyes have already adjusted to the help of the crutch.

It's been suggested, not to give your children eyeglasses, but instead to allow them to do eye exercises and a variety of other techniques to improve eye muscle function. What do you think?

[Faith]

It might of helped me. I started wearing eyeglasses when I was in 5th grade. My vision wasn't even that bad but it wasn't perfect. Over the years my eyes have gotten worse each year. I feel like I am blind and can't do anything until I have my contacts in. When I started with eye correction my vision was
-1.00 and now today my contacts are -4.00. A huge difference. Maybe eye exercises and carrot juice would have been a better option.

[Patrick]

You know Jack, I've actually heard of many optometrists pushing this across the United States. They state that glasses only cause dependency on the part of developing eye muscles. By putting these crutches in front of the eye, it never allows the growing muscles to adapt fast enough to the long term. There might be something to that. For now though, the quick fix is earning eye docs tons of money and Lasik specialists even more money.

[Midtowner]

I read and write for a living. The quick fix is all that I can possibly use.

[Keith]

You know Jack, I've actually heard of many optometrists pushing this across the United States. They state that glasses only cause dependency on the part of developing eye muscles. By putting these crutches in front of the eye, it never allows the growing muscles to adapt fast enough to the long term. There might be something to that. For now though, the quick fix is earning eye docs tons of money and Lasik specialists even more money.

I didn't start wearing glasses until I was 21. That was 23 years ago. The doctor told me at the time that I only needed to wear them when I was writing or driving. Guess what? At the time I got my glasses, I was a traveling salesman. All I did was drive and write.

Now, they are just a part of me.
Oh well, Patrick told me I looked great and sophisticated with them on.

[MadMonk]

I didn't get glasses until I was 23. I noticed I was having more difficulty reading streesigns at night. I'm 20-30 in my right (dominant) eye and about 20-40 in my left. It due to astigmatism. I don't see how continuing like I was would have led to better eyesight. Maybe there are certain eye muscle exercises that could help though.

Has any of our bespectacled members checked out the "See Clearly Method" I hear so much about on talk radio? Does it work?

[Oki_Man5]

When one's arms get too short for one to clearly see a newspaper to read it, and other small print media becomes unreadable, one should get the idea that his/her eyes' ablity to keep up with his/her age has failed.

One can keep getting the headaches and dizziness while his/her eyes catch up (which I do not think will ever happen.), or he/she can get glasses, contacts, or lasix.

[gbyte]

It's been suggested, not to give your children eyeglasses, but instead to allow them to do eye exercises and a variety of other techniques to improve eye muscle function. What do you think?

As a kid when they first started suggested using eyeglasses (must've been back around the 1st / 2nd grade or so) they had me do tons of eye exercises but they actually did not help in the least for my eyesight.

If they try to do this they need to make sure to do alot of monitoring of the eyesight to see if it helps at all and they need to find ways to have some sort of short-duration test of it. The bad thing is that usually monitoring of eyesight as often to check progress means more appointments with the optometrist and much more money spent which is not necessarily a good thing for alot of people due to how insurance allows their optometrist visits. To be able to push this across I think the optometrists would have to get insurance buy-in somehow.

[Patrick]

Oh well, Patrick told me I looked great and sophisticated with them on.

Yup, that's right. JK!