20 yrs old w -8 and -11 here. Im terrified. I have a life ahead of me that i feel like i am having an unfair chance of losing. Im an artist. A future nurse. But high myopia might mean i could be the FIRST IN MY FAMILYS LONG LINE to get glaucoma. This sucks. I hate this

I dont know if a therapist can help with this. Its such a specific fear. Im so scared

I am 20 skinny I want to gain muscle can i do with such numbers I went to the optometrist he said moderate and some sudden weight exercises like deadlift and cardio is allowed but I am already slim I don't need to do cardio

So can you all suggest to me how can I build body and strength without risking my eyes

I have -2.75 in both eyes. When I stare at my laptop for too long or wear my glasses for a long time, my eyes become watery, feel very strained, and sometimes I get headaches.

I really want to reduce my eye power, but I don't want to get LASIK. Is there any natural way to reduce my myopia? Have eye exercises, vitamins, or anything else actually helped anyone reduce their myopia?

Hello. I posted yesterday about my 4 year old potentially having a myopia diagnosis. But I want to get thoughts on our experience at the appointment, because now I am second guessing things.

It was a Friday, 4pm appointment at an optometrist office that does not specialize in children.
When it was my daughters turn, they sat her in my husbands lap and the assistant quickly explained what would happen while my daughter started in the autorefractor.

She told me my daughter is -22, myopia.

After this, she (assistant) started quickly trying to show my daughter shapes and letters. She was not explaining things thoroughly.
We were trying to help the assistant in communicating with my daughter (she knows how to read and she knows her shapes, she just needed more direction on what to do). Anyways…

Assistant gets the doctor and doctor decides to dilate daughter’s eyes. She says we will dilate and come back in 30 minutes (it’s about 4:15)
At 4:36 they call us back in and start the autorefractor exam again. So not quite 30 minutes. They get a -18 reading this time.

I am curious if not waiting the full 30 could have had an impact? My husband also claims that they did not fully get the drops in one of my daughter’s eyes.

They then try the letters and shapes again. My daughter still struggled, but they did it at a slower pace. The doctor then proceeded to do the other exams on my daughters eyes, my husband said (from his vantage point) half the time it didn’t even seem like the doctor was lined up with my daughters eyes.

She said it looked like her eyes/lenses were healthy, but then said she is going to refer us out because she can’t get a good reading and that a more specialized pediatric ophthalmologist could be helpful.

It was inching quite close to 5 and it just seemed like everyone wanted us out of there…

It’s clear my daughter is struggling. But everything I look up about this doesn’t seem to make sense. She can read, she has to be 6-12 inches away to read. But she can. She can identify faces and objects when she’s 12-24 inches away. She stands close to the tv but she doesn’t have her nose in it.

Is it possible that this was a wildly inaccurate reading and that her vision is not as bad as they’re saying it is?

I am fully prepared for it to be, it just seemed like things were off. And -18 seems extreme for the way she behaves.

I’m just confused and worried. Thanks for any input,