Im Nearsighted and my glasses make things up close blurry. Why?

Question

I cannot see things far away. Such as street signs or movie theater screens. My new glasses help very much with this, however, they make my everything up close look blurry and worse than normal. Is this suppost to happen?

Answer 1

I noticed that a couple of people have already mentioned it but I'll add from my own personal experiences. I'm 49 and am severely nearsighted. I have not noticed presbyopia when I'm wearing my regular glasses or when I'm not wearing any sort of corrective lenses at all. I do have a problem when I wear my contact lenses. I can't see as well close up when I'm wearing them as I can with my glasses or with nothing on. I do have a very slight case of astigmatism, which my eyecare professional tells me is being made worse with the contact lenses. Still, I can read small print with my contact lenses if I'm reading it in strong light. I can't read it at all in low light or in a darkened room. However, I can remove my contacts and read the print just fine.

Answer 2

All distance corrections way over correct up close. People who wear their distance corrections for up close work quite often lose their up close vision.

The typical solution solution for people in this situation is no line bifocals or progressive lenses. Both are very stressful on the visual system and can increase the pace of increasing prescriptions. Another typical solution is monovision where one eye is prescribed for up close and one eye is prescribed for the distance. This solution is also very hard on the visual system.

Answer 3

3 possible reasons come to mind....

A)...You are approaching 40 and are starting to be affected by presbyopia, where the lens of the eye has trouble to focus up close....which means you are just about due for bifocals.

B)..If you are not  nearing 40, then maybe your prescription has increased a fair amount from your last glasses , and it will just take awhile for your eyes to be able to focus up close with them on again.

C) Or , finally...your Rx could be a bit too strong for you.

If you aren't nearing the 40 mark, and it doesn't get better within a few days, you should go back to the Dr....it isn't normal.

Answer 4

Well, if you are nearing age 40, then your eyes are becoming presbyopic (it's a normal process of aging) which means that they won't be able to focus up close (think of it this way: in shortsightness your normal focus is actually closer - thus you can still see up close).

Another possibility is that you have some uncorrected astigmatism in those new glasses, or that you have been given a perscription that is a little too high.

The last thing that I can think of is that perhaps your new glasses' lens is not shaped the same as the old now, and the eyes need some time to get used to that new lens shape.

You should consult your opthamologist and solve this problem.

Answer 5

Chances are that your optometrist gave you a distance only prescription because that is all that you needed.  Try reading or doing computer work without your glasses on, this should help.  If you do have astigmatism, where your eye is not a perfect sphere (many people have this), you may need some time to adjust.  However, if the blur does not go away within the first two weeks, schedule another appointment with your eye doctor.

Answer 6

You might need bifocals. Many think only old people wear bifocals but that is not true. With the no line bifocals now no knows who does or doe snot wear them.