My eyesight is -6 for both of them.does this mean my eyes are too weak.?

Question

will my power keep increasing or there is a limit.ie what is the maximum weakness

Answer 1

-6 is pretty strong. Peoples eyes will continue to get weaker as long as they continue to use their eyes, mind, and body together incorrectly. We get blurrier vision during stressful times: school, college, telemarketing, etc. When people get into the -8+ range for many years their eyes can start to break down with macular degeneration and retinal detachment from the stress and strain of incorrect vision habits.

Peoples vision does not really stabilize, they just learn to handle life without as much stress.

Vision is not hereditary. Vision behavior, like language and other behaviors can pass from parents to children.

Our times are complicated. Those with blurry vision need to upgrade their vision software and not become dependant upon the crutches of glasses and artificial corrections.

I don't mean to hurt or offend anyone who has gotten LASIK, but it is a very bad option. LASIK is etching your prescription onto your eyeballs, permanently locking in the strain and tension that caused the blurry vision in the frirst place. As any one who has gotten increased prescriptions year after year knows, vision changes. Most people who get LASIK have blurry vision again within one to three years because LASIK doesn't address the real issues of blurry vision.

Answer 2

mine are -4.5 and I think I need to bet it bumped up, so I don't think there is a limit. Because if there was a limit no one would be blind, yes?

Answer 3

there are no rules about what  the strength of your eyes will be but if you use contacts they will change less slowly than with glasses and once you get to 45 to 50 they stabilise and maybe get less strong but you also tend to need bifocals as after that time you cant see close up too well.

a - figure indicates short sighted and its where the lens is too strong (not weak).

both my eyes are -6 and have stayed unchanged for most of last 7 years! but I use contacts rather than glasses

Answer 4

A negative prescription indicates nearsightedness, or myopia.  It actually means that the power of your cornea is too strong for the length of your eye or your eye is too long for the power of your cornea.  The image that should fall on your retina ends up in front of it, causing blur.  Six diopters is moderate to high.

Myopia usually progresses through the teens and stabilizes in the late teens or early twenties.  How myopic you become is determined by a combination of your genes and the nearwork you do as your eyes grow.  There isn't a limit for how nearsighted you can become, but lenses can correct your vision even if it gets into 20 diopters or so, but most myopes don't get nearly that high.

Your vision will change again around your 40s as you become presbyopic, losing the ability to accommodate, or change your focus to near.  Myopes are lucky in this regard because they can always bring material in closer to a point that is clear for them (although in high myopes this will be very close to the eyes).  Hope this helps. :)

Answer 5

It's just how bad you are with close view and far view. I have -3.25 and I cannot see far away for that percentage. Close up is fine for me. A lot of elders have + prescriptions and they cannot read up close either. That is why they get bifocals which have the - all round and a square on the bottom with the + to read.

Answer 6

Yes, your eye's optical power is too weak for it's length, which means it can't focus incoming light directly on the retina, instead focusing that light in front of the retina, which in turn induces blurriness. The reason for the change in your perscription is because the eye's length is increasing, so light is focused even farther away from the retina. Now, I wouldn't say there's an actual limit to how much your number can climb, but I once knew a guy with a -20 eye perscription, and he wasn't blind (well, actually he got through laser surgery which shouldn't be done above -10, and he got blind, but that's a different story) so you don't have anything to worry about. Either way, your eyes should stabilize at age 21 (if you're older than that, you should contact an opthamologist). This number has nothing to do with old people not being able to read up close (they don't actually have a number, they simply can't change their eye's focus, so they are always seeing with a distant vision focused eye).