Will not wearing your long-distance glasses for weeks at a time make your eyesight worse?

Question

Will not wearing your long-distance glasses for weeks at a time make your eyesight worse?

Answer 1

No . What controls vision is not muscular . It can not stengthen or weaken . It simply ages , changes with age .

Answer 2

Actually it is the opposite. When I go for a long time without glasses my eyesight gets stronger.

I've heard of exercises you can do to strengthen your vision, but I never tried them out.

Answer 3

Your eyes are cameras. If you take a camera that has a manual focus and start taking pictures, some will be IN forcus and others not. You can take thousands of pictures and it won't hurt the camera, doesn't care.

If you are farsighted, your eyes are 'weak' and you need to work to see at distance, then more work to see close.

If you are nearsighted, your eyes are stronger than normal. When you relax your focus or accommodation your focal distance will move out to the distance that corresponds to how powerful your eyes are.

If you need  -1.00 lens to see far away, then your eyes are +1.00 too strong and you are focused already at 1 meter in front of you. If you are focused at half a meter in front of you, you are +2.00 too powerful and you'd need a -2.00 lens to move that focal distance out to  "infinity" (14 feet for us). If you are focused at a third of a meter, you'd need a -3.00 lens, quarter of a meter, -4.00 lens etc.

It's just that your cameras are made to see up close. They aren't bad cameras, just up close cameras. Actually makes it much easier to read as you don't have to work to see the book or computer.

If you have a minimal degree of nearsightedness, such as -0.50 which would put your focal distance at 2 meters away (P=1/d with d in meters), you don't need to use your glasses for much as you're already focused fairly far away. Just squinting would clear things up a bit. By not wearing your Rx, you can't see clearly at distance. This might be bad for children in the street with you driving or pets, or other cars, or little old Lady's/men, but doesn't really DO anything to your eyes.

The eye exercise thing is a way to get people to somehow change the anatomy of their eyes. There's no common sense way that makes any sense at all. Take your camera, any camera. Go outside and put the thing at arms length. Then move it right and left, right and left, right and left...do this every day for an hour. You'll have to build up the time as your arms will get tired, hands too. After you've done this for a month, will the camera be stronger? will it take better pictures? How the heck moving ones' eyes in and out and up and down and right and left will make a 'large' eye normal or a small eye less strong is a stretch for me. These exercises are very helpful for people with MS or have an amblyopic eye that has weak muscles, or diabetic neuropathy or a thyroid problem or vascular insuficiency or sarcoid, or amyloidosis or (yawn)....

This orthoptics exercise program are a definite benefit, but you need someone trained in that science so that you do the correct exercise for those muscles that are weak, such as a weak 4th nerve or 6th nerve or part of the 3rd nerve which supplies innervation to the superior rectus, the medial rectus, the inferior rectus, the inferior oblique and the pupil and the ciliary body which bends the lens inside the eye.

this turned out to be a bit long winded....sorry. I'll stop now...

Answer 4

People often squint and strain when they have blurry vision in an attempt to bring clarity. These are incorrect vision habits that squeeze our eyes out of shape and give us blurry vision. We can have blurry vision and not strain, squint, stare, and diffuse. People who do this often improve their eyesight.

Our eyes are more different than cameras than alike.  You can't make an argument that 60 to 80 percent of Americans have defective eyesight by relating them to cameras.