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Why Do I See Far Blurry After I Remove My Reading Glasses?

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Theing came for eye examination, complaining of blurry near vision with existing reading glasses and blurry far vision after removing reading glasses.

Vision without glasses:
R: 6/6
L: 6/6-

Power of reading glasses of 2+years:
R: +0.75
L: +1.00

Examination showed:
R: +0.50 (6/6)
L: +0.75 (6/6)
Add: +1.00 (N5@40cm)

For Theing’s far vision, she has mild longsighted power/hyperopia with power of + sign. She could see far clearly without glasses for the last 40+ years.. and why does she also start seeing far blurry these days on top seeing near blurry? 

When we were younger, our eyes/eyes muscles are still strong, our eyes can auto-correct some longsighted power and we can see clearly at far. As we enter 40s, the natural lens inside our eye is less flexible to auto-correct & auto focus for us, so now we need the help of spectacle lenses to help to see clearly.

And our eyes are very clever. 

  1. If our eyes are given the needed longsighted power, then they do not need to work that hard to help autofocus to see clearly
  2. No longsighted power is given, eyes need to do all the auto-focusing job in order to see clearly

Which one do our eyes prefer? Sure they will want the lesser work required on them. 

In young adult, if you do not wear glasses for far, but you tend to have tired/strained eyes or headache after near work/computer/hp, you probably may have some longsighted power/hyperopia for your far vision. When you do near work, not only your eyes need to do auto correct for your longsighted power, they also need to help autofocus in near task.. so this is double the workload for your eyes.. hence your near work complaint. 

Some people may not have near work complaint despite having uncorrected longsighted power and doing excessive near work, so it all depends on the reserve power or the threshold of yours. 

Visiting your nearby eye care practitioners will they be able to check & let you know the status of your eyes and to advise you accordingly.

Theing has made 2 pairs of reading glasses, as reading glasses must come handy at any given place. Normally, we will need a few pairs of reading glasses to be conveniently put at different main places where we work. The same goes for Theing. She is really very occupied, her phone kept ringing during the whole eye examination, or we may be taking a lot of her time? and these two pairs of vibrant colours won her heart – the stainless steel with plastic rim of 2011 as well as the Flexi to pair with Kodak UVBlue.

Happy to hear that the glasses are “Ok good”, Theing?

Thank you Theing for your trust & support!?