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One eye short-sighted and one long-sighted

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Does anyone else suffer from this?

I went to the optician for the annual eye test and my prescription has changed. It now turns out that one eye is short-sighted and the other is long-sighted.

The optician believes this is what has caused my headaches. Still no change after wearing the glasses.

I was told it was unusual and i should only wear the glasses when required ( TV-looking at boards- driving and reading).

If you do suffer from this, do you get headaches?

Do you wear the glasses all of the time?

Reply 1

ArchedEdge

15

My dad has this, I've just got two short sighted eyes

He wears his glasses only when he's reading, but otherwise he's fine.

He has an odd tendency of closing one eye and looking at something with his open, which looks pretty weird... :ninja:

Reply 2

studyboy

13

My dad has this too! But he just wears a normal spectacles all the time.

Reply 3

Mr. Inquisitive

1

Lol O.o

(no offense intended :biggrin:

)

Reply 4

HJV

16

:wtf?:

Think positively. When you want to see far, just cover one eye. When you want to read something close to you, cover the other.

Reply 5

duracell

10

I have this too... although my prescription's not as bad as it used to be [I'm now +1.00 and -1.00]
I've never had headaches.. and my glasses [and now contact lenses] just had one lens for long-sight and one for short-sight. And yeah, I wear them all the time. On any occasions that I don't wear them [if I forget, cba to put my contacts in if I'm travelling whatever] I can sort of feel the strain as it were....
Hope it helps, in some way..lol
xxx

Reply 6

spycat

thanks for putting this up, I've always had long sight in my left eye but perfect right eye vision and have just been told its now gone short sighted. The optician told me I have to wear 2 pairs of glasses but I don't really understand why, can anyone tell me if there's a way around this? I'm interested by the person who said they have a contact lense for each cos my optician seemed to think this wouldn't work! :confused:

Reply 7

makeupgeek

Mr. Inquisitive

Lol O.o

(no offense intended :biggrin:

)

LMAO....

Anyway, I'm also short-sighted in one eye and long-sighted in the other. But I don't have to wear two different pairs of glasses, I only have one pair :confused:

I don't wear them all the time though, just for classes and watching TV. I should probably wear them all the time though cuz when I'm waiting for the bus in the morning I can never see the number...I have to ask people around me what number bus is right infront of me lol.

Reply 8

geetar

16

Get lenses.

Reply 9

Satan's Whiskers

Or a monocle? :top2:

Reply 10

spycat

I think I would suit a monocle actually, I'll start a new trend. :biggrin:

Reply 11

solarcorona

Original post by 1796

Does anyone else suffer from this?

I went to the optician for the annual eye test and my prescription has changed. It now turns out that one eye is short-sighted and the other is long-sighted.

The optician believes this is what has caused my headaches. Still no change after wearing the glasses.

I was told it was unusual and i should only wear the glasses when required ( TV-looking at boards- driving and reading).

If you do suffer from this, do you get headaches?

Do you wear the glasses all of the time?

I had the same problem, we can't wear contact lenses.....but please research, ambiextious...apparently (dyor) both side of the brain work independantly, you may find you don't fit into....extrovert/introvert characteristics as both are present, again please do your own research, but I have found that I can mirror write (go to youtube for demo), just recently..I have a hobby as a graphologist, and wanted to prove that handwriting is really brainwriting...sorry is this sounds crazy, but scientific, analytical research has been behind this...

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 12

wannaB a medic

i have it too. wear glasses all the time :smile:

Reply 13

dispicable

I'm longsighted in my right eye and short sighted in the other, i don't need glasses according to my optician i have perfect 20/20 vision when i use both at the same time. Also it doesn't give me headaches

Go figure :dontknow:

Reply 14

Blazara

17

My mother has it, she doens't wear glasses 'cause they end up balancing/her brain has adjusted. Does give her headaches sometimes though..

Reply 15

SPMS

12

I think everyone 'suffers' from it to some degree.

Reply 16

salemwatts

I just had my eyes tested because I was having headaches and the GP suggested an eye test and low and behold I am like you. It is pretty mild R -0.25 and L +0.25.
But the headaches seem to be common symptom of this problem.

Reply 17

tooconfusedforyou

Original post by 1796

Does anyone else suffer from this?

I went to the optician for the annual eye test and my prescription has changed. It now turns out that one eye is short-sighted and the other is long-sighted.

The optician believes this is what has caused my headaches. Still no change after wearing the glasses.

I was told it was unusual and i should only wear the glasses when required ( TV-looking at boards- driving and reading).

If you do suffer from this, do you get headaches?

Do you wear the glasses all of the time?

I am also short-sighted in one eye and long-sited in the other. Ever since I was a child I would get headaches every single day. The doctors tested for all sorts of things and even made me stop eating cheese and chocolate for a while. None of this solved anything though I still had headaches every single day. When I was about 10 I went to have my annual checkup at the opticians and they found out I was short-sighted and long-sighted. He also told me that it was an unusual condition and that I should wear glasses only when I need to (reading, watching tv etc). I'm now 18 and my eyesight has gotten a lot worse (perhaps due to my own fault, thinking I can go without glasses when I clearly can't). I'm completely blurry in one eye which is much worse than when I first got diagnosed. Back to the point, I still get headaches. Not every day but I definitely do mostly when I don't wear my glasses to watch tv or something. My advice is try and wear them all the time. It's completely normal to get headaches!

Reply 18

Staceycake

10

I have this. If I cover my right eye, my left eye is blurry and I can not see much or read something at a distance.
My mum has RP and is totally blind. I have to have tests every year because I am at risk of getting RP too. I don't have to wear glasses though :rolleyes:

Reply 19

Kathy89

20

My highschool best friend have it. She didn't wear glasses unless she felt she needed until her eyesight in her longsighted eye got to a level she couldn't see both distances. Shorltly after that she got contacts because glasses would give her headache. She had huge difference between her eyes then.
When we were at year 9-10 I would sometimes wear her glasses to see the board, the short sight lens was great for me to see the board and she wasn't using her glasses almost at all back than...

One eye short-sighted and one long-sighted

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