Can your eyes get better?

[Studyinghard]

Any eye experts in here 8-)?

I had my eyes tested around 2 years ago and it showed that I was short sighted and had a reading of -1.75 in my right eye and -2.0 in left eye and today went for another check which showed that my eye sight had become better by 0.5 on both eyes.

Is that even possible?

[the.watchman]

Any eye experts in here 8-)?

I had my eyes tested around 2 years ago and it showed that I was short sighted and had a reading of -1.75 in my right eye and -2.0 in left eye and today went for another check which showed that my eye sight had become better by 0.5 on both eyes.

Is that even possible?

Dunno, maybe they made a mistake in one (or both) of the tests?

[Studyinghard]

It can improve? hm didn't know about that. I guess there could have been little things that could have changed the outcome anyway because on the day of my first testing I was playing games right before I went for the test but today I went out into the sunlight and sort "cleared" my eyes up but I didnt think it would make that much of a difference

[brightsky]

Yeah I find that after going out in the sunlight (without glasses) or in the pool, my eyesight actually gets better. I don't know if short-sightedness can actually "get better" in any way (mine's just gone worse), but I've heard of a lot of people having pseudomyopia, where you go suddenly short-sighted but it isn't really short-sightedness. Have a read of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomyopia

[schmalex]

Short-sightedness almost always improves, and long-sightedness gets worse.

[brightsky]

Short-sightedness almost always improves, and long-sightedness gets worse.

Are you sure? I might have some chances in the future to improve my eyes then!

But by personal experience up to this stage, my eyes have gone from -0.5 on both eyes to nearly -2.0.

[Studyinghard]

Short-sightedness almost always improves, and long-sightedness gets worse.

Are you sure? I might have some chances in the future to improve my eyes then!

But by personal experience up to this stage, my eyes have gone from -0.5 on both eyes to nearly -2.0.

Yeah same with my cousin. He went from -1.75 in both eyes to -2.75. Although at the time we both used to play the same game but then right after I found out about my eye sight I stopped playing from that very moment but he kept playing so maybe that had something to do with it?

[brightsky]

Yeah, I guess it has. But sticking my eyes in front of the computer is compulsory for me...my school's a computer-based school...

[squance]

Yeah, I guess it has. But sticking my eyes in front of the computer is compulsory for me...my school's a computer-based school...

Maybe I should stop using my laptop for a while. Maybe my eyes might get better that way.

[Studyinghard]

Yeah, I guess it has. But sticking my eyes in front of the computer is compulsory for me...my school's a computer-based school...

Maybe I should stop using my laptop for a while. Maybe my eyes might get better that way.

Well actually its not that I stopped using the computer but just stopped playing games for around a year which I supposed help a lot. I dont know maybe the optometrist got the check up wrong but does that happen often :S?

I still use the computer every day though but not for like hours on end. 

[schmalex]

http://ask.metafilter.com/76846/Myopia-reduction-with-age

[Gloamglozer]

On a slightly different note, isn't short sightedness hereditary? 

[Edmund]

My left eye went from -3.75 to -3.00

Right eye didn't change though (-3.50)

[physics]

hmmm LOL short sighted is when you can;t see far right? and long sighted is for seeing close how ironic ..i think personally

[brightsky]

On a slightly different note, isn't short sightedness hereditary?  

Yeah, in most cases. If you're mother or father's short-sighted, good chance you will be. But its confusing, cos the doctor said I probably got it from my grandma. Complicated genetics....><