“Do glasses help eye strain?”
I am a 25 year old female. I have eye strain and stopped wearing contacts. Do glasses help eye strain?
6 Answers
Eye strain is a nebulous term. It depends on your refraction. Go get examined.
Yes, especially if you require a prescription.
Yes. Particularly when attempting to read at night when you are nearing forty years old. Your Ciliary Muscles at that age do not function as well to allow your natural lens to become as spherical as you need for reading. That causes these muscles to strain which is the symptom you notice more and more each year as the lens hardens eventually darkening and becoming a dense cataract in one or two decades or less.
Glasses which are set for your reading distance will allow you more comfort for a year or two but then need to be increased in power. Sometimes bifocals are needed. In these cases, a certain power is needed for distance clarity and another power necessary to read up close.
Eventually, the lens is clouded enough that neither distance or reading vision with lenses is good enough.
That is when you should see an ophthalmologist. Many times he recommends Cataract surgery with lens replacement.
Roger Ohanesian MD
Glasses which are set for your reading distance will allow you more comfort for a year or two but then need to be increased in power. Sometimes bifocals are needed. In these cases, a certain power is needed for distance clarity and another power necessary to read up close.
Eventually, the lens is clouded enough that neither distance or reading vision with lenses is good enough.
That is when you should see an ophthalmologist. Many times he recommends Cataract surgery with lens replacement.
Roger Ohanesian MD
Yes. Talk to your doctor or optician to see what type(s) of lenses would be best for you and the specific tasks that are giving you problems.
They help if you have refractive errors
Yes if you have the right prescription.
