Does anyone have vision problems?

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I tend to focus what is straight out in front of me and not around me. This lead to me smacking into a pole (It fealt like someone had punched me in the stomach!!) and just this evening since I wasn't looking down I stepped on the dogs feet. I have a lazy eye and mom says the doctor mention I have 20/100 vision in one eye and he had to sign off on me to even get a Learners Permit. Dad has suggested time and time again to get my eyes checked but I haven't yet.

I have a very rare vision disorder that I was born with & it was not diagnosed till my senior year of high-school. I'm very nearsighted & have some color blindness & light sensitivity. My visual acuity is 20/100 as well. My condition is called "Incomplete Achromatopsia" http://www.lowvision.org/achromatopsia_ ... indnes.htm

The vision in my right eye is a lot worse than the vision my left eye. So much so, that the eye doctor determined that my brain doesn't even acknowledge my right eye anymore. When drawing or writing, I always tilt the paper to line up with my left eye even though I don't consciously think about it. I can still see out of my right eye (somewhat), but my brain always focuses on things with my left eye. The doctor also said that neither an eyepatch nor glasses would correct the problem.

Interestingly, one of my older sisters also has this problem, so I suspect it might be hereditary. She has gone legally blind in her eye, so I expect that one day I will go blind in mine as well.

Not since I paid to stare into a high power laser!

I started wearing glasses when I was in the 3rd grade and continued to wear them up until I graduated from high school. My vision really isn't bad - I can see fine without my glasses, although my glasses do improve my vision. My vision in my left eye is very blurry and I can hardly see from it at all.

I've had photophobia for about 20 years and prefer low light. I also used to have 20/525 vision with an astigmatism but had lasik in 1999. It was the best impulsive thing I've ever done. I heard an ad on the radio and two weeks later had the surgery. I've not regretted it for one second. Now I have 20/15.

Well I wear glasses if that's what you mean.

Either I'm getting better at not screwing up eye exams, or my eyesight is getting much worse over the years.

It was weird getting my most recent pair, because like I said, I kind of screwed up the one before (my face wasn't all the way forward) and I wore them for like three or four years before they broke and I finally decided I needed a new pair. So when I got my new pair, looking at things took a lot more work, because I actually had to concentrate to focus my eyes. I guess the muscles just got weak from disuse...

I'm all better now, but I feel kind of helpless and cross-eyed when I take them back off.

Sometimes I kind of feel like if I'm not wearing them, and I have trouble seeing other people, it will, in turn, make it harder for other people to see me...but I know that's not actually how it works

Would be nice, though

Last edited by SabbraCadabra on 20 Oct 2010, 2:30 am, edited 1 time in total.

I wear glasses so yeah.

yup, my vision is 20/400

... luckily they found contact lenses in my prescription though

I've worn glasses since I was 7. Without them I can see color, but not shape, unless I am about 2 inches from the object I am looking at.

I have high amounts of astigmatism and dry eyes, and contacts never seemed to work well for me.

I was thinking about putting aside a certain amount of money every month to save up to get LASIK.

I've worn glasses sense I started school but they only help for distance & they don't help like they help most people. I have $h!t vision without em & I only have slithery better $h!t vision for distance with em. They do NOT help for up close stuff & it's proablly better if I don't wear em for close stuff so I mostly only wear em when I go to the movies or for school/work(when I was in school & working)

Hmm.. I had great vision until I went to see a doctor about a black dot I've always had in my vision - different from a floater in that it's location is very stable and predictable. She decided I had the potential to suffer glaucoma base don my eye structure, and convinced me with a big toothy smile to have a laser irridotomy proceedure. In both eyes on the same day.

Biggest mistake of my life. For the last 7? years I've been staring at horizontal scratch marks every time I look at a screen (computer/movie) or window (dark room to light) the wrong way (ie - looking straight ahead or up). Two marks in each eye, all the way across. Incidently the black dot was never identified, and from my pursuant attempts to identify or solve the "scratch marks" (which consumed me for a long time) I've been asked not to approach said doctor or bother the college of eye $#@%s anymore.

(Yes I tried for a few second opinions, but no other eye doctors would talk to me about another doctor's surgery. They just say "go back to the one who did the proceedure".)

When I was 5 years old I had surgery on my eyes to correct "lazy eyes", it was successful. Although now that I'm older, I have such poor vision.. I cannot see without my glasses, and sometimes my eye focus will zone out and everything will be blurry until I concentrate again. I've tried contacts but I can feel them in my eyes.. so, glasses are what I wear.

I have Myopia and Amblyopia and I wear glasses/lenses. I know what means f.e. "20/100", but I don't know how to convert it to dioptres. I can tell I'm -8D, but I don't know how much x/y has person with the same vision in USA.

I wear glasses too. But every time I am going to the ophthalmologist, I already know the letters I have to read because he never changes them...
(I am from France so I don't know if it is the same system in America).

Does wearing glasses count? If so, then yes. And I need a new presciption every year.