Top Stories Albuquerque

Losing one’s vision can get upsetting. In the beginning, if as standard, you begin to lose your vision at around 40 years of age, it is the first sign of approaching old age, but later as it deteriorates further, individuals begin to worry whether they will go blind.

Well, if you require spectacles at 40 then yes, it is the first sign of approaching old age, but there are not so many individuals who go totally blind now due to advancements in information concerning the eyes and how to treat impairments.

There is nothing you can do about the former difficulty, but at least two routes you can take to resolving the latter.

Most individuals ‘blindly’ follow their opticians advice and buy specs or contact lenses. This is the best option for the optician and the cheapest option for the customer in the short term. It is good for the optician because you will probably need new spectacles each two years and contact wearers have to keep purchasing contact lenses as well.

It is handy for the customer because the outlay is small if you do not go for designer frames like Gucci or Levi. In the long term, though the client pays out many, many times more than if a different procedure had been chosen.

One of these alternative courses of action is Lasik surgery. This is expensive up front, but can last for 20 years although you may still require glasses for either long or short distances. Most individuals have their long distance vision corrected and never ever have difficulties with it again, although they do still require reading spectacles.

A third option, which you may like to try instead of or in conjunction with any of the above is called Natural Vision Improvement. It has to be said that the technique of Natural Vision Improvement has more detractors than supporters, but some people regard it as a form of yoga for the eyes which cannot do any harm.

The point here though is that if you would like to attempt Natural Vision Improvement, you should still go to an optician regularly so that they can check for eye diseases like glaucoma and macular degeneration, which Natural Vision Improvement cannot hope to, nor does it claim to, cure.

Proponents of Natural Vision Improvement say that contemporary apparatus like TV screens and monitors and even living in a city where long distance eyesight is almost unnecessary because it is blocked by buildings a few yards away, have trained us to ‘see badly’.

They say that we need to relearn how to see in the right manner. They even go as far as to say that glasses and contact lenses may be part of the problem.

Here they mean that as your eyes become used to corrective lenses, they come to rely on them and so become weaker. Therefore, the next time your eyesight is measured, you will need more powerful glasses.

The Natural Vision Improvement philosophy says to use the weakest lenses that you can and make your eyes work harder. In this fashion, they insist, the next time you go for a check up, you can get weaker lenses not stronger ones until eventually you do not need spectacles at all.

Some opticians and optometrists will go with you if you want to attempt this path, but you may have to look about for one. One vital point around the Natural Vision Improvement method is that if your impaired sight could create a risk to yourself and others, you must wear standard, full-strength glasses whilst carrying out those events (like driving).

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with macular degeneration test. If you want to know more, please go to our website at Macular Degenerative Disease