Will it help my eye sight if I don't wear my glasses often?

My glasses are so I can see better far away. For example, if I'm watching the TV I can make out the shapes but I couldn't tell you the expressions of the people on the TV. When I first wake up of the mornings, and if I don't wear my glasses for a while, my eyesight seems to be better than it would if I had been wearing my glasses all day....do you understand what I'm trying to say? I do see better with my glasses, but when I take them off my eye sight is more blurry than it would be if I hadn't worn them at all....

Oh, and another question...does anyone else get a headache if they fall asleep wearing their glasses?

I know exactly what you mean. I've never heard of affecting your eyesight at all to make it better or worse. Your eyes might be just adjusting as well as they can when you don't wear them, but it may not stay like that.

I've been wearings contacts for 6 years now (I only wore glasses for 3 years), but I am the same way. If I take out my contacts, everything is really really blurry, but after I leave them out for a couple hours, things slowly start to get a little bit clearer (but not my much). In the morning, my eye sight is mostly ok, but I can't see very clearly until I put my contacts back in.

My guess is that your eyes are just adjusting the best they can, but when you wear your glasses, they don't need to adjust to anything, then when you take them off, they need to readjust all over again, making it seem like it was worse then when you put them on to begin with.

And I got headaches too when I fell asleep with my glasses on. I kinda think it was just because they were a liiiittle bit too tight and we pressing into my head. Wearing them all day was fine, but when I fell asleep with them, then they'd be pressing even longer than normal, which I wasn't used to. I don't think it had anything to do with my eyes exactly.

I recommend contacts personally, but if you are content with your glasses or can't get contacts, then just keep wearing the glasses for as long as you need during the day and then take them off when you don't need them at the end of the day. Constantly taking them on and off all day can give you a headache too.

If your glasses are for distance, you shouldn't try and read with them. Lift them up a little bit and look underneath to read, or take them off. That can strain your eyes (or that's what my optometrist told me). And from experience, I can tell you that putting them on and off continuously was worse than just wearing them the whole day.

I'm getting Lasik as soon as I can afford it though lol. Bad eyesight is a pain in the butt...

Good luck!

The people who sell eyeglasses probably wont like this, but my eyesight didnt diminish for years because I only wore my glasses when I absolutely needed. It was mostly vanity-but when I went back for a check-up-the doctor said my eyesight had improved a little. I told him what I had been doing and he said that was probably the reason. The eye is a muscle-after all and the more you exercise it-the stronger it will be. These are the doctor's words.

Well, I fall asleep a lot while reading with my glasses on, and I never really get a headache from it. No.

Conversely, in response to the first part of your question, I would get *major* headaches if I wore my glasses on again/off again. I know it's supposedly good to "exercise" your eyes (well, it is good in certain ways - by doing eye exercises, for example), but I just don't think wearing them on again/off again is really the healthiest. I know personally that it would screw with my head. I have a somewhat strong prescription (- 4.75) and am nearsighted like you: I can't drive without glasses, I can't do anything very well without glasses except perhaps read.

So I guess what I'm saying is ... if you're prone to headaches as you say, esp. behind-the-eye or tension headaches, I'm almost certain that wearing your glasses at random times will exacerbate the problem by causing you to strain and over-exert your eyes one moment, then suddenly see just fine with no effort the next (after you've put your glasses on). I know it would give me headaches. Then again, it might not bother you, especially if your prescription isn't strong. So my advice is to perhaps try it while paying close attention to how your head feels. You could also try wearing your glasses full-time and seeing if your head feels considerably better (because I bet it will).

Don't worry too much about glasses causing your eyes to progressively get worse and worse. They don't really necessarily do that. My eyes got slightly worse over my teenage years, then leveled off and even improved. It is possible to improve even while wearing your glasses all the time; you're not just going to get worse and worse until you're blind. If anything, you'll also level off and end up keeping the same prescription for a long time.

If you want to "improve," search for some eye exercises online that you can do at a set time of the day every day. That would be a better way to go than throwing the glasses on and off.

Good luck.

Hi,

Yes, cause if you do not need them you should not use them.. for reading do not use if you read well without them - for example. You put more stress on your eyes if you do.

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you get headache if you don't wear ur glasses