Does your eye sight get worse if you wear glasses/contacts?

I always thought that they could strain your eyes more if youre working on computers and stuff, and i asked my eye doctor about that a couple years ago. my eye doctor said no, if anything they would slow further progression of nearsightedness. my girfriend had an appointment last week and her doctor told her not to wear glasses all the time because they deterorate your vision. who is right?

Everyone else is wrong.

You eyesight can get worse if you wear glasses or soft contact lenses. If you wear hard contact lenses, then it should stay about the same.

Your eyes change shape when your vision changes. Nearsighted eyes tend to get "flatter" while I believe farsighted eyes become more "peak"-ish. You eyes can still change when wearing glasses or soft contacts. If you wear hard contacts, they are made to fit the current shape of your eye and so your vision doesn't change. It holds your eye to the shape it is.

Both of the doctors were right though. If you are nearsighted and don't wear the glasses, you are going to get even more nearsighted very quickly. You need them to see properly. If you do wear the glasses and still sit too close to the TV/computer, then your eyes can and still will worsen.

Absolutely not!

no

Some lenses are correctional so after you wear these eyesight improves and no need to wear them. However, others its not the same gradually eyesight becomes worse. One should check on diabetics.

no, you may think that because you need to get used to the contacts or glasses, but no it helps your eyes.

No, they don't worsen it. What her doctor was probably saying was if she only wears glasses for certain things, to not wear them for everything else. For example, if she needs them to read, but that's it, wearing them could possibly strain her eyes.

no way

i've heard that the danger in wearing glasses constantly is that it causes your eyes to get lazy because you let the glasses do all the focusing for you.

no... no no

HI,
It depends on the condition. Some problems can be fixed with eye exercises and some difinetely require more attention.
Lammy