Is there any medication for nearsightedness aside from eyeglasses, contact lenses, or laser eye surgery?

there's another method in correcting near sighted, which is call OrthoKeratology. in short Ortho-K.

you wear a special type of Rigid gas permerable contact lens to sleep and the next morning you remove them. you can enjoy clear vision throughout till the end of the day.

when at night, you put on the lens to sleep again.

other than that, there are no other medication available.

carrots

i think not

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