I have bad eyesite in only one eye. Six years ago, I had no perscription in my left eye, and 4.0 in my right eye. My eyes have been steadaley changing, and when I got my eyes changed today, My perscription is now 7 in my right eye, and 1.5 in my left eye. My mother is worried that my eye at the rate it's going, I'm going to soon be blind in my left eye. I don't want to do surgery, or laser eye, or something like that. So we were thinking of me maybe getting These corrective lenses my mother heard about for my right eye. Apparently, you wear them at night, and during the day you don't have to wear them.
Would those lenses stop my eyes from getting worse as fast? Is it a possible solution for what to do for my eyes? Is it okay if I only got it for my right eye? I was told that when you have contacts you still have to have glasses in case you have an eye infection one day or something. So if I get these corrective lenses, what kind of glasses should I get?

Anyone who could help out with information, it would be greatly appreciated, especially someone who has used corrective lenses, or know someone else who has used them. Thanks very much...

I have never heard of corrective lenses you only wear at night... I can't see how they would work, as your eyes aren't even open when you are alseep. Would you have a link to a website?

While it is natural that eyesight changes over the years, especially as a teenager, yours seem to have changed quite a bit. Did you get checked out by a doctor to see if there is any particular reason?

When you say night glasses I'm assuming you wear the glasses only when it is dark outside. This would force your eyes to work harder. Many times when someone has poor eyesite in one eye, there is a film or scratch marks put over the glass on the good eye. This forces the bad eye to work harder. The use it or lose it idea comes to mind. While this really helps people with lazy eye, it also helps people with less than perfect vision in one eye. This is just an alteration done to your regular glasses for the daytime. (I've never heard about the altered night glasses idea but it does make sense). My friend's daughter wears glasses that are scratched and slightly marred on one lens. It really has helped strengthen her bad eye. You should suggest this to your eye doctor. Go back soon because this is something you really need to take care of before it gets worse.

Most people who need glasses have roughly the same correction in each eye, even though the exact details will differ somewhat.

The degree of asymmetry between your eyes is unusual, I think. Are you seeing an ophthalmologist or an optometrist? Has anyone measured pressure in your eyes or examined your retinas (the backs of your eyes)?

I'd find an eye doctor who will do that. And if you're talking about 7 diopters of correction (positive for farsighted, negative for nearsighted) that's a fairly strong lens.

One of my family members is a "high hyperope" (extremely farsighted) needing around +8 in both eyes. With glasses you get all kinds of distortion at the edges, but the distortion is far less wearing contacts.

In the U.S., ophthalmologists typically have the letters "M.D." after their names; they went to medical school to become doctors and then specialized in the eye. They treat diseases of the eye by prescribing glasses, prescribing medications, or performing eye surgery in an operating room.

Optometrists have the letters "O.D." after their names; they mainly measure refraction to prescribe glasses, with satisfactory accuracy. But they lack the deeper background of ophthalmologists and don't do surgery.

In the U.S. nobody else (that I know of) besides physicians and optometrists may prescribe corrective lenses.

I'm suggesting that you see a medical eye doctor if you aren't already doing so, just to make sure everything is ok, and to understand your eye condition better. It's your eye doctor's job to answer all the questions you ask above.

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Originally posted by Silja:
I have never heard of corrective lenses you only wear at night... I can't see how they would work, as your eyes aren't even open when you are alseep. Would you have a link to a website?

What you are describing is Orthokeratology which is the reshaping of the surface of the eye - and received FDA approval in 2002, although the method has been used for quite some time. Corneal Reshaping

Leppi, you would not be a candidate for this. These lenses push against the surface of the eye to make an elongated eyeball more round. It is prescribed for near-sighted people who have up to six diopters of myopia (-6.00) You are a 7 (farsighted I'm assuming since you did not say -7) so your eye shape is not elongated but rather the opposite. It's more "squished" for lack of a better word to describe it. Laser surgery would not be an option for you either. I believe 7.5 is the cut off for performing any form of corrective lasik or radial keratotomy surgery. However, with your right eye changing so much, a doctor would not be willing to perform the surgery.

I suggest you follow professor's advice and see a qualified, certified, professional. Sudden changes in eye-sight is not normal. Your prescription, per se, is not that bad....I'm
-7.5 Left and -6.5 right - yet mine was a gradual change over a period of 40 years. Your's is sudden.