[hmsshagatsea]

Bogus claims? Ok anecdotal evidence but I went to the eye doctor with my sibling when I was 8 and she was 10. We BOTH were proscribed the same glasses. I ended up wearing them all the time, and grew up to having a -4.0 by the time I was 30 My sibling? She never wore her glasses growing up and oddly enoug has perfect vision in her mid 30’s

Now granted I spent most of my time growing up playing on the computer and reading - but I was wearing my glasses the whole time so year by year it got worse. Eye doctors say “oh youre just growing into your eyes” when they know that’s not the case. Look at how many children have (pseudo)-myopia due to growing up with smartphones and tablets 24/7. It’s not hard to figure out.

Now I don’t think there’s an exact science to curing myopia but at the very least everyone should practice the 20/20/20 rule and wear their distance glasses as little as possible. Just those 2 things can save you from developing pseudomyopia.

[wahern]

> Now granted I spent most of my time growing up playing on the computer and reading - but I was wearing my glasses the whole time so year by year it got worse.

AFAIU it's relatively well established that regular sunlight exposure is critical to proper eye development. But judging by the numbers you mentioned this revelation (at least the scientific evidence for it) would have post-dated your childhood years.

[jsnell]

Yes, bogus. This is something that there have been many scientific studies on. Randomly do different levels of sight correction for kids, and look at what happens. Obviously these can't be double blind studies, so this is the best we can get. There simply is no evidence there of glasses making myopia worse.

In fact, in a famous case they had to abort the study early due to ethical grounds. The vision for the (uncorrected) control group was degenerating so much faster that they felt compelled to give everyone the correct prescription.