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by dubeye 22 days ago
I was a heavy quest user but I think it ruined my eyes a bit and I needed glasses after having 20 20. Could be standard aging but the correlation was very strong
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You need glasses to see far-away stuff now?

Doing close work with your eyes can cause your ciliary muscles (they flex your lenses to focus) to be overworked. They seize up, and lose the ability to relax to their former length. When your lens can't relax, you can no longer focus to infinity.

"Nearpoint stress" is the term I believe