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by qup 19 days ago
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