My myopia is -7.25 and -7.75 and my presbyopia is 150 both sides. I’ve seen a doctor and he advised against the surgery. He said correcting my eyes to monovision (one eye to see near and one to see far clearly) will cause eye strain and correcting them to perfect vision for shortsightedness (myopia) will leave the presbyopia uncorrected, thus resulting in me having to keep putting on and taking off my reading glasses all the time. I’m prepared to take the 2nd choice and wear multifocal glasses but he’s still against it. He said it’s not worth it since it’ll only at most make my glasses thinner. What do you guys think? Does anyone wiht myopia and presbyopia tried this and does it really cause terrible eye strain? Will it make life more difficult? I’m so upset to know that I can’t get the laser surgery done.

So, I spend a lot of time drawing. When I hit my late teens/early 20’s, I noticed that when I looked up after about three hours of drawing, my vision was fuzzy for the rest of the day (like, I was seeing colored blobs; that bad). It really scared me. Now it’s gotten worse, to the point that a mere half an hour of drawing leaves my vision blurry for the rest of the day, even when using reading glasses. Is this presbyopia? Or something else? The web keeps saying that you shouldn’t even have this until you’re in your 30’s, and the last thing I want to lose is my vision. It’s hard to draw if you can’t see. Anybody with experience and/or knowledge?

are the reading glasses sold at the pharamcy for presbyopia or farsighteness and are they the same as farsightness glasses or are they different?
is presbyopia and farsightness the same and do people with these conditions wear the same kind of glasses (ie, the ones sold at the pharmacy?)

also, does nearsighteness stop ever growing worse?

You know how with progressives and reading glasses you can only see so close, like for me I can only read if something is about 8 inches away from my face. Well is it possible to get reading glasses to help you see very close, such as 2 or 3 inches away from your face? Can this be done with a very powerful prescription or is it impossible?

I had LASIK years ago – both eyes corrected for myopia. I’m 45 and presbyopia is getting annoying. It’s gotten to the point where I sometimes cannot read things at arms length even. Besides reading glasses or contacts, what are my options for correction of this? I have a feeling I’m heading for (hopefully stylish) eyeglass chains….

My optometrist says that in my 40’s I will develop presbyopia since I have astigmatism and hyperopia. He claims that it’s not because everybody eventually becomes presbyopic, but rather because I have farsightedness. Is that true? And why wouldn’t my regular correction for farsightedness correct the presbyopia? Why would I need reading glasses if I already have the correct lens?