"Lighten the Burden: Finding the Right Glasses for Your Nose

[pivoxa15]

turbo-1, what abou the question I raised in post 27? Is it damaging to the eyes if not wearing any corrective ware?

I'm actually trying this out at the moment and my eyes are feeling much better than before except offcourse I can't see much unless if I am very close to the object.

 

[larkspur]

turbo-1, what abou the question I raised in post 27? Is it damaging to the eyes if not wearing any corrective ware?

I'm actually trying this out at the moment and my eyes are feeling much better than before except offcourse I can't see much unless if I am very close to the object.

If you have reached visual maturity(approximately ten years of age), you can not damage your visual system by not wearing your corrective lenses.

 

[Moonbear]

In principle, it should be possible to make custom eyepieces for users with specific eyeglass prescriptions. I wonder if anybody actually does this?

Not that I know of. As Ivan has recently learned, high quality microscopes are expensive, including their lenses. Since they are never used by just one person, it would be cost-prohibitive to start having custom oculars for every user. Depending on what you're trying to do, it would likely be easier just to use a camera projecting onto a monitor, which most high-end microscopes have purchased with them anyway for capturing images for publication or sharing or image analysis, etc.

 

[pivoxa15]

If you have reached visual maturity(approximately ten years of age), you can not damage your visual system by not wearing your corrective lenses.

That's good news. But would it increase my myopia and (mild-recently diagnosed about 0.5) astigmatism even more? If so by roughly how much?

 

[turbo]

That's good news. But would it increase my myopia and (mild-recently diagnosed about 0.5) astigmatism even more? If so by roughly how much?

Not wearing your corrective lenses (if you have matured) is not a bad thing, if your eyes can compensate. It can be stressful to you (and you may not realize why) to use your eyes in low-light condition without corrective lenses. Make sure that you have plenty of light when you read, study, do crafts, etc. This ensures that your pupils are "stopped down" (small diameter) which minimizes the distortions (like astigmatism) because you will be looking through the center of your natural lenses. Ample lighting will reduce many of the defects of your eyes for this reason. If you are trying to study with dim or shielded light sources (crappy reading lights) to accommodate a roommate, you are asking for problems with fatigue and eye-strain.