Hello! I have just come back from my eye doctor and I am really disappointed. My myopia getting increasingly worse! What can I do? I thought it would stabilize after a year or two. But it is still getting worse. And I was thinking about the surgery when my myopia is stabilized. I am sick of wearing glasses! Now, the surgery comes out of question. Is there anything I could do to stabilize my myopia?
Hello! You haven’t mentioned some very important information such as your degree (diopters) of myopia and your age. If you are a teenager (I think you are - since most of teenagers have problems with wearing glasses) you should know that it is normal that myopia increases (sometimes rapidly) during your growing up. It usually stabilizes at the age of 18 or 20. You can’t do anything to prevent this increase. Your eye glasses only help you to correct your vision but they can’t stop myopia. Your doctor would have probably discovered any other possible eye disease which could contribute to your degree increase. Since he didn’t tell you anything like that then I am probably right.
This post is fundamentally incorrect. Myopia is an adaptive response to an environment that requires more-than-natural near focus attention.
To prevent myopia from developing further, and in some rare cases, to reverse myopia, you should get a reading glasses prescription with plus-lenses. This will make it harder to read at first, but will allow your eyes to adapt back toward 20/20 vision.