Eyeglasses Prescription Changing Every Eye Doctor Visit Causing Worries Your Eyes Will Go Blind?

A commonly heard question in my optometrist eye care center is will my eyeglasses prescription keep changing? Followed frequently by will I go blind? The latter is a common misperception based very slightly on fact. People due lose eyesight and suffer loss of vision from degenerative myopia or nearsightedness. There is a significant increase in the percentage of people who get retinal detachments in the nearsighted population. However, even though this is a significant increase, relatively speaking it is extremely rare.

A very small segment of the population do have degenerative nearsightedness. This is a pathological state of the eye where it progressively gets worse at a rapid rate and causes a number of serious vision problems including retinal detachments, glaucoma, cataracts and retinal degeneration that can cause blindness. This condition is evident in adolescence and if you have to ask you don't have it. Degenerative myopia has a reported incidence of 2% in the United States, and is the seventh leading cause of blindness.

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Your Eye Doctor and Dry Eyes

When you suffer from dry eyes, you may think it is simply because of something in your environment. What you may not know is that it can be a disease that your eye doctor can treat. If your eyes are chronically dry, it may be time to schedule an appointment.

Eyes become dry when they do not create an adequate amount of tears. This is dangerous, because it causes the inflammation, which can increase infection risk and can cause scarring. If the scars occur, permanent vision loss can happen.

However, lack of tears is too simple to be the full explanation for dry eyes. As your eye doctor will tell you, your eyes create three layers of tears. The one closest to the actual surface of the eye is the mucin layer. This layer smooths out the surface, and it is followed by the aqueous layer, which is the water layer that keeps the area moist and is created by the tear ducts. Finally, the lipid layer is an oily film that prevents the rest of the liquid on the eye from evaporation.

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Eye Aging Problems - Annual Eye Doctor Exams Can Help Detect Macular Degeneration and Cataracts

As we age so do our eyes so it is important to take precautions to avoid certain eye problems. A common eye problem is called macular degeneration that comes with aging. This eye problem is caused by deterioration of the tissues in the eye. This is a chronic eye disease with no cure, but promising new treatments emerging. It can give a person blurry vision and central blind spots. There are two different kinds of macular degeneration, which are the wet and dry kind.

The wet kind is known to be more serious but less likely to occur. This kind can give you visual distortions such as seeing straight lines being crooked or wavy in appearance. You may notice objects looking very small or being farther away then they really are. You may notice loss of your central vision with blurry spots. It may progress rapidly without treatment. Eye injections of two different medications have been widely used the last few years to help help control the wet form. The dry form develops much slower, Specific supplements have been shown to delay the progression of the dry form into the more severe wet form. A new National Eye Institute study is underway to see if changes in the supplements will improve their effectiveness.

If you have dry macular degeneration you may notice blurriness in the words that you read, less color in certain objects and have a harder time recognizing peoples faces. Your vision may start to seem hazy and you will have the need for brighter light. With both kinds of macular degeneration, it may only effect one of the eyes. Sometimes people do not realize that they have it with the eye that does not have it making up for the eye that is effected. Eventually, both eyes will be effected over time in most cases.

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Opthamologists: Find a Qualified Eye Doctor in Your Area

It is crucial that you visit an eye doctor on a routine basis and the online database provides easy accessibility to qualified physicians in your area. The online listing provides contact information for eye doctors in Rural, suburban and urban areas. The technology used by the opthamologist search is so much more reliable than the Yellow Pages and quicker and faster than utilizing your insurance booklet.

Opthamologist listings in your area are easily accessible through an online database. Simply enter your zip code and receive a listing for eye doctors in your area. Listings are available for physicians all across the US including Hawaii, Texas, Florida, California, Virginia, New Jersey, North and South Carolina, and more. It is crucial that you visit an eye doctor on a routine basis and the online database provides easy accessibility to qualified physicians in your area. The database provides listings in rural, suburban and urban areas and the technology used is so much more reliable than the Yellow Pages and quicker and faster than utilizing your insurance booklet.

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How to Save Money at the Eye Doctor

Many people have health insurance but don't carry things like vision coverage. The reason for this is that it is expensive and many times doesn't seem to cover very much. There is also the mindset that a heart attack could bury you financially but a new pair of glasses won't so why worry. The result is millions of people putting off visits to the doctor until the problem is too big to ignore, then paying for everything out of their own pocket. It is estimated that 7 out of 10 Americans are either under insured or completely uninsured and some of the largest numbers are those without vision coverage.

Maybe you are one of the many that wants lasik surgery but hasn't done anything because you don't have the money, or needs new glasses but doesn't want to spend the money. You're not alone. People are delaying treatments that can greatly improve their quality of life because of money. We also know that if little problems are left untreated they can often grow into much bigger conditions that are more difficult and more expensive to correct. Sometimes they even leave permanent damage.

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