Has anyone improved their eyesight with eye exercises? Readi

Has anyone improved their eyesight with eye exercises? Readi

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Hammersia

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1,564 posts

22 months

Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Always had perfect vision, now at 49 I've started to struggle with reading smaller text, been resisting getting glasses.....
Has anyone here improved their sight for reading with eye exercises? E.g.changing focus in and out etc.

Boosted LS1

21,198 posts

267 months

Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Hammersia said:
Always had perfect vision, now at 49 I've started to struggle with reading smaller text, been resisting getting glasses.....
Has anyone here improved their sight for reading with eye exercises? E.g.changing focus in and out etc.
What have you been reading?

DKL

4,624 posts

229 months

Wednesday 11th October 2023
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It won't work, can't work. Have you been reading Mr Bates' book?
It's not a muscular change, your muscular input is the same whether you are 7 or 70, it's what the muscles are acting on that changes as you get older.
Look at it like a balloon full of water, easy to change the shape. Then put that balloon full of water in the freezer to simulate aging. As it gets more frozen (you get older) the balloon contents get more solid until it is solid. It doesn't matter how hard you try you can't change the shape, but you can try.
Just get used to it and buy some decent glasses.
And get used to getting older, it beats the alternative.
Now if you could find a way to reliquidise your crystalline lens then you might be onto something...

Edited by DKL on Wednesday 11th October 20:13

Hammersia

Original Poster:

1,564 posts

22 months

Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Boosted LS1 said:
What have you been reading?
I'm on the Ian Kershaw Hitler nemesis book, blooming small text

bigpriest

1,805 posts

137 months

Wednesday 11th October 2023
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When you cry as you realise your eyesight is getting worse, your tears can act as a magnifying lens and help read small text.

L1OFF

3,418 posts

263 months

Thursday 12th October 2023
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not exercise but strangely a cataract in my right eye has improved my sight (wont last long according to my optician).

DKL

4,624 posts

229 months

Thursday 12th October 2023
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L1OFF said:
not exercise but strangely a cataract in my right eye has improved my sight (wont last long according to my optician).
Improved your sight or reduced your prescription?

lemansky

1,432 posts

112 months

Thursday 12th October 2023
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Roughly akin to saying - I was starving hungry and did some mental exercises to convince myself I wasn't.
It didn't work. So I had a meal and it was all better.

Rubbish analogy aside - listen to DKL, for he is correct.


Incidentally @ DKL, my all-time favourite storyteller of this self-help stuff was the Russian "step-daughter" of a local retired business chap who was convinced she could hold her head at such an angle that the flow of blood to her eyes would be magically halted for a short while.

Then - she would face front and the resultant force of the rush of blood to her eyes cured her astigmatism.

(Keep it quiet!! Business is hard enough without everyone finding out they can cure astigmatism with a few careful head movements!)

DKL

4,624 posts

229 months

Thursday 12th October 2023
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lemansky said:
Roughly akin to saying - I was starving hungry and did some mental exercises to convince myself I wasn't.
It didn't work. So I had a meal and it was all better.

Rubbish analogy aside - listen to DKL, for he is correct.


Incidentally @ DKL, my all-time favourite storyteller of this self-help stuff was the Russian "step-daughter" of a local retired business chap who was convinced she could hold her head at such an angle that the flow of blood to her eyes would be magically halted for a short while.

Then - she would face front and the resultant force of the rush of blood to her eyes cured her astigmatism.

(Keep it quiet!! Business is hard enough without everyone finding out they can cure astigmatism with a few careful head movements!)
Loads of weird and wonderful out there, you have to laugh.
I had a postgrad colleague investigating this stuff. They were, and probably still are, about -7 but wore no correction mostly. They would usually completely blank you in the corridors as they didn't know it was you. They were very friendly mostly so it wasn't that they didn't want to say hi.
They brought some colleagues in once for a dept show and tell and they got a right grilling even when the pyschophysicists started picking up on a few things that might actually be feasible with work.
Sadly they simply didn't have any answers that made any sense or, more importantly, that they could demonstrate any actual evidence for.. To be fair it was rather coming into the lions den but we had a wide range of specialties there and we were there to try and see if what they offered could be made into something more. Sadly not.

lemansky

1,432 posts

112 months

Thursday 12th October 2023
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DKL said:
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They were, and probably still are, about -7 but wore no correction mostly.
Interesting story and not entirely unexpected these days.




sunnyb13

1,041 posts

45 months

Friday 13th October 2023
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laser eye surgery?

asfault

12,775 posts

186 months

Friday 13th October 2023
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bigpriest said:
When you cry as you realise your eyesight is getting worse, your tears can act as a magnifying lens and help read small text.
Hahaha brutal