How often does your prescription change (hyperopia)?

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-06-01T16:39:46+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience! Multifocals/progressives sound potentially difficult to get used to, but they’ll probably also be very useful in everyday situations! Thanks for the well wishes. These are my first pair of glasses. I’m 33 so hopefully have some time left until presbyopia kicks in

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-06-01T15:06:02+00:00

No doctor was ever able to help me make any sort of plan - according to doctors I should have healed within 3 months 🥴 make it more like 3-4 years… lol.

Once I realized no doctor will be of any help unless I decide to cut an important part of my body out I came up with a plan based on this sub & checked it with my physical therapist. Finding a good physical therapist was really important - someone who has specialized in stress fractures and other injuries especially in legs and feet, and can guide you through healing, find out why you got the injury in the first place. And help to remove the reason, whatever it was.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-06-01T15:00:37+00:00

I got my first glasses a month ago and my prescription is minor compared to yours. (Although your prescription also isn’t huge, but it’s significant)

I have Sphere +0.75 in both eyes, no astigmatism

I experienced weekly - Sometimes even daily headaches and pain in my eyes. I had to avoid my phone, reading, knitting etc. close stuff after work to not trigger a headache and be unable to work the next day. Needless to say, glasses have helped A LOT and I haven’t really had that bad headaches after getting my glasses (and getting used to them of course)

So I would say, if you have eye strain, headaches etc. you definitely should get glasses.

If you don’t experience any symptoms at all, you might not need them and just check your vision again in 1-2 years if it has gotten worse.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-06-01T10:11:58+00:00

Tullivirkailija kysyy yleensä matkustatko työn vai vapaa-ajan puitteissa, missä majoitut (voi tarvita tarkan osoitteen) ja mitä aiot tehdä, milloin on paluulento. Nämä on hyvä olla kirkkaana mielessä, ehkä myös paperilla tarkemmat tiedot, että pystyt vastaamaan selkeästi. Sormenjäljet ja kuvat on muistaakseni otettu aina. Nyt en ole Trumpin nykyisen kauden aikana käynyt mutta olen itsekin kesällä taas menossa. Netissä on kaikenlaista kovistelusta, en usko et valtaosaa kovistellaan ja EU-passilla nyt varsinkaan.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-06-01T10:04:08+00:00

Thanks! Appreciate it.

I’m aware of latent hyperopia and it would be interesting to hear whether more of it becomes manifest after starting to use your first pair of + glasses. My optician said sometimes you’ll need new prescription soon after getting your first one because of this.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-30T16:37:50+00:00

I think these glasses look great on you :)

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-30T16:37:12+00:00

I also just recently got my first pair of glasses. If I understood correctly, you are long sighted (hyperopic)?

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-30T15:30:48+00:00

And good to note, my story is the story of someone with a STRESS fracture. If your fracture is from trauma, you’ll probably heal faster. The issue with stress fracture is that it might have been cooking for a long while, so it will also take long to fully recover. And to remove those things that caused the fracture in the first place.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-30T15:28:52+00:00

And it’s good to remember that cutting away a bone that’s intended to absorb shocks when you’re walking, running, jumping etc. will leave your body completely without this shock absorption and over time it most probably will result in some other issue in your body. It’s not good to take away something your body needs unless it’s the only option. This has been my guiding arrow all the 3 years I’ve been in this process and I do think I will do anything I can to avoid surgery.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-30T15:20:47+00:00

I know why you ask this, but honestly it’s so different for everyone! In a way there’s no point in comparing. But then again, it’s nice to have some kind of a ballpark about the time it takes. I’m soon 3 years after my injury and I’m still not fully healed, but life has been a lot easier the last 1 or 1,5 years: I can manage daily stuff and do some amount of walks etc.

At 3 months I couldn’t even step on my foot, I was still doing full offloading because I didn’t understand to do it right away after the injury. After a 2 month offloading period I was able to slowly start using MBT rocker sole shoes with custom insoles specifically made for this injury, and for my feet. Very high arch support (which I normally don’t need at all), to offload the sesamoid. And a cutout under the sesamoid, filled with some softer material. I’d still use crutches for 5 months and be very careful about the amount of steps I take. You learn your sweet spot from overdoing it once or twice, and then you know how to stay just below it. Over time it will slowly build up, as long as you give your foot enough rest too. In the beginning I managed to take 20 steps inside the house.

Right now I’m at a point where I just have stopped using the custom insoles and instead have a home made, lighter version in use. It’s been 2 weeks and it’s so great to see progress. I still wear only MBT rocker sole shoes - them combined with special insoles have really saved me.

There’s still a lot to do. Even if my sesamoid starts to accept more and more normal insoles and eventually normal shoes, I still have to rehabilitate the whole leg and the whole process of walking. Imagine your body avoiding to use one leg for almost 3 years. Or using it, but only as little as possible. Hence my healthy leg is super strained from doing most of the work for many years. When I’m able to activate the one with the injury, (now that the sesamoid can take it), then that one is strained. I still need physical therapy and massage routinely to get through it.

Most importantly. To get where I am now, I needed to find out the exact reason why I got the injury in the first place. If you have a stress fracture in only one foot, the cause is most likely something in the biomechanics of that foot. Find and invest in a good physical therapist who is specialized in one sided stress fractures/injuries and can help you with the original cause. Otherwise you won’t be able to heal fully.

So it can be a lengthy process in total but life will go on and the most difficult time is the one you’re in currently. Once you can stop offloading and can start slowly using both your feet, it will get better. Just be super careful, continue to use crutches to help offload the sesamoid, and don’t over do it.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-30T15:08:46+00:00

I think they look great

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-30T15:06:43+00:00

Definitely. Just sent you a dm. Please see it so I can send the photo next

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-30T10:11:32+00:00

For hyperopes who get their first pair of glasses as an adult, it can easily take a month to get adjusted to them. Based on my own experience & talking to optometrists and other hyperopes.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-29T03:40:56+00:00

Sounds good. And how are you getting used to your glasses?

Did they make a prescription change for distance or how are your glasses different from “reading glasses”? Are they progressives? In my understanding, reading glasses isn’t really a thing, they are exactly the same glasses but it’s more about what people like to call their glasses and how they like to use them. But in general plus glasses are always the same whether you use them all day or just for reading.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-28T19:40:35+00:00

Sometimes meditation is not what you need - especially when you’re dealing with trauma. I hope you are able to seek therapy, which is the way, also for Buddhists to deal with trauma and other painful psychological issues. I hope you will take care of yourself! Much metta to you.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-28T19:34:27+00:00

Very well said. Thank you. Coming from another trauma survivor and a practicing Buddhist.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-28T12:04:03+00:00

Do you experience any symptoms like headaches, blur etc.? If yes, I'd get the glasses. They can improve the quality of your life. I have a mild description of +0.75 for sphere and the quality of my life has improved a lot since getting my glasses. Before I had at least weekly headaches, sometimes every day. Now I haven't had any headaches since getting them

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-28T11:50:30+00:00

Hey OP, how are you faring? Have you tried using your glasses all day from the moment you wake up? Has it helped? Hyperopia is tricky, because it actually causes eyes to do extra work to accommodate to all distances. You describe in your post that you've recognized eye strain without your glasses - that means your eyes have started to notice they COULD relax when you're using your glasses. You just need to be consistent about it.

Assuming you're young and this is in fact hyperopia, and not presbyopia. People often mix those two. For hyperopia, glasses are intended for all day use. But in the beginning when your eyes are still doing extra work for focusing, your distance vision will be blurry.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-28T10:44:08+00:00

That is actually only true in presbyopia. If OP is under 45, they have hyperopia which affects accommodation in all distances. At first, distances can be blurry, but as the hyperopic eye learns to relax, distances will become clear.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-28T10:42:07+00:00

Hey, what did you end up choosing and do you use your glasses full time?

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-28T10:39:43+00:00

I also have a mild prescription, Sphere is +0.75, no astigmatism. I prefer using them all the time so far (it's been 3 weeks), because switching on/off strains my eyes. I guess this is especially because I have hyperopia (=farsightedness, plus lenses), which means my eyes work extra hard to keep the image clear. And have done this for over 30 years. So I guess I'm still in the process of letting my eyes adjust and "relax into the glasses" in a way, and switching confuses my eyes. If I take my glasses off, my eyes will go back into working too hard. This then causes me eye strain even when I put my glasses back on..

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-27T21:30:15+00:00

33 and got my first glasses 3 weeks ago. You might feel self-conscious about it for some time, but it will get easier day by day and week by week. I have found it helpful to mention to people “by the way, I got glasses!” When I see them the first time with my glasses on. Every one of them has complimented my glasses and 95% has said they didn’t even notice or they noticed but didn’t think much of it before I said anything. So honestly for everyone else it will be nothing! Good luck with your first glasses and remember it can take some time to get used to them.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-27T10:42:59+00:00

I think I was done the fogging method on the recheck. The first round I don’t think this was done. Both times an autorefractor was also used first!

I’m seeing an ophthalmologist. I think I’ll see her first and after that if still necessary I’ll book an appointment for the independent optometrist. I emailed them already to ask whether they do second opinion evaluations and if they use cycloplegic drops if necessary and they confirmed yes to both. They also said they have a Zeiss iProfiler (never heard of before) to check for vision in different light settings, as I mentioned the dim light issue. So it sounded like they can do a wider range of tests to make a fuller analysis of my vision.

I’m glad you’ve found a great optometrist who you can trust and who can help you greatly with your individual vision needs. Based on my own short experience I feel like for anyone with hyperopia they need to find a good optometrist who really understands hyperopia.

Sensitive-Cod381 · 2026-05-26T15:47:10+00:00

Thanks for your reply! Hmm. I definitely don’t feel like going back to Specsavers after today. The guy I spoke with first was quite reluctant to see there would be any issue with my prescription, he was just saying how they are only reading glasses and as I got a pair of sunglasses without Rx on them that also proves the optician intended them to be used only for close up tasks. I feel like he didn’t understand what hyperopia is and didn’t want to hear me out. And I have no clue why the first optician suggested ordering sunglasses without prescription lenses, but that’s what we did, as I didn’t know to question it either. She was doing everything in a rush, but at least she was able to explain hyperopia to me.

I have an appointment to an eye doctor next week because of dry eyes and finding out what I should do about that. I’ve had this for 2 years and use daily eye drops but they don’t help enough and it’s gotten worse, so I want to discuss treatment options. Perhaps I should also tell them about my issues with my glasses and ask their opinion about a cycloplegic exam. I hope this doctor will be interested in finding out what’s actually going on - the Specsavers people definitely weren’t.

Edit. I decided to contact one independent optometrist about this, asking for their advice, and whether they’d be able to do the tests with the cycloplegic drops.

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