Hey, why don't you look into the Bates method for eyesight correction. There is a forum here at curezone. It's not very active but I believe you can find a link there to the Yahoo forum and other webpages about this. It's non-surgical, and I want to do it one of these days.

OD really don't have a clue. don't wear the glasses, you will mess up your eyesight. do a google search for a web site called "imagination blindness" its about the bates method and will be a great place for you to start.

in about a year and half i have cut my prescription almost in half. it can be done, and eye docs don't have a clue.

john g

Let me get this straight - your eyes are 20/20 (or close to it), then why do you need glasses? Of such a strength that you have to get used to? Take advice from someone who knows - don't go for the glasses - look into ways to prevent eyestrain, exercises not glasses.

I too am far-sighted and wore glasses from the time I was 2 til I had surgery in 4th class to straighten a turned eye. Mum just told me one day to stop wearing them. 3 years later I had an accident which caused grazing to one eye, needing stitches to the white part. The doctor then tried to put me back into glasses, but I lied saying that I could see better without them. Glasses were not cool. After I left school I started thinking that maybe I did wrong and went to have my eyes checked at another surgery. I fessed up to what I had done 5 years before, was told that I saved my eyesight because I would have been wearing glasses permanently again by that time and would need stronger and stronger lenses every so often. Was told yes I should have glasses for close work but he wouldn't give me glasses until I did that sort of work. A few years later I went to another place because I was having trouble reading when tired, was given reading glasses that only really worked when I was tired. I rarely wore them, then I never wore them. That was when I was 23 - I am now 40 and still not in glasses, but know I will need them in the future. Oh and I am a crafter/sewer who does close work without glasses, just need good light. I often wear a miners headlamp for that. It cuts down on the eyestrain

My advice is don't get glasses until you REALLY need them.