Can you fix low vision problems with corrective lens?
I had surgury to correct a retnal detachment. Now I am Legally blind in that eye because of blurred vision. Can i be able to see better if I get a stronger perscription glasses? I wear glasses anyway.
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- If you had a retinal detachment, and the macula was off, and then the detachment was repaired...and now you can't see well even with the right Rx...this indicates that the macula, the center of the retina, was damaged. But....if you are relatively young (teens or early 20's or even just 20's or so) with time you can get a significant amount of vision back. You'll find that the other eye, if it's good, will become the dominant eye. It won't work harder just because the other can't see well, but you'll depend on it for finer vision. There are lots of low vision aids out there. They vary from simple magnification with large lenses, to special telescopes, to little cameras mounted to computer screens for reading, writing checks and stuff like that. Legally blind means that the best corrected vision in that eye is 20/200 or worse. That means that a normal person would see a letter at 200 feet (smallest one he can make out) and you stand at the 20 foot range to see that same letter. He could see a little letter at 20 feet. That would be 20/20. A 20 foot letter at 20 feet. The thing about low vision aids is that with the other eye being ok, you wouldn't tolerate using the aid for the bad eye very well. Also, and this is probably the more important thing. Wear Glasses. Wear glasses not just to see better, but to protect that good eye. You don't want some stupid accident to hit your good eye and then after all is said and done, your bad eye is NOW your good eye. And for some reason, when people with one good eye hit themselves in the eye, they don't hit the bad one, they hit the good one. So glasses for you would be for safety.
