<p>It's depressing isn't it? It started degrading when I was in kindergarten. I had a -6.50 right and -7.00 last year, and today's appointment showed me a frightening increase of -7/-8.5, wearing contacts. Without them, I can't even find my glasses on a table.</p>
<p>The doctor tied it to computer usage and books, so now I'll be taking a lot more breaks.</p>
<p>I envy those with miraculous 20/20, darn your lucky genes that enable you to stare at a book all day with no drawbacks.</p>
<p>My eyesight starting going in 2nd grade!!! :P</p>
<p>Now I’m at -9 in both eyes!!! It’s been going down steadily over the years (at first -1 every year, then by halves). I don’t know what the cause of it is. My glasses are lost right now, but they were old anyways (probably -7.5).</p>
<p>I’m a -12.5 in both eyes, and yes, it sucks. When I got lenses beyond -10 or so, it became necessary to close my eyes for a couple minutes every hour–it literally hurts looking through my glasses.</p>
<p>On the other hand, my friends like to screw with my glasses and try it on, and go “Hey, this is so cool! It’s like I’m on LSD!” :P</p>
<p>JB</p>
<p>I wore glasses starting at age 2, when I walked into a pillar and said “Excuse me, ma’am.” At 16, I got contacts and my life began to change. With hard lenses, my visual deterioration slowed and eventually stopped. Finally, in 2001, technology reached the point where I felt comfortable getting LASIK surgery. I had a touch up on one eye in 2006. My vision was at least as bad as yours. Now my distance vision is great. My near vision has degraded a little, but I enlarge the font and try to use large print books when possible. I sometimes use a magnifying glasss when I’m reading tiny contracts.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I’m only at -6.00 right now, but my mom has it too and is at -10.00, I think and is also nightblind. Hopefully my eyesight will deteriorate slower in the future.</p>
<p>Mines since 6th grade.</p>
<p>I don’t use glasses, but I have a HARD time seeing words/numbers from a distance (even a small distance). Though i can see objects and such clearly.</p>
<p>Yeah when my friends look through my glasses (old pair), they said that it had hurt o.O</p>
<p>My vision started to deteriorate slower in 7th grade… but not that much slower. xD I’ll get lasik when I’m able to!</p>
<p>My left is a -8 and my right’s a -5.75 or something. All I know is that I can’t make out the E on the eyesight chart without glasses/contacts.</p>
<p>Heh, I’m guess I’m not the only one then …</p>
<p>What kind of things do you guys do to prevent deterioration? ex. taking breaks from the computer/homework every once in a while…</p>
<p>I thought I had it bad…
-2.25 and -2.5.</p>
<p>I got glasses at 4, and switched to contacts just before 10th grade. I’m currently at -7 and -7.5, with astigmatism in the latter; I’ve been stable for the past few years.</p>
<p>I don’t really do anything in particular to prevent deterioration. I guess I’ve just been lucky.</p>
<p>i’m -7 and -7.5. not only that, but i have dry eyes so i cant wear contacts too long and my eyes hurt after staring at a monitor for too long :(</p>
<p>On the other hand, I didnt know there are so many other highschoolers on the same boat as me :D</p>
<p>Prevent deterioration? Dunno if there’s a way, but my doc advises to take a 5 min break and gently massage the eyes for every 60 min of computer time. It really helped me last through hours of WebAssign.</p>
<p>JB</p>
<p>hmmm my eye doctor never said anything about how to prevent deterioration… even that it is possible o.O
I got glasses in 2nd grade and contacts in 4th grade.</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat as naturaldisaster–my left is -8 and my right’s around -5. I can’t read the E, either! I got glasses in second grade but have contacts now. I can’t even begin to imagine being -12.5!</p>
<p>Wow I thought I was bad at -4.00/-4.50. I’ve been going down pretty slowly though recently, only -.25 each year in each eye for the last 2 or 3 years. Hopefully it’ll stabilize completely soon :)</p>
<p>My eyes are really bad too. 
-7.25 in my left and -6.50 right. My doctor said it’s genetic, which makes no sense since neither of my parents wear glasses… Is it true that if you don’t update your prescription every year, your eyesight will continue to deteriorate? And it only stabilizes if you change it? Oh & has anyone tried and had any success with any eye exercises?</p>
<p>Yeah, I have pretty severe myopia. -7.00 in left, -8.00 in the right. I had to start wearing contacts in the 4th grade and had glasses since 2nd grade. Luckily, my eye doctor told me that my bad eyesight is stabilizing, so I’m planning on getting LASIK when I get older. It’s pretty bad because I hate wearing glasses now or seeing the world through a fuzzy lense, so I sleep with my contacts in quite often. I wouldn’t recommend it. :)</p>