Latent Hyperopia

[stephert]

My opthamologist gave me a cyclopegic refraction and determined that I have latent hyperopia and farsightedness of +3.50.   My opthamologist said I could just titrate my glasses strength up as needed and so far I'm up to +2.00 and it's definitely helping. My question is with latent hyperopia will I need to have reading glasses of +3.50 for perfect sight or do my eyes help some (in which case I won't need to go all the way up to +3.5 maybe).  I'm just wondering because I'm titrating myself up slowly to see what's the perfect strength and I'm not sure if I should just be increasing the strength faster to get up to +3.5.
Thanks.

[stephert]

I'm 24 and I've been using readers now for 6 months and they've helped a lot. Just wondering if I should go up to +3.5 no matter what.  Sounds like I should just titrate myself up until it seems to be working perfectly.

[Ray T Oyakawa, MD]

If you are still in your 30's or less you not need readers.  Most patient will not tolerate the full correction, but can come close.

Dr. O.