Latent hyperopia

[stephert]

So I've had this problem with it being really hard to concentrate and read and it's really fatiguing and frustrating. So I went to the opthamologist and they said I had latent hyperopia (I'm only 23).  They said my right eye turned in slightly when I guess I concentrated on the object they put in front of me. So they gave me a prescription for +0.75 for both left and right "Sph"  in the distance category but they left both "Cyl" and "Axis" empty. And I had already gotten reading glasses before when I was trying to figure out my eye problem and the prescription for that was +1.00 for both left and right "Sph" with nothing for "Cyl" and "Axis". So I'm wondering if this is even going to help me or if this is just a normal prescription for another pair of reading glasses. I didn't ask the orthoptic, but she said I had latent hyperopia and this would help a lot so I took her at her word because I had already told them I had reading glasses before. I've seen some people on here with prescriptions that have numbers in all three Sph,Cyl, and Axis categories, and I want to know if this is what I should have.  Also, I wanted to know if this will help because I've had this condition for more than a year and I've gone to several optometrists who didn't know what was wrong with me, then I went to an opthamologist who didn't know what was wrong with me and then said I had convergence insufficiency and made me do pencil pushups for 6 months. So honestly I just want ANYTHING that will help.  Thanks!

[stephert]

oh yeah mine are +1.00.  But they don't help as reading glasses aren't going to help that much because I had reading glasses the last 7 years which I used occasionallly but not that much. Then last summer it became a lot harder for me to read, and now they say I have latent hyperopia but I don't understand what regular reading glasses are supposed to do as I already have stronger reading glasses that don't help. I was just seeing if they were refractive glasses or whatever kind of glasses I heard her mention.

[stephert]

I did have a dilated refraction the other day. That's when they determined I had latent hyperopia but the prescription seems like just normal reading glasses which I already have (mine are stronger too).

[Ray T Oyakawa, MD]

1)  Not all prescriptions have astigmatism.

2) You will not know you total hyperopia unless you have a cycloplegic refraction (dilated refraction).

Just get some +1.00 readers and see if it help.  Very inexpensive.

Dr. O.