Rapid deterioration of vision? Eyeglass concerns and advice needed.

[glorylin]

First off, thank you to anyone who has the patience to read this.  It's going to be a long post because I want to give full details about my eye problems. I have a lot to get off my chest and would really appreciate it if anyone could assist me.

I am a 27 year old male (healthy) and have recently had some vision issues that are concerning me, primarily with my right eye.  I'm not even going to try to sugar coat it, I use the computer more than the average person. I am on regularly for at least 10-14 hours a day.  It is part of my lifestyle at the moment.

When I was younger (12-13 years old) I was diagnosed with a slight degree of astigmatism in both eyes.  Eye glass /prescriptions were made, but I chose to very rarely wear the glasses, because I could still see fine without them and they were uncomfortable to me.

Fast forward to about age 26.  I started to notice that I may need to start wearing glasses again because my vision seems to be affecting me to the point where sometimes signs and peoples faces were blurry from a distance.  I took out my old glasses that were from my younger days.  They seem to still work alright, although not perfect, satisfactory enough.  I got a new frame for them because I didn't see the point in buying new glasses if they worked alright.  

I started wearing them a little more regularly than I used to, but still only when I really felt I needed to.  Again, the glasses were uncomfortable.  I grew tired of how uncomfortable they were to wear so I decided to go take an eye test and get some new frames.  

It was no surprise that my prescription changed over the course of  13 or so years.  After the exam I felt the doctor gave me a proper prescription that seemed to make everything clear.  At this point the eye doctor still said it was considered a mild prescription for astigmatism.  

[Doreen Fazio, M.D.]

If the prescription is indeed correct, your vision should be clear and crisp in each eye, if the rest of the eye exam is normal, i.e., if there is nothing else wrong with the eyes except for the refractive error.  I would see an ophthalmologist for a comprehensive exam, and also have keratometry checked, which will measure the corneal astigmatism, as well as topography, to look for subtle signs of a corneal disorder called keratoconus.  Wearing glasses will not weaken your eyes, they just focus the image on the retina.

[glorylin]

Thank you Doreen.

[glorylin]

I notice about a month later, the vision became some what blurred again, primarily my right eye.  I went back and they redid the eye test and said my prescription changed again, and that I probably just gave them bad results during the exam (which I don't believe I did).  He said the astigmatism in my right eye seems to have gone down and now I need more myopia correction.  So the day I left the office I was seeing very clearly in his test, 20/20 on the chart for sure.  They tell me to come back in a week to pick up my new glasses.

So here I am Today.  I got the glasses and the first thing I asked was to let me check the chart with the glasses on.  Everything on the right eye was out of focus and kind of had a double vision effect.  I told them I'd try it and call them back if I had any problems.  Left eye also doesn't seem to be perfectly in focus unless i turn the lens 90 degrees.  Right eye still seems somewhat blurry, not in great focus.

I haven't really worn glasses that much and I don't want to be a thorn in their side, but I believe I shouldn't be content unless the vision is satisfactory for me.  Is that the right way to think about this situation?  The opticians were trying to tell me I can't drive myself crazy by doing the one eye test, and I should be judging the view with both eyes focusing together...

And my other issue now, is that my right eye sight seems to keep changing and only over the course of a couple months.

Is this some kind of rapid deterioration associated with myopia correction?  I've read so many things about it, and I'm been frightened to even wear glasses at this point.