Very blury eyesight coming and gong

[laurie330]

Hi, I'm near sighted so I have worn glasses for years. I have very dry eyes like sand in them, mostly when I drive. Also, I only wear my glasses then. I haven't been to an eye dr in a couple years. No insurance, so pitting it off. Last time I went he tied tubes in my tear ducts and the fell out twice so we gave up.
My vision has worsened  BUT now it has me worried. I will be reading and then I cannot see a thing.. Total blur.. Then blur with lines though it sometimes as I fight to see? I do her migraines they are random. I have a prescription for meds. Had a bad one yeasterday. Anyone know what  can cause this? Well blurring up now..
Thanks for any answer to this.

[Doreen Fazio, M.D.]

The American Academy of Ophthalmology has a program whereby uninsured patients are able to see an ophthalmologist without charge.  This used to be called the National Eye Care Program.  I think it is now called EyeCare America.  Check with AAO.org.  Good luck.

[Doreen Fazio, M.D.]

You did not give your age, but if you are over 40, you may have presbyopia.  This is the normal age-related loss of accommodation in the lens.  If you are wearing your myopic correction to read, you are asking your eyes to accommodate first to neutralize the myopic prescription, and then to accommodate to see near.  After 40, our lenses do not have this much accommodative reserve.  If this is the case, you will read better without your glasses.  If you still have a problem, you need to see an ophthalmologist for an evaluation.