Why can't I wear my reading glasses when walking around/talking to people?
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It depends on why you have been prescribed reading glasses. The doctor should have either told you that you were farsighted (hyperopic) or that you needed reading glasses (presbyopic).
If you have presbyobia (the loss of focusing ability that typically occurs after age 40), then your eyes cannot change focus themselves when looking between near and far. This is the whole purpose of bifocals or glasses just for reading. Since your eyes can no longer change focus, you "manually" focus by choosing which lens you look through (or no lens for distance if your distance vision is normal without glasses).
For someone who is farsighted, the range of focus for the eye has been shifted from "normal near to optical infinity" to "farther than normal near farther than optical infinity." Glasses using the same type of lenses as those prescribed as reading glasses shift the focus back to the normal range. But, becuase the eye still has its focusing ability, there's no need to change lenses when adjusting from near to far.
Then, there is a tricky aspect to this called "latent hyperopia." This is when a person is farsighted and has been using the focusing power of their eyes instead of glasses to see far away. These people don't even know they need glasses, as their eyes have had enough focusing power for them to see clearly, albeit with some eyestrain, discovered only because the doctor used eyedrops to paralyze your focusing muscles. In this case, the eye is never allowed to relax fully and suffers from something called "accomodative spasm," a condition where the eye doesn't fully relax because it hasn't been allowed to for a long time. In this case, the glasses required for correct the farsightedness can make you temporarily nearsighted until the muscles learn to relax fully over a short period of time-- maybe up to a month.
Thus, it really does matter why your doctor prescribed your glasses. If it was for presbyopia (a hint being your age), then what you describe is perfectly normal, and you are supposed to remove your glasses to see clearly in the distance. If it was for farsightedness, then you need to wear the glasses to see in the distance, even if things are a little fuzzy, to help your eyes learn to relax.
there s nothing wrong with you
it just proves you only need them for reading
perhaps the others may be in need of them all the time now
maybe you need bi-focals or a weaker prescription,or different prescription,it sounds like you are far sighted and objects closer to you are making you feel dizzy,many people need one prescription for reading and an entirely different one for driving or daily activities,it may be time for a trip to the optomologist or optometrist to see if all is well.
Reading glasses indicate that you need corrective lenses for close up work. You are what is known as "far-sighted" so you do not need glasses for regular vision. When your eyes try to adjust for a longer field of vision the glasses obstruct the eyes ability to focus.
A person who wears glasses can either be near sighted, cannot see distant objects clearly, or farsighted, cannot see things close up. People with reading glasses are usually farsighted. Since you are farsighted you don't need distant objects magnified, which may cause you to feel dizzy or see distant things slightly blurry.
glasses bend the light coming into the eye so it forms on the retina at the right point. Since close up and far away images will tend to come from different paths its quite common for people to need corrective lenses for one and not the other. So it is normal. Maybe they have bifocals, or they have those quater glasses that they can just look over when talking to people or just wear their glasses on the end of their nose. Or possibly they are all purpose glasses and not just for reading. But in any case you are perfectly normal.
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