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where did you first became nearsightedness?

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Solodays

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anyone here who doesn't spend too much time on the computer or reading still impacted with nearsightedness?

as for others who spend extensive time on the computer, videogames and reading, you do you firmly believe this is the cause of your nearsightedness?
 
When I was like 8 years old. I played video games a few hours a week, I didn't read much, and I didn't use a computer, and that was about it. It's hereditary.
 
One eye nearsided, the other farsided. Mommy is the same way. Perfect vision up until about 9-10, then bam.
 
I'm nearsighted as well, been that way since I was around 8 or 9 years old.

Not sure how much it effected my vision, but I spent 2 years staring at a 19in CRT at 1600x1200 at 65hz.
 
If nearsighted means your arms are to short to read anymore, in my case, it's from getting old, and it sucks. My vision has gone to hell over the last 3 years. I used to be able to tell a flys sex from 200 yards, now can't see my finger tips. And the only thing that sucks more than bad vision is wearing glasses.

Seems I'm a bit more bitter about it than I thought...
 
I got my first pair of glasses in 4th grade when the IBM 360 was the computer of choice and there was little chance of me getting anywhere close to one so computers and video games definitely had nothing to do with it.
 
when i was in 5th grade...so about 6-7 years ago. im the first one to get glasses in my family. but my brother spend a LOT more time in front of the computer and he still didnt get glasses...
 
around 4th grade I noticed it... couldn't read the numbers on the flashcards from too far away, lol. I was playing a lot of computer games and reading a lot then. But my dad has horrible eyesight too so it might be hereditary.

now stuck with hard contacts as the optometrist thinks I might have beginning signs of keratoconus.. grr!
 
Originally posted by: Solodays
Originally posted by: Legend
It's hereditary.
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are you sure? who told you that? im nearsighted too, but my parents aren't nearsighted.
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It's mostly genetic. I started getting nearsighted when I was 8. I spent nearly all of my time playing outside. You'll find many other people that also didn't read too much or use a computer too much. It's just like gray hair...you don't stress out and go gray. It's genetic. And like gray hair and other genetic traits, it's not a simple passing between each generation.

By mathematically modeling the differences in the eye sizes, Hammond found that genes accounted for 89 percent of nearsightedness, farsightedness, and other refractive vision problems, he reports in the August American Journal of Human Genetics.
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http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040710/fob1.asp
 
age 11, and no, i didn't really own my own computer until i turned 12.

so i'd say there was no effect.
 
Originally posted by: Legend
Originally posted by: Solodays
Originally posted by: Legend
It's hereditary.
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are you sure? who told you that? im nearsighted too, but my parents aren't nearsighted.
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It's mostly genetic. I started getting nearsighted when I was 8. I spent nearly all of my time playing outside. You'll find many other people that also didn't read too much or use a computer too much. It's just like gray hair...you don't stress out and go gray. It's genetic. And like gray hair and other genetic traits, it's not a simple passing between each generation.

By mathematically modeling the differences in the eye sizes, Hammond found that genes accounted for 89 percent of nearsightedness, farsightedness, and other refractive vision problems, he reports in the August American Journal of Human Genetics.
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http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040710/fob1.asp
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i dont know man. im still alittle skeptic about reading and computing not having anything to do with it. i mean, how often do you see a nerd or one that spend endless hours on the computer that doesn't wear glasses?

think about it, if you spend alot of time on t he computer, your eye muscle atrophy will adopt to near objects as you dont look at far object too often, and you will slowly be a nearsighted victim.






 
I did use the computer and read books with low light, but I really got glasses probably after I got hit in the eye with a dirty tennis ball.
 
I've worn glasses since I was 10 years old (21 now). Very bad nearsightedness - as in, I can't see something clearly until it's less than 12 inches away from my face. I think it's always been pretty bad though, hasn't gotten too much worse over the years...I've been using computers since I was a small child, but I don't know that that's actually the cause.
 
As a kid I had 20/10 vision in my right eye, 20/15 in my left (left was always a bit weaker). As I've aged my right eye has suffered a bit, my left eye a lot. I haven't seen an opthamologist but I'm sure I'd need a prescription now if I did. I'm 28 now btw, noticed the decline around 25 or so.
 
I had perfect vision until around age 9 or 10. Then, I started to become near-sighted.

By the way, EVERYONE for the last two generations of my mother's side needs visual aid (that is three uncles, my mom, my aunt, and my grandparents, and my great uncle).
 
Was 20/20 up until college. Got worse every year after I turned 19. First glasses at 22. Not sure if it was the heavy reading, the heavy drinking or both.
 
Theres some truth to it.
Mine went downhill after 25.
I can still see every perfect about 2-4 feet out but when I'm driving and such, evrything is blurry to me.
 
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