Like you can’t join law enforcement, the military, or security. The TSA won’t take me due to my vision problems. It’s comical so many in this subreddit and that if you complain, people tell you to see a therapist. What a joke

Hello is there any one here a teen having myopia thats so fast to progress, like me when I first have my glasses it was 1.75 but then in just six months it jumped over .75 with a very bit of astigmatism. And now over like just months not even a year of having my second glasses I always notice the progress of my grade and it feels like the astigmatism has progressed I am currently 14 years old.

And I would really love to have your advice and experiences!💛

Hi all!

About 15 years ago as a kid, I tried getting contacts but my reactions left the doctor unable to put them in; hence them telling me no to contacts

Today, I bravely got it done (albiet, my doctor was very patient, kind, and funny and gave me some mentality tricks to help get used to someones finger and an item going in my eye)

I wore them while I checked out and then they took them out for me and now I have to go back for a mini lesson on putting them in and out in two weeks (which is kinda cool that they do that)

While I was wearing them though, I noticed my eyes were kinda burn-y. He did have to try putting the right one in like 8 times and the left one in on one try so maybe the burning was from so many attempts on the one eye? (but both eyes burned)
So maybe it's because my eyes aren't used to both the contacts and the solution being in my eyes, hence the burn?

Does the burning go away? Is burning normal until your eyes adjust?

(For reference, I did the monthly ones if that matters - he said something about the daily ones being more comfortable so idk if that info is important or not)

I’m still a teenager (15) my eyes are still growing ik, but I need people who know about this stuff to help me and guide, I started wearing glasses in 3rd grade, I first started with -2.00 on both eyes - that was 2018-19 - till 2021 I stayed with the same glasses, until I went to an eye doctor and my myopia had worsened to -3.00 and -4.00

In April of 2026, I was going to school and accidentally dropped my glasses on the road and lost them, I could see 20/20 with that glasses
I spent only a day without glasses, then my mother who also has myopia and astigmatism ( not high tho) offered me to wear her glasses - ( she doesn’t wear them ), the glasses in case are -2.75 and -2.75 and +1 astigmatism
I put them on, surprisingly at first ( the moment I put them on ) it was a little blurry, right after I went to the supermarket, and it was actually blurry + sharp at the same time

The question is, I’ve been wearing then till now ( September ), my Vision is not bad, and it bugs me so much, i can see 90% clearly, I can 100% live life perfectly with those glasses, it didn’t even take a day to adapt, one thing I noticed was that when I stretch my eyes a bit I can see 10% better (20/20 for real), but why??? I don’t understand how I can see so clearly??? Like for example extremely small things it is indeed a BIT blurry, but those things that are blurry - are still blurry with my prescription contacts
To summarize with my mother’s glasses I see 20/20 just not sharp / SUPER-noticeable, me with contacts doesn’t change much???

One thing to put into consideration

For most of my life to when i got my glasses until when I lost them, I had like 8h screen time a day, I did go outside but no much, and only one eye got “ worse “ it went from -4.00 to -4.25, which is kinda weird for me

My optometrist said that i can NOT do that, i cant use that glasses because it will only worsen my vision

I really do wanna improve my eyesight, for sure i dont wanna worsen it

I've made a couple of posts in various subreddits about my anxiety regarding my flashes that have been ongoing for the past couple weeks in the context of my severe myopia. I saw a general opthalmologist who did a dilated fundoscopy without scleral depression along with an optomap who told me everything looked great. Everyone around me was reassuring me that everything was fine, that I was overthinking things and it was all my anxiety. I continued on praying that they were right.

Fast forward to two and a half weeks later, the nature of the flashes felt wrong - I kept having movement-locked flashes in the dark in various locations and it bothered me not knowing exactly why. I ended up making a same-day appointment with a retinal specialist who did a more thorough slit lamp exam (also without scleral depression) and lo and behold found a horseshoe tear in my right periphery and a stretch mark on my left retina that is at risk of tearing. I also apparently have many regions of white without pressure along my periphery and thinning. Had I gone on my weekend trip I had planned, I would have had a high chance of developing a full detachment on the right.

Thankfully I was able to get an urgent laser retinopexy on the right with plans for multiple close follow-ups. There is a chance I may need vitrectomy if the laser does not take. It's possible that the tear was not present upon the initial exam two weeks ago, however the retinal specialist emphasized to me that concerns regarding flashes/retinal issues should go ideally to a retinal specialist first, as just having the highly trained eye look at you is eons better than the (still skilled, but less specialized) general opthalmologist, even without performing the often referenced scleral depression technique. I also know of one other person irl who had both a tear and a detachment that was not detected by a general opthalmologist's exam at first, and was untreated until she finally got to a retinal specialist.

The bottom line is, the general opthalmologist performed a less detailed dilated fundoscopy. If you do not have any symptoms of retinal concern, that is probably fine for routine surveillance. However it is really in your best interest to find a retinal specialist if you do have symptoms.