Prescription glasses are convenient. They immediately improve your eyesight, however, glasses might not be as helpful as you think. When you suffer from pain you might pop a couple of pills and feel better shortly after. What do pills have to do with glasses? Just like the pills, they’re “quick fixes”. They take care of the symptoms, but they don’t resolve the underlying cause.
Like most quick fixes, they may cause even more problems in the long run. What are some of the disadvantages of using prescription glasses?
1) Glasses cause your eye muscles to become inefficient. If you don’t challenge your muscles, they become weak. Eye muscles are not an exception. Glasses alter the way you would normally use your eye muscles, and cause them a lot of strain. Your eye muscles continue to be strained, and it causes you to need a new prescription, which causes problem number two.
2) They create a cycle of dependence. The more you use them, the more you need them.
3) They cause your vision to become narrow, you peripheral vision takes a big hit, and activities that require good peripheral vision become more challenging. Glasses force you to use a small part of your total field of vision, which you compensate for by tilting your neck constantly. This causes strain which can lead to pain and poor posture.
4) They might make you look less attractive. This isn’t really a health concern, but it’s important to a lot of people. It’s not that the intellectual look is not appealing, but in some cases prolonged use of glasses can make your eyes look smaller because your eyes retract deeper into the eye sockets. This can affect how your face’s proportions are perceived.
5) The cost. This isn’t a health concern either, but it can matter to a lot of people. If you have a condition that worsens with time you might have to get a new prescription every year. Those costs add up, and in the case where multiple family members need glasses, the total cost can be very high, and this is without factoring in special cases.
Wearing glasses won’t make you go blind, or anything drastic like that. On the other hand, glasses won’t help your eyesight improve either. They’re convenient, but ineffective as a remedy. Glasses should only be worn when needed. Using prescription glasses too often will cause dependence, which can be detrimental to your eyesight.