Can strong prescription glasses damage eyes?

Myth 4: Wearing the wrong prescription can damage your eyes. “Who hasn’t tried on someone else’s glasses and felt dizzy and disoriented? The wrong prescription may feel weird and it can even give you a headache if you wear them very long, but it won’t damage your eyes.

What happens if you wear a stronger prescription?

When your prescription is too high, you will notice that you begin to feel dizzy and nauseous within some time of wearing your prescription glasses or lenses.

Is it bad if glasses are too strong?

Overcorrection means the glasses are too strong for the wearer, while undercorrection means they are too weak. For many spectacle wearers, this can lead to eyestrain as well as headaches, neck pain and nausea. Cheap, ready-to-wear spectacle lenses that have not been fitted often have this effect.

Can too strong glasses cause dizziness?

A pair of glasses that are fitted too tightly can cause both headaches and dizziness.

Does wearing eyeglasses with the wrong prescription weaken your eyes?

Wearing eyeglasses with the wrong prescription, however, is not going to weaken or damage your eyes. To understand why, it is helpful to get a better sense of how prescription eyeglasses actually work and how they correct your vision.

Why is it important to keep up with your glasses prescription?

Keeping up with your glasses prescription means that you will continue to see clearly, thanks to lenses that are customized to your vision needs. If your glasses are the wrong prescription, in either direction, you can develop eye strain. Symptoms of eye strain include: Soreness in or around the eyes.

What to do if you are struggling with your new glasses?

Contact Eyelux now if you are struggling with your new prescription glasses. The blurred vision test is a simple and easy test to know if your eye prescription is incorrect. Put on your glasses or lenses and cover one eye.

Does wearing glasses make refractive errors progress faster?

Refractive errors will progress regardless of whether you wear glasses or not, but wearing glasses means that you can see better. ( Learn More) When adults wear the wrong prescription, it may cause eye strain, but it will not hurt their vision. ( Learn More) However, if children wear the wrong prescription, it can make myopia progress faster.