My little one is getting glasses
@shaggin (74103)
United States
April 12, 2025 11:48am CST
Last month I took my little one to pre-k registration. They used a machine to look at her eyes and it said she needed glasses.
I found a pediatric eye doctor and made an appointment. The day of her appointment finally arrived on Monday.
They sat her in the chair and asked which images she could see. The saw the largest and the next largest but the next size down she said was just a dot. The woman was like you really can’t see what that is? I said she sits close to the tv and puts her books really close to her face so she probably can’t.
However she never bumps into things so I had no idea how bad her vision is. It is -850 in both eyes. She has high progressive myopia. She will need glasses with bifocals and transition lenses. She will use drops Friday, Saturday and Sunday to dialate her eyes for 24 hour periods. This should help get her eyes down to -600. The eye doctor was very worried saying she is at a very high risk of retinal detachment with how high the numbers are right now and with her eyes growing longer. The eye doctor herself has had retinal detachment 3 times in her life so I think my little one is in excellent hands.
Her father and his sister had cataracts and retinal detachment at 10 years old. I just found out his sister had glasses with bifocals at 2. My little ones eyes seem to be following in her aunts footsteps. I wish this had been caught sooner but luckily the drops should hopefully help prevent her retinas from ever detaching so she won’t have to go through what her aunt and father did. No signs of glaucoma yet thankfully.
Photo is of my little one playing hide and seek.
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@DaddyEvil (145592)
• United States
12 Apr
I'm sorry she's having problems like that and hope the drops do their job for her.
If she isn't bumping into things, I wouldn't have thought to have her eyes checked, either.
At the eye doctor I was sent to a couple of weeks ago by Social Security, the doctor asked if my regular Ophthalmologist had recommended surgery for me yet but my regular doctor said my eyes weren't bad enough for that. (I'm scared to let someone mess with my eyes. This doctor said I'm functionally blind in my left eye and that's why it hurts so much after I've played on myLot too long at a time. My right eye is straining seeing the white background here.)
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@shaggin (74103)
• United States
12 Apr
The eye doctor said she has never seen the drops not work. Her father was an eye doctor as well and he said his biggest regret was not using these drops on her. She’s older than I am though so I’m not even sure they used these drops on patients like that back then.
That is terrible news. Do you wear glasses? I’m thinking blue light blockers maybe better for you. Can the colors on this website be changed on your phone to cause less eye strain?
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@shaggin (74103)
• United States
4h
@DaddyEvil I wonder if you can just get a cheap pair that don’t have a prescription but block the blue light.
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@DaddyEvil (145592)
• United States
12 Apr
@shaggin I wonder if the drops even existed that far back...
I don't take my phone online and nothing can change the white background on myLot. Pretty even looked for any program that would do that and couldn't find one.
I wear glasses but only for distance vision. My close vision is great in my right eye.
We'll have to wait until Disability kicks in to try blue blocking glasses.
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@Juliaacv (52991)
• Canada
12 Apr
It is such a blessing that they caught this at such an early stage before she starts school.
My baby brother had a lazy eye, which was detected around the same age as your daughter, he had to wear corrective lenses, and they tried various things to get the lazy eye to get working, but it never worked. Today he just has plain glass in that lens, he cannot see out of that eye at all.
She is a good hider, I can barely see her there. 
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@shaggin (74103)
• United States
4h
@Juliaacv my son has a lazy eye. All my kids inherited their eye issues from their fathers 
. It sounds like your brother should have had eye surgery . My sons were never that bad thankfully and with his glasses they do pretty good. He never needed glasses until he was 16. I’m 41 and still have perfect vision thankfilly.
. It sounds like your brother should have had eye surgery . My sons were never that bad thankfully and with his glasses they do pretty good. He never needed glasses until he was 16. I’m 41 and still have perfect vision thankfilly.1 person likes this
@snowy22315 (187547)
• United States
12 Apr
Oh my, poor kid I wouldn't wish that on any child Really good it was caught now though! That is something to be thankful for.
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@Tina30219 (82805)
• Onaway, Michigan
12 Apr
Sorry to hear this sounds like she is in good hands with this doctor
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@RasmaSandra (83822)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
22h
Best of luck and I hope everything will work out and she will have glasses she likes, I had my dad's eyes and when I was in the 7th grade I started needing glasses, It was the same time he did too,
@JudyEv (350524)
• Rockingham, Australia
6h
That's good that the problem has been picked up at least.
@LindaOHio (186307)
• United States
4h
I'm glad someone finally knows what the problem is. I hope the drops will help. I have glaucoma; and the daily drops keep my eye pressure in check. Sending a prayer.
@Treborika (17868)
• Mombasa, Kenya
4h
The eye problems can be so daring for the little ones. I am therefore very glad that it was noticed in the early stages. Thank God that no signs for glucuoma was noticed too
@GardenGerty (163034)
• United States
12 Apr
I am so glad you got a good referral. It can make a huge difference.
@AmbiePam (97034)
• United States
12 Apr
I am so glad they checked. My oldest niece, and then my nephew both had to have glasses starting extremely young, but they caught it because both birth mothers had gone into premature labor, and they keep very close eye on preemies with health problems. With Hudson, they had to go in and individually tighten his eye muscles.
But how scary to hear that! I’m very glad that doctor is so well versed in her profession having experienced the situation herself. But your daughter is probably strong like you, and she will overcome this.
@celticeagle (172965)
• Boise, Idaho
23h
It's good that the school did this test so you found out. At least now you know.
@jstory07 (143175)
• Roseburg, Oregon
12 Apr
I hope everything goes good for your little one. She is in good hands.
@sallypup (63687)
• Centralia, Washington
12 Apr
I'm sorry this is happening to your daughter. When my daughter was maybe two, we reaiized she was issues seeing so we took her to an eye doctor. She ended up having surgery for what people call a lazy eye. She was prescribed glasses and shocked us when we realized she'd never understood what the moon was or what it looked like.
