Tell me about prism lenses for eyes that just keep focusing close up

Post date: 2024-07-06 07:06:14

My son has severe myopia...We thought? Now the optometrist is just a little stumped. But he thinks that maybe the issues is that he's actually not that myopic and instead has a condition where he tends to focus his eye close up and then doesn't relax it back into far focus when he focuses far. He wants to try prism lenses and see if that helps. I want to google this but Google denies all knowledge of this condition. What is this called. Please help me find info.

So my son was diagnosed at 3 with extreme myopia by an opthalmologist. He was -7 in both eyes. The next year he was -8. The next year he was back to -7. in one eye and -8 in the other. The year after that he was -7 in one eye and-5 in the other.

So after multiple tests and different readings today and with the confusion of the fact that his vision really shouldn't be improving over time and it's weird that it seems like it is, the doctor wanted to do the test with the prisms but A) It seemed like my son had had enough and B) we'd been there a long time and he had another appointment so we're going back in two weeks. So we're going back in two weeks to do that. In the meantime I'd like to read up on it, but I can't find anything about this. He said the prism lenses would help his eyes relax and then he would need a less strong prescription. Nothing I find about prism lenses says anything like that.

He said testing with the prisms would take about 20 minutes, if that helps you figure out what he might have been talking about.

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