HEALTH - MYOPIAMyopia (nearsightedness) affects 20% to 30% of the population, but this eye disorder is easily corrected with eyeglasses, contact lenses or surgery. People who have myopia or nearsightedness have difficulty seeing distant objects, but can see objects that are near clearly. For example, a person who is nearsighted may not be able to make out highway signs until they are just a few feet away. People who are nearsighted have what is called a refractive error. This means that the light rays bend incorrectly into the eye to transmit images to the brain. In people with myopia, the eyeball is too long or the cornea has too much curvature, so the light entering the eye is not focused correctly. Light rays of images focus in front of the retina, the light-sensitive part of the eye, rather than directly on the retina, causing blurred vision. Myopia runs in families and usually appears in childhood. Sometimes the condition plateaus, or sometimes it worsens with age. Myopia and astigmatism are sometimes mistaken as one. It is because they almost have exactly the same symptoms. Myopia is a condition where in the projected image is formed inside the eye, not on the retina, whereas, astigmatism is the irregular curvature of eye lenses, thus developing blurry sight. Myopia Astigmatism or myopic astigmatism is an optical defect where in the vision is blurred due to the inability of the eye to produce image on the retina. The eye optics is incapable of projecting clear images in the retina. This is caused by the irregular curvature of the cornea or lens. Myopia astigmatism is the worst condition of either the two disorders could ever get.
Symptoms
Fatigues or headaches
Very blurry vision
Working very closely at objects is always necessary
Deformed eyes or abnormal shape of the eyes
Teary and swollen eyes
Treatment
Your eye muscles are too tense and they don't relax as they should, so your optometrist puts lenses with the opposite shape in front of your eyes, and therefore supposedly corrects your vision. Wrong, the lenses don't correct anything, they just allow you to see distant objects, but your eyes didn't relax. There is a reason why they don't relax in the first place, and that reason is not addressed. In fact, it will most likely get worse, but we'll get to that in a second. Your tense eye muscles cause your lens to be shaped too steeply, and eye surgery is flattening out your lens by shaping off "excess" from the lens, but the muscles stay as stiff as they've been. Did it correct your vision? I beg to differ. What happens when your eye muscles start to relax? Now you are missing some lens, aren't you? Well, with true correction it wouldn't matter if your muscles relax, in fact they would, and then your eyes would work perfectly fine. That's the part we didn't talk about yet. You see, myopia mostly occurs in young people, and especially in young people that are under a lot of stress. Since myopia is rooted in tense eye muscles, we get a major clue as to what is going on. When human beings under stress they often get tense muscles. We are very familiar with that in the muscles we can see, but the same happens in the muscles we don't see, but we see with. You have to understand that myopia is not a physical problem, we only perceive the physical symptoms. The underlying reason is in the mind, in the part that stresses us out, in the part that causes us to tense up. So when you use glasses and you can see into the distance again, you give your eyes more room to tense up, hence you get stronger and stronger prescriptions, until you learn to relax. Once you understand and find that part, myopia is easily corrected.More Information
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