Common eye problems experienced by adults.

There are many eye conditions and symptoms that begin or become common as people move into their 40's and beyond. Many of these can be easily fixed,  it is important to be seen for an eye check at certain stages, and be seen promptly if you ever have a noticable decrease in your vision.

You may have one of these common conditions:

 

  • Cataract
  • Glaucoma
  • Macular degeneration
  • Difficulty using your glasses, or with achieving clear vision for near objects
  • Irritated eyes, and eye infections and inflammation
  • Eyelid problems: cysts, lumps, watering, out-turned lower eyelids (or in-turned)
  • Diabetes 

 

Glasses

Eyes that are out of focus? This is an extremely common thing, and glasses or contact lenses are not uncommonly started in the teens and 20s of a person's life.

Symptoms of poor vision and the need to use glasses often increase from around 40 years old. At 45-55 the lens inside everyone's eyes has lost most of it's useful ability to change shape and focus, and this is why you need to wear glasses more and more. If you have previously had very short or longsighted eyes you may find that your glasses prescription is not 'right', as it can be difficult to incoorporate bifocal or progressive lenses in glasses with these eyes.

If you have early cataract then surgical correction of this is a time when you can become less dependent on glasses and gain much more comfortable vision. New lens implant technologies are enabling us to correct not only distance vision, but closer ranges with multifocal and accommodating lenses.

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Eye examinations

During a complete eye check we routinely measure the pressure within your eye, the focus of your eye & power of glasses, and examine all the different parts of your eye starting at the eyelids and surface of the eye, right back to where the retina is busy turning light into signals that travel along your optic nerve. All of this is easily done, often with the help of drops that enlarge your pupil to provide a detailed look at the inside structures of your eye.