My little one is getting glasses
@shaggin (74144)
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 (146686)
• 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 (74144)
• 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 (74144)
• United States
13 Apr
@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 (146686)
• 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 (53186)
• 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 (74144)
• United States
13 Apr
@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 (188502)
• 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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@shaggin (74144)
• United States
14 Apr
@snowy22315 yes I am very sad about it. I’m glad it was caught now though or it could have been even worse. So strange and doesn’t trip over things or run into things with how bad her eyes are.
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@snowy22315 (188502)
• United States
14 Apr
@shaggin Just another thing to cope with I guess. 
I just hope the other kids don't tease her. You know how kids can be. However, she may handle this like a champ. The big concern though is the possible retinal detachment.
I just hope the other kids don't tease her. You know how kids can be. However, she may handle this like a champ. The big concern though is the possible retinal detachment.2 people like this
@Tina30219 (82880)
• Onaway, Michigan
12 Apr
Sorry to hear this sounds like she is in good hands with this doctor
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@shaggin (74144)
• United States
27 Apr
@Tina30219. I think so especially since she herself has had retinal detachment three times in her life.
@Treborika (17893)
• Mombasa, Kenya
14 Apr
The doctor seems to know be so professional about their job
@Tina30219 (82880)
• Onaway, Michigan
27 Apr
@shaggin Wow . Yeah if she has went through it then I am sure she knows her stuff
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@Deepizzaguy (109094)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
14 Apr
Sorry to learn that your child has to wear glasses at such a young age.
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@shaggin (74144)
• United States
20 Apr
@Deepizzaguy im guessing she needed them since birth but we had no idea. At least we can get on track soon.
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@Treborika (17893)
• Mombasa, Kenya
14 Apr
I am sorry for that. I have a friend of mine that wear glasses for the same eye problem too
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@AmbiePam (97662)
• 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.
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@celticeagle (173714)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Apr
It's good that the school did this test so you found out. At least now you know.
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@shaggin (74144)
• United States
28 Apr
@celticeagle yes I’m so thankful! She doesn’t like the glasses at. For looking at things up close to play with her toys etc she refuses to leave them on she said it makes things look funny. I don’t think she likes the bifocals part.
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@shaggin (74144)
• United States
29 Apr
@celticeagle she doesn’t have a bridge to her nose so they won’t stay in place
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@celticeagle (173714)
• Boise, Idaho
28 Apr
@shaggin .......Sounds like she doesn't. It may take a while for her to get used to them and get the nack of how to use them.
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@allknowing (144699)
• India
13 Apr
Hope she will know how to keep her glasses on little that she is
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@shaggin (74144)
• United States
19 Apr
@allknowing they have a band that can be taken on or off but it wraps around her head. I’m going to try to get her to wear them without it but with the bridge of her nose not being very developed yet they may be hard to keep up at the proper spot.
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@allknowing (144699)
• India
20 Apr
@shaggin In that case you may have to keep that band for her.
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@andriaperry (118754)
• Anniston, Alabama
13 Apr
I hope that her eyes heal quickly.
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@shaggin (74144)
• United States
27 Apr
@andriaperry thank you me to. She hates the bifocals she prefers to just take the glasses off and get closer to things in front of her then to wear the darn things 
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@Treborika (17893)
• Mombasa, Kenya
14 Apr
I hope that the glasses would really be of great help in the truth of the matter.
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@shaggin (74144)
• United States
20 Apr
@Treborika I sure hope so too. The alternative if the drops don’t work would be awful.
@shaggin (74144)
• United States
21 Apr
@grenery8 this doctor has had retinal detachment three times in her life so she knows how serious it can be. My little ones eyes seem to be in the same condition her aunts were at the same age so I know where things are headed and am glad it’s caught early and being treated. We are waiting for her glasses to come in still.
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@shaggin (74144)
• United States
5h
@wolfgirl569 yes me too. I wonder if we had caught it even sooner if her eyes would never have gotten so bad. I’m mad at myself.
@RasmaSandra (84353)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Apr
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,
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@shaggin (74144)
• United States
4h
@RasmaSandra all of my kids got their eyes from their fathers . My oldest was born with nystagmus, my middle one a lazy eye and my littlest high progressive myopia. I have perfect vision. Both my husbands needed glasses at an early age not quite this early though.
. My oldest was born with nystagmus, my middle one a lazy eye and my littlest high progressive myopia. I have perfect vision. Both my husbands needed glasses at an early age not quite this early though.
@sallypup (64014)
• 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.
@LindaOHio (187306)
• United States
13 Apr
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 (17893)
• Mombasa, Kenya
13 Apr
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
