very often people don't realize there's
something wrong with their vision you
know ghiyath it's always been this way
isn't this the way it's supposed to be
why should I go see an eye doctor
how would I know that there's anything
wrong with my eyes a lot of people will
say gee I never wore glasses why do I
need them now and it has to do with the
aging of the structures within the eye
the fancy name for that is presbyopia
and so some things will tell you right
you're noticing that your vision is
becoming blurry you're noticing that you
have a new spot floating around in your
eye
you're noticing that there's a veil or a
curtain over your vision or that there
are flashing lights off to one side let
me give you a startling statistic 80% of
correctable vision loss in this country
is due to an error that can be corrected
with glasses and glasses focus the light
in the proper place in the back of the
eye on the retina which is the nerve
tissue that senses light and you can
have good sharp focus if all you have is
this trouble focusing one of the
annoying things that happen as we get
older is that you have trouble reading
you have trouble reading that because
you don't understand the words but
because they're not in focus people joke
about their arms getting too short but
the reality is that you're not able to
focus on things that are closed up for
people who are farsighted that can
happen during your 30s for people who
are nearsighted may not be until your
50s or 60s that you have that problem
for most people it happens sometime
during their 40s then there are things
that don't have symptoms people call
glaucoma the sneak-thief of sight
because there are no symptoms people can
get glaucoma quite young in fact babies
can get glaucoma every two or three
years is probably a reasonable frequency
to see an eye doctor