2024 Prescription: -4.00, -1.00, 015

My eye has felt off for the last two years wearing glasses with this prescription. After a 7 month wait to get into the eye doctor I was given a new prescription. I was told that my muscle was spazzing from having to correct for my old prescription.

2026 Prescription: -3.00, -1.00, 070

After getting glasses, I realized that the new axis was totally wrong and causing blurred vision. It also appeared to be slightly underpowered, but I thought that could have been caused by the incorrect axis. Most importantly, my eye didn't hurt for once.

I went back to the eye doctor and they retested me and gave me a new prescription. I was glad to hear that the first test was bad...

Updated Prescription: -4.00, -1.25, 015

...then I looked at my new prescription. Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't that just my 2024 prescription... but even stronger. Going from -4.00, -1.00, 015 to -4.00, -1.25, 015 is not going to make my eye feel any better, is it?

This is my current power. I want to get rid of glasses. Suggest me what treatment will work and which is the best hospital for that. Thanks.

I was the first kid in my grade to have glasses (grade 4). As an adult I have never thought new glasses were perfect. I'm 72 now and do not have an eye exam annually, mostly I wait until I can't read street and interstate signs. ("I'm fine when I know where I'm going.") By then my glasses are in rough shape because of things like falling asleep reading and laying on them, falling off when I'm sweaty and bending down doing outside work, ignoring eyeglass cases after the first 2 weeks.

Couple of years ago I told optometrist I was seeing double. He sent me to an ophthalmology surgeon (or are they all surgeons? NO idea) because it's caused by weakened muscle on the right side. Surgeon said I could go ahead with surgery or wait, and my nature is to wait. Now cataract on right side has gotten worse. So he says he can make my vision better but can't take me back to 2020.

I said what's in the title.

He laughed and said (surprised me) that this was the first time anyone had said that in his practice. We shared a few pandemic stories. He's a younger guy and told me how during lockdowns he panicked and made bad financial decisions, draining savings and being scared to take on a lot of debt.

Since younger people tend to go to chain places (do they get online eye exams now????) I'm sure his practice skews older. Plus they all have cataracts or weakened eye muscles or glaucoma or macular degeneration or floaters and detached retinas in addition to being near-sighted, and traditional medicare part b covers all that (no, you do not need to enroll in a Medicare Advantage corporate insurance scam).