Is their an age that you would consider too young for glasses? Being that children's eye's change so quickly is it worth getthing them, knowing that they will change in the next few months? Our insurance only pays for one pair of glasses per year. But child's eyes can change constantly thought that year. Just wondering what your thoughts are.
I was just reading up on children and glasses online. I came across several articles satating that Dr's recommend eye exams at 3yrs of age, then 6yrs and then every two years after that. I don't get the reasoning behind the every two years, being that they also go into explaining how much the eye can change within months for a child.
I can only relate our own experience. My dd needed glasses at 5. She was already reading, but having trouble. And yes, her prescription can change greatly over a year, but some corrective lenses is better than none at all. She is sooo nearsighted she cannot read a book that is a foot away from her face w/o glasses. Our insurance also only pays for glasses once a year (and frames only every other!).. She has asked for contact lenses now that she's approaching 12. However, since her eyes are still changing quite a bit, we'll hold off on that. Again, insurance only pays for glasses OR contacts. Once it seems her eyes are stabilizing, we'll consider contacts. carol
My ds wears glasses for reading and we were just in two days ago and they haven't changed. We did order new glasses, but his old ones he has had for three years. That is when he first started wearing them and he hasn't out grown them.
We got Bill when he was two years old and he already had glasses then. Babyboy, the little boy we keep during the day and consider our third grandson, will be three on Monday and had been in glasses for way over a year. He can't see any distance without them. The day he got his first pair he couldn't get enough of looking at trees. I think it was the first time he realized what leaves were.
I needed glasses as a young child and I am glad that my parents invested the money in order to help my vision and ever changing prescription.
With Lance we got his at 12 months, his eyes were bad and still are. They've already changed each time, but like another poster said, it's better to have something. Adam we didn't get glasses until he was 2 because we had no insurance and I didn't think he would need them. Then one day his eye started crossing so we took him in and he needed them. My step daughter also has glasses, she got them around 5, since we're 3 for 3 with glasses, I'm seriously thinking about going to the hospital when this one is born with glasses for him! :lol:
Jacob wore glasses at 4 and 5 then he got out of them with great eye sight, He started getting close to books and thats when I decided to take him up, I am so glad i cought it early, and he was good about wearing them, Lucky for him he is out of them, I have had glasses since i was in 6th grade and I HATE THEM!
My ds needed glasses at 4. His handwriting improved dramaticlly after getting the glasses. His prescription changed some each year, but not drastically. He has since outgrown reading glasses, but now needs them for distances, so he still has glasses. DD7 has glasses to correct amblyopia. I did have to replace her glasses within the first year, but it was due to a huge improvement that she would not have had without wearing glasses. She currently sees 20/80 (from 20/200) with a lens for her left eye. So, yes, I'd say if your child needs them, get them. If not they may pay for it later in life.
I was just bothered that a relative of mine told me that my 6yr old was too young to get them and probably doesn't really need them.
What? That's crazy, I'd be bugged too if a relative told me that. There are sooo many little ones in glasses. Our doctor recommended 12-18 months, especially with our history for glasses. It does help a ton. Adam's eye does not cross nearly as bad when he does have his glasses.
Yeah, I know. Some things bug me and others do not, but this is a relative I actually like. Then she went into saying, "well your dd is very young for 1st grade, my kids didn't get tested until they were between K and 1st". I wonder if she is just still sore about her child being in K and mine in 1st when they are only a month apart? That was her choice though, and hs'ers prerogative to put their child in whatever grade they deem fit. If that wasn't enough I mentioned that dd was very excited to pick out a pair and wanted them right away. Relative says, "well dd just doesn't know about peer pressure and self exteem right now". Just comments like that make a person feel bad for their child. Even though the child didn't hear it.
We took our son in at a very young age because we suspected lazy eye. The doctor said he didn't have lazy eye, but was nearsighted - but we should wait until he started school to get him glasses. The doctor's reasoning was that a kid's world is pretty close up, so it wasn't needed at a very young age. That being said, Davy's eyes weren't all that bad. If they had been worse, we would have gotten him glasses earlier and just paid for the new ones when he needed them. As for contacts - my brother's eyes were changing so rapidly the doctor felt he would be legally blind in a few years. He suggested contacts in order to stabilize the eyes - because they are right in the eyes they can prevent them from changing so fast. My brother hated the contacts, but had no choice but to wear them. I didn't get them until I was 17, but I LOVED them!!
DD was around 7 when she got her glasses. She wore them for reading and all seat work and they helped tremendously. She just had an eye check with the school nurse and it was good but her OT suggested that we take to a pediatric eye specialist and he did more indepth testing and said she needed glasses. She can do alot without the the glasses but does still use them for reading fine print and various other seat work.
My nephew had them at 10 months. They discovered the issue because of a droopy eyelid. My DD needed them her entire life but it wasn't discovered until she started reading well (but the print got too small). She has struggled due to an underdeveloped lazy eye that could have easily been strengthened at a younger age. Instead, she was 7 and had to wear a patch almost all day for 9+ months. Her eye is much better but it could have just as easily NOT worked because your eyes slow down developing by age 10 or so. So, if they need glasses (or even if they don't), I highly recommend seeing an optometrist or opthalmologist by age 3. As for glasses, many docs have special pricing for kids glasses (which include a warranty). My sister pays like $300-400 for kid glasses where she goes in MO but my eye doc has a special pricing we pay $129 and it includes a replacement warranty. So shop around. Rhonda C.
My mom say the first thing I noticed when I wore my new glasses outside was that the trees had leaves on them.
Michael wore glasses when he was age five. He had eye muscle surgery in March of 2005 to correct his eye problems. Shortly after that did not need eye glasses.
I started wearing glasses at 6 after my first grade teacher noticed I was copying words off the board with crazy spellings and I told her that was the way they were written. I remember getting my glasses and taking them on and off and realizing that the new clear way of seeing was what everyone else saw all the time!
