The Best Ways to Correct Hyperopia: From Glasses to LASIK Surgery

Not only does hyperopia, otherwise known as farsightedness, affect millions of people, but it’s also one of the most common eye problems. If you have this, you struggle to see things up close. Instead of objects appearing sharp and clear, they look blurry.
 

In other words, you can see things at a distance better than you can when they’re closer to your eyes. Usually, it’s adults that need to have this corrected as opposed to children. That’s because, while young, the eye’s lenses and muscles squint more effectively. For that reason, children can often overcome hyperopia without needing glasses.

What Causes Hyperopia?

With farsightedness, light rays that help the eyes focus are ineffective. To see things clearly, the cornea, which is the clear outer layer of the eye, and the lens work together. They make it possible for the eyes to focus on images directly on the retina.
 

However, two things can cause the image to end up behind the retina as opposed to directly on top of it. First, having an eye that’s too short. Second, not having adequate focusing power. Either way objects a short distance away look blurry.
 

Hyperopia is something that babies have at birth. Typically, it runs in families, so you probably have relatives with this condition. Although frustrating, farsightedness is correctable.

Common Symptoms

Anything close would appear blurry. In addition, you might experience eye strain, headaches, and fatigue, especially after reading. It can also cause an aching or burning sensation around your eyes.

Corrective Measures

An eye care professional can recommend several solutions to correct hyperopia. It comes down to whatever’s safe, comfortable, and able to improve your vision the most. So, if you’re having trouble with your vision, don’t wait to have your eyes checked. After all, following a confirmed diagnosis, an eye care specialist can provide you with different options.

Eyeglasses

Wearing prescription eyeglasses is the easiest way to correct hyperopia. For this, a laboratory would make the lenses in a way that allows light to enter your eyes. As a result, you would see up close objects clearly without any problem.

Contact Lenses

This, too, is an excellent way to correct hyperopia, although some people have a hard time wearing contacts. However, if you’re not one of them, they would work in the same way as prescription eyeglasses. In other words, they would alter how light enters your eyes.

As a bonus, you can choose colored contact lenses if you want. Not only would you see better, but you would also have the opportunity to change your eye color.

LASIK Surgery

While a more invasive way to correct hyperopia, this type of eye surgery works well for a lot of people. Thanks to advances over the years, it’s considered both safe and effective. Even so, your eyes would go through a healing process. Usually, it takes between three and six weeks to fully reap the benefits.

Immediately following LASIK surgery, you will notice a dramatic improvement in how you see. Then, it would gradually settle. By the time three to six weeks pass, you can expect greatly improved vision.

Professional Help for Hyperopia

Hunter Family Vision offers safe solutions for all kinds of vision problems, including hyperopia. We have years of experience helping patients just like you. To have an exam, you can contact either one of our locations. First, there’s the Prairie Village, Kansas, location at 913-381-2323. Second, you can reach our Leawood, Kansas, clinic by calling 913-681-8555.