[ConservativeMind]

Another item that helps with preventing glaucoma is to literally back off your nearsighted prescription. I got nearly to -5 diopters in each eye, but found how I could relearn how to relax my inner eye muscles and I walked back my prescription back to the low -3 area for both eyes.

The key is to make a conscious effort to look at something fuzzy and learn what lets your eye focus. Interestingly, to see further away, you have to relax your eye focusing muscles. This is what we forget to do, when we look close up too long, every day.

Glaucoma risk shoots up radically when your prescription gets to -5 diopters, and above. People who get LASIK can permanently lock in these diopters, which means you still have the prior prescription, but permanently.

You will typically note you see further away in the early morning and your prescription needs gets worse through the day. This is the daily example of what you do to your eyes. Your eye muscles are staying stressed and not relaxing back to when you woke up.

You can actually go beyond this daily effect and get even better.

[George from New England]

I had the cataract process. Did monovision. One eye focuses 15 inches, the other distance. Almost never use any glasses xcept rx sunglasses driving on real sunny days