I was told about 25 years ago that I was going to need reading glasses ("eye crutches"). I ignored the suggestion and instead started practicing various eye exercises based on the Bates Method of eye improvement. Suffice it to say, I'm 56 years old and only wear the weakest prescription I was able to argue out of my optician. I wear my glasses only at night when I'm reading in bed or that I wear when I'm really tired and stressed out, in very poor light or when I have to read that ultra-teeny tiny print they have on certain medicine bottles.
Other than those exceptions, I still don't wear glasses and my vision is fine, so long as I do my eye exercises.
The thing is, the exercises aren't hard!
Here are a couple of resources you can avail yourself of if you don't want to wear eye crutches, have some doctor cut into your eyeballs or something else like that:
Here's a really good presbyopia (farsightedness: need "reading glasses") reduction exercise that really works if you work at it :
http://www.i-see.org/gottlieb/presbyopia_chart.pdf
Here's a more advanced version of the exercise. It's pretty hard so don't try it until you're very comfortable with the first exercise:
http://www.i-see.org/gottlieb/string_of_pearls.pdf
A good program you can usually find on ebay for cheap (the program new costs a couple hundred dollars: I bought mine on ebay for about $10) is the "See Clearly Method." It's very easy to do and very much worth looking around on ebay for.
Here's a copy on ebay right now:
http://tinyurl.com/5zxko5
This one is on CD. The one I got was on VHS and had a hard copy book to go along with it. Take your pick. It's just a matter of deciding what version you want and then hunting for it (pun intended).
Lastly, if you're the kind of person who likes to fully understand what you're doing, a good book on the subject is
Relearning to See by Thomas Quackenbush. You can get it more cheaply used on bookfinder.com or you can buy it new on amazon.com at
http://tinyurl.com/6r5rhm
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