What Can I Expect with Moderate Hyperopia?
Patients with mild or moderate hyperopia will need glasses up close earlier than their emmetropic counterparts. They usually land up needing bifocals and are unhappy campers. These are patients who prided themselves on having 20/20 vision until their late thirties or forties. All of a sudden they can’t see at near and then they can’t see at distance. They loose at both distances. The optics of their glasses have more distortion than their myopic counterparts and they have more trouble with glasses and trouble seeing contact lenses to put them in their eyes. Fortunately, LASIK refractive surgery has come a long way in making them happy campers again. Patients with hyperopia can also wear glasses or contact lenses.
