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[Robot Parade Leader]

2 Years ago, I could read closed captions on the TV 5 to 10 ft away without glasses (I'm nearsighted).
Now I see things as blurry when it's 2 ft away without glasses.

Last time I had an eye exam was feb 2016. Then the doctor reduced my prescription and said I was less nearsighted.
He implied it was odd I mentioned my vision without glasses and said I was lucky to have it as good as I did.
I don't get it. He doesn't seem to think it's anything but requesting sugarcoating. I'm not that old.
How am I less nearsighted when i can't see better, but seem to see worse for distance.
Why does my vision without glasses not matter?

He did say my astigmatism got worse but wow.

Sidenote: I don't have diabetes (I got tested) so it's not that.  Is there anything I can do / stop doing?

[Harry Baldman]

I've had a few eye exams, the first found nothing, the second found minor astigmatism, the third found nothing again, and it was ultimately decided that my vision got slightly blurry sometimes mostly because of eyestrain. Could be a similar thing here. Does the blurriness come and go at times?

[Tiruin]

2 Years ago, I could read closed captions on the TV 5 to 10 ft away without glasses (I'm nearsighted).
Now I see things as blurry when it's 2 ft away without glasses.

Last time I had an eye exam was feb 2016. Then the doctor reduced my prescription and said I was less nearsighted.
He implied it was odd I mentioned my vision without glasses and said I was lucky to have it as good as I did.
I don't get it. He doesn't seem to think it's anything but requesting sugarcoating. I'm not that old.
How am I less nearsighted when i can't see better, but seem to see worse for distance.
Why does my vision without glasses not matter?

He did say my astigmatism got worse but wow.

Sidenote: I don't have diabetes (I got tested) so it's not that.  Is there anything I can do / stop doing?

Did you...ask these questions to your eye doctor? :O Because there's a LOT of context that they can know because of the method of communication. Here, we've to ask many things or put down contextual assumptions to give answers.

[martinuzz]

Astigmatism matters as much as lens curvature. So if your eye doc said your astigmatism got worse, get new glasses that compensate for that.
It could very well help with the tv text reading, or in any case prevent you from getting chronic headaches.

[TheBiggerFish]

If your problem is astigmatism you need to treat the astigmatism. That's why you're having trouble with captions, I'd bet.

[RoseHeart]

Get a second opinion(or even 3rd).

[ChairmanPoo]

Where we are going we don't need eyes to see...

[Caz]

2 Years ago, I could read closed captions on the TV 5 to 10 ft away without glasses (I'm nearsighted).
Now I see things as blurry when it's 2 ft away without glasses.

Last time I had an eye exam was feb 2016. Then the doctor reduced my prescription and said I was less nearsighted.

He did say my astigmatism got worse but wow.

So uhm... Did you get new glasses after this eye exam to correct the changes in astigmatism?

[x2yzh9]

I'm not sure about this but if any of you read reports from nasa the sun has been violently dimming and rising in luminosity over the past few years as a result of climate change or whatever. All I have to say is this effects everyone but some people are born with genetic eyesight problems.

[TheBiggerFish]

What?

That's not...

What...

[x2yzh9]

It's simple, climate change is starting to take effect and with the sun changing so damn much recently it's starting to effect people. Radiation, and eyesight problems. For instance they said if you look at the sun too long you'll go blind, well now we don't have that layer of protection the ozone gives so you don't even have to look at it for it to effect you....

Not trying to scare anyone just being realistic.

[Tiruin]

It's simple, climate change is starting to take effect and with the sun changing so damn much recently it's starting to effect people. Radiation, and eyesight problems. For instance they said if you look at the sun too long you'll go blind, well now we don't have that layer of protection the ozone gives so you don't even have to look at it for it to effect you....

Not trying to scare anyone just being realistic.

'Being realistic' also includes providing understandable data for the reader rather than assumptive implications going by concepts alone. There's a lot more to that than what you're giving off here as being realistic.
In pertinence to the thread--it is best to ask your eye doctor, as this thread cannot answer your queries other than give 'this probably affects this', but if the context and details by the OP is too general, there won't be much to help...especially if there's no response yet from the OP.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Good grief. The ozone layer has nothing to do with global warming, except that it's another case of People Fucking Up the Atmosphere Again.

[Tiruin]

Good grief. The ozone layer has nothing to do with global warming, except that it's another case of People Fucking Up the Atmosphere Again.

It actually does, given how those interactions are related, but not in the way x2yzh9's post implied. which has the notion of natural affect merely by itself. These are interrelated things, as it seems y'all all have your own definitions of those words which is why those extremes are being said to be as they are.
Discussing this should be taken to the relevant thread in GeneralDiscussion. :v