What Different Vision Prescriptions Look Like | WebMD

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Ever wondered what the "numbers" of your vision prescription really mean? Here's what to know about types of vision.
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  • @Jennifer-gv6pp
    @Jennifer-gv6pp3 жыл бұрын

    I used to have 20/15 vision on both eyes all the way up to this year where I had my check up and I’m 20/40 on right eye and 20/20 on left eye. I blame online school

  • @brunocascardo3327

    @brunocascardo3327

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol i slept all over online classes so my myopia didn't grow up that much 😂

  • @sophia0249

    @sophia0249

    2 жыл бұрын

    i feel like im gonna go blind

  • @electricityisgreat2767

    @electricityisgreat2767

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sophia0249 dont worry just reduce it as much as possible if online school and sleep earlier i guess

  • @alexxander966

    @alexxander966

    2 жыл бұрын

    Honestly some peoples eyes just randomly change over time. In 3rd grade I was 20/20in one eye, and the other my prescription contact (yes I was wearing ONE contact in 3rd grade lol) was -1.5. In middleschool, my good eye got worse and my bad eye stayed the same, and both my eyes were -1.5. In high-school both eyes went to -2.25. I've had that same prescription for ten years now. They haven't gotten worse, even though I spend a good 75% of the day on my phone or computer. The technology didn't make my eyesight any worse. In middle and highschool I didn't even have a smart phone or PC, but my eyesight still got worse because my body was growing and that caused the shape of my eyes to change over time. Thats all. If you're still in school, you're probably still growing, thats why your eyes changed. I highly doubt online school did that

  • @electricityisgreat2767

    @electricityisgreat2767

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alexxander966 im scared i will have had vision

  • @Deklectic
    @Deklectic3 жыл бұрын

    I see 20/15 with corrective lenses.... 😭😬 when they come off I gotta be a good 20/150.. 🤣🤣

  • @RedPMD
    @RedPMD2 жыл бұрын

    I can start to see blur past 1 foot... Using my phone is fine at normal distances but watching TV is impossible without glasses. The closer an object is. The better I see its details. The further an object is, the blurrier it is but like proper blur. The type of blur you add in photoshop called guassian blur.

  • @sassy2832
    @sassy28323 жыл бұрын

    I feel like I’m the only one that actually has to wear shitty glasses all my life 24/7 I have really really bad astigmatism and everything is completely blurry 😭I wish I could see normally

  • @CitiusVanen

    @CitiusVanen

    3 жыл бұрын

    Get lasik

  • @sassy2832

    @sassy2832

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@CitiusVanen I do want to I guess but I’m only 17 and I have to wait till I’m at least 25 before I can do it and I’m a bit scared of it 😭

  • @unmasktheredrum2887

    @unmasktheredrum2887

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sassy2832 get contacts, yes there much more cumbersome than glasses but their more clear

  • @20yearsago66

    @20yearsago66

    2 жыл бұрын

    I hate wearing glasses I look so bad in them my eye doctor says I shouldn’t wear contacts yet because I’m only 11 but I hate my glasses so much and I have to patch and it’s so blurry and annoying I also wish I could see normal

  • @toxic_gg867

    @toxic_gg867

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@20yearsago66 my sister has contact lenses but her vision is the same age bay has really bad vision

  • @melanietoth1376
    @melanietoth13762 жыл бұрын

    20/1400. Contacts are -9.5 plus major astigmatism. Sometimes my right eye just quits if stressed...too much reading, a long drive, etc.

  • @Hamboobies

    @Hamboobies

    2 жыл бұрын

    that sucks

  • @cranbers
    @cranbers2 жыл бұрын

    Not quite sure why this video was so short they could of done a lot more with it, but my vision before lasik was 20/200 They had to show lines and ask which direction they were going on the vision test I couldn't see the big A... I got lasik and could see like an eagle, better then ever in my life, I could see 20/15. Then a few years later I had to get correction again. So don't get lasik if you are in early 20's your vision may still change causing you to have to get glasses again ( just like if you were to need a increase in prescription. And you may not be able to get " top up" on lasik because there isn't enough material in your eye to remove to make it perfect again.

  • @TheRageCommenter

    @TheRageCommenter

    Жыл бұрын

    Eye doctor told me to wait until 25 to get lasik cuz that’s when your eyes stop changing

  • @badrikokaia4603

    @badrikokaia4603

    Жыл бұрын

    I have 20/25 in right eye and 20/400 vision in left eye before eye surgeries i had 20/35 in right eye and 20/225 in left eye im 15 years old but i did surgeries because i had keratokonus so there was no way of stopping its progress exept surgery.naw i have to wait age 21 and my vision gets after surgery 20/20 in right eye and in left eye my vision gets 20/40.

  • @melissaslegallyblindworld
    @melissaslegallyblindworld2 жыл бұрын

    I'm legally blind as I'm 20/200 in my right, along with tunnel vision (glasses only keep me stable, they don't correct my vision unfortunately), and totally blind in my left eye, so, yeah I'm up there in blindness alittle bit. So when I use something like my phone, I use a special accessibility feature called "TalkBack" which is the Android built in screenreader. I'm heavily auditorial due to my legal blindness, and I have ROP as I'm a 26 weeker, I'm 28 now.

  • @QwkSA

    @QwkSA

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why u don't do Lasik surgery

  • @melissaslegallyblindworld

    @melissaslegallyblindworld

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@QwkSA I already had laser surgery as a infant but it failed in the end, I had a total of 3 surgeries as an infant in the NICU but I still came out legally blind.

  • @nichhlmao5731

    @nichhlmao5731

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hey melissa i think you should go for icl ( implantable collamer lenses ) they are expensive but ig they're worth it and lifelong unless u get cataract and can them implanted again after successful cataract surgery.

  • @melissaslegallyblindworld

    @melissaslegallyblindworld

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nichhlmao5731 My left eye even if I where to implant it, I still wouldn't see. But I bet I might be able to wear a device someday that is like a wearible magnifier, which would help in reading alot. I appreciate the ideas though. Granted medical science is always advancing year by year. heck if you know Star Trek there's real medical tricorders coming out or in the works. which is amazing. However I bet in the future, future legally blind kids might be able to get a ocular implant or eye transplant.

  • @Runa_77ll

    @Runa_77ll

    Жыл бұрын

    @@melissaslegallyblindworld wait so the LASIK surgery didn't work for you and you can see the same way??

  • @a_diamond
    @a_diamond Жыл бұрын

    My husband and I both have horrible eye vision.. having our kid tested he has 20/10 vision.. We're both wondering how on Earth...

  • @Sta-ol7tv

    @Sta-ol7tv

    2 ай бұрын

    Because it's not genetic

  • @calisthenicsnoob9990
    @calisthenicsnoob99904 ай бұрын

    When they say when you see blurr at a distance, how big is this image?

  • @nenelevy9925
    @nenelevy99253 жыл бұрын

    What would a power of -5.50 be in 20/x? I don’t know how to calculate it.

  • @otiebrown9999

    @otiebrown9999

    3 жыл бұрын

    About 20/300

  • @nenelevy9925

    @nenelevy9925

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@otiebrown9999 😳

  • @cobaltdev

    @cobaltdev

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@otiebrown9999 what about -0.75

  • @eihfhbwerfhubwerfkuhbwerfu1509

    @eihfhbwerfhubwerfkuhbwerfu1509

    2 жыл бұрын

    I actually have -5.5 diopters and yeah on my glasses it says i have 20/145

  • @nerine4188
    @nerine4188 Жыл бұрын

    Sooo how do you measure hyperopia?

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown99992 жыл бұрын

    20/20 on my Snellen. Refraction +0.25 Diopters. Measured with Test Lenses.

  • @michellegossett8076

    @michellegossett8076

    2 жыл бұрын

    Mine is 20/2200 and -3.25

  • @Lexa_Mo
    @Lexa_Mo Жыл бұрын

    I’m a -1.5 in both eyes, probably 20/80 VA. That was at my last eye appointment a few months ago at least, but my prescription doubled from my first appointment to the next one under a year later so it may not be accurate now. Either way i can’t even see a T.V. That’s a few feet away from me. Just this morning my brother tried showing me something on his phone a few feet away and then laughed when he remembered i couldn’t see anything but the bright colors 😅

  • @badrikokaia4603

    @badrikokaia4603

    Жыл бұрын

    If you have -1.5 that means you have 20/30 vision and not 20/80.people who have 20/80 vision that means they have -4.00

  • @FireFly969

    @FireFly969

    Жыл бұрын

    I too can't see the tv, like let's say 5-6 meters, I don't see details at all, even people faces are blurred,

  • @Lexa_Mo

    @Lexa_Mo

    Жыл бұрын

    Gotcha. They must have told me wrong then because the first time when i was -.75 they said it was 20/50 so I was kind of going off of that. All I know is I can’t see lol 😂

  • @badrikokaia4603

    @badrikokaia4603

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Lexa_Mo i had -1.00 and my vision acuity was 20/30 and how your vision acuity is 20/50 on 0.75 they told you wrong

  • @badrikokaia4603

    @badrikokaia4603

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Lexa_Mo also -0.75 vision is close to normal and if you can't see that means you have higher myopia

  • @souliewrld
    @souliewrld Жыл бұрын

    what would a -8.00 prescription be in 20/x ?

  • @souliewrld

    @souliewrld

    Жыл бұрын

    @@lum967 my eyesights been getting bad since 2016. i had an eye exam a year ago in which both eyes were -8.00

  • @FrostedFlukes
    @FrostedFlukes3 жыл бұрын

    i recently got an eye check up and i have 20/15 vision. all my friends have glasses so i came to this video to see what it’s like for them 😂

  • @cranbers

    @cranbers

    2 жыл бұрын

    I had 20/15 vision after lasik for a short time, it is incredible, see like an eagle. Not anymore though, now im 20/60 after about 10 years.

  • @FrostedFlukes

    @FrostedFlukes

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cranbers yeah! It’s great. Im definitely very thankful I have good eyes

  • @cranbers

    @cranbers

    2 жыл бұрын

    @G E T R E K T lmao. It wasn’t a literal comparison. Figure of speech. Did you seriously think I was claiming to see as well as an eagle? They catch animals a few inches long from hundreds of feet away. Pretty sure human eyes don’t work that way. Lmao. I do think it’s funny you had to correct me on that.

  • @lemonlime9
    @lemonlime92 жыл бұрын

    I’m dealing with astigmatism and nearsightedness. My right eye is -1.00 & my left is -0.25. I really hope my vision is corrected 😭 I can’t deal with wearing glasses

  • @pikamew0390

    @pikamew0390

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m -5.50 in left and -5.0 in right

  • @goth5884
    @goth58843 жыл бұрын

    I have glasses, 20/70 in one eye and I’m guessing 20/80 ish in the other

  • @Spido68_the_spectator
    @Spido68_the_spectator3 жыл бұрын

    My eyes are doing accomosation madness which causes fatigue

  • @cookedgrass
    @cookedgrass3 ай бұрын

    I’m 20/15 but I haven’t gone to the eye doctor in like 5 years so it’s probably worse I’ve been inside a lot too since Covid

  • @The_Mining_Pickaxe
    @The_Mining_Pickaxe Жыл бұрын

    for some resason this makes the video with the guy saying 'im legally blind' a little funnier

  • @ahmadkarim1144
    @ahmadkarim11442 жыл бұрын

    I know I can see significantly better then by friends with 20/20 vision, but I never got tested

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown99993 жыл бұрын

    The DMV requires 20/70, 20/40, and 20/40 both eyes open.

  • @unmasktheredrum2887

    @unmasktheredrum2887

    2 жыл бұрын

    You can have up to around 20/800 and glasses will still correct down to 20/40 but once you get 20/1000+ glasses stop working, that’s when ur actually legally blind

  • @aa-ir6si

    @aa-ir6si

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@unmasktheredrum2887 legally blind is 20/200 or less in your BETTER eye

  • @aa-ir6si

    @aa-ir6si

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@unmasktheredrum2887 and that is including corrective eyewear.

  • @naarcissus
    @naarcissus2 жыл бұрын

    20/2100 and 20/2400 without glasses. Something has to be within about four-inches of my eye for me to see it clearly, but no closer than two-inches---without glasses. Everything beyond that about 60i with a broken de-interlacer. :sigh: Luckily corrective lenses get me close enough to proper vision that I can live mostly normal, after I put my glasses on in morning at least. That's, of course, assuming that I didn't knock them off the nightstand while feeling around for them and then step on them as I get of bed to retrieve them, in which case, the world is more fragmented. Depth perception still sucks though.

  • @michellegossett8076

    @michellegossett8076

    2 жыл бұрын

    I have 20/2200, might've gotten worse, idk how to know, but ik I have -3.25 Soo I don't know the difference, I just know that it's bad, and I'm only 16 :((

  • @naarcissus

    @naarcissus

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@michellegossett8076 Feel you there, got my first prescription in the third grade, wearing massive hunks of glass(before plastic was common), on my face was a real downer for anything but light socializing. Didn't do me any favors in high school either and let's not talk about middle school…. Could be worse though, could be blind, so I'm happy with what I've got, even if others have it better.

  • @vayasaberlo8
    @vayasaberlo88 ай бұрын

    I dont understand these references, my eyes are minus 16 diopter with added astigmatism & am almost blind without my sclerals😢

  • @kylovesite
    @kylovesite3 жыл бұрын

    I have a -5

  • @ramens
    @ramens3 жыл бұрын

    I feel as if my eyesight is worsening

  • @FireFly969
    @FireFly969 Жыл бұрын

    I see thing like trough the day like the 480 video quality, and at night like 240-360 🙂

  • @rand0mch1ld93
    @rand0mch1ld932 жыл бұрын

    I have -1.25 in my right eye and +1.00 in my left eye

  • @jerrylowe8615
    @jerrylowe86152 жыл бұрын

    I have R 20\30 L 20\25 and I see completely fine

  • @proxy_user_1235
    @proxy_user_123510 ай бұрын

    I used to have normal eyesight but ever since the pandemic and a long summer i been on my phone all the time and i blame myself and tiktok for that, left eye is 20/60 and roght eye is 20/150

  • @kalo999
    @kalo999Ай бұрын

    Bro when I’m sneaking around I lowkey wanna know how a person sees me bro like what vision is that I want it

  • @slowhand44857
    @slowhand448573 жыл бұрын

    I have 20/225 in my left eye and my bad eye its 20/275 haha

  • @Squandertakeagander
    @Squandertakeagander Жыл бұрын

    When webmd forgets about 20/10 and 20/5 vision

  • @ambrivertgaming2158
    @ambrivertgaming21582 жыл бұрын

    20/15 too

  • @ciderxera4963
    @ciderxera49632 жыл бұрын

    How the hell are people seeing 20/20 or better with glasses? I have pretty bad astigmatism and I see 20/40 or 20/60. :( I just wanna see

  • @secretbeach999
    @secretbeach9992 жыл бұрын

    20/15 here. What’s up. I see you.

  • @secretbeach999

    @secretbeach999

    2 жыл бұрын

    @G E T R E K T I see what you did there

  • @Dafunny.

    @Dafunny.

    Жыл бұрын

    20/3500

  • @secretbeach999

    @secretbeach999

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Dafunny. hell yeah

  • @alecboi777
    @alecboi7772 жыл бұрын

    im about a 20/40-20/80 i dont really know.

  • @badrikokaia4603

    @badrikokaia4603

    Жыл бұрын

    20/40 equals to -2.00 and 20/80 equals to -4.00

  • @I-hate-youtube797
    @I-hate-youtube79711 ай бұрын

    20/150 so apparently I’m 50 points away from legally blind lmfao. I never realized how bad my eyesight was. It can thankfully be corrected with glasses to 20/20

  • @znxblank
    @znxblank3 жыл бұрын

    "iM leGaLLY bLiND"

  • @cSedx00022

    @cSedx00022

    3 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on getting top comment

  • @znxblank

    @znxblank

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cSedx00022 thank you

  • @znxblank

    @znxblank

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cSedx00022 you are very nice thank you.

  • @cSedx00022

    @cSedx00022

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@znxblank No problem buddy

  • @RookkV

    @RookkV

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sad

  • @alexaguilar6009
    @alexaguilar60093 жыл бұрын

    I have about 20/500 I’ve been using glasses since I was 4 I’m 18 now

  • @wunwun1045

    @wunwun1045

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sad

  • @wunwun1045

    @wunwun1045

    3 жыл бұрын

    Me too I am 20/400

  • @dracomalfoy9108

    @dracomalfoy9108

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’ve been wearing glasses since I was six, and my vision is currently 20/1000 💀 I got it tested today, and I’m younger than you.

  • @franchescafleury2116

    @franchescafleury2116

    3 жыл бұрын

    I used to have the same vision I got LASIK the other day and now I have 20/20 vision and 20/25 individually

  • @kylovesite

    @kylovesite

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dracomalfoy9108 what 1k? really

  • @esteruwu1671
    @esteruwu16713 жыл бұрын

    -4.75 + severe astigmatism here :))))

  • @metrorackhead2101

    @metrorackhead2101

    3 жыл бұрын

    How long has it been like that? I got 20/200 vision and now am scared of going blind, or entering legal blindness.

  • @ozielcardenas8450

    @ozielcardenas8450

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@metrorackhead2101 u good bro u won’t go blind my 5 year old lil sister is 20/300 they said she gonna have to get a surgery when she’s older

  • @ohoh7855

    @ohoh7855

    3 жыл бұрын

    mines -5.5 :(

  • @unmasktheredrum2887

    @unmasktheredrum2887

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ozielcardenas8450 I have -5.5 age 17, my mom 4.5 age 43, sister -11 age 21, grandma -15 (my docs worst patient) age 70. Things aren’t looking so good for me.... literally.

  • @unmasktheredrum2887

    @unmasktheredrum2887

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@metrorackhead2101 my sister wasn’t legally blind till she was around 20/900. Remember it’s eyesight with glasses ON, but if ur sight gets that bad you’d probably have contacts since there stronger and glasses are like half a inch thick at those prescriptions

  • @vsaturated
    @vsaturated3 жыл бұрын

    I have 20/25

  • @lordbanetheplayer8844
    @lordbanetheplayer88443 жыл бұрын

    What about illegally blind?

  • @naarcissus

    @naarcissus

    2 жыл бұрын

    From Wikipedia: "In North America and most of Europe, legal blindness is defined as visual acuity (vision) of 20/200 (6/60) or less in the better eye with best correction possible."

  • @lordbanetheplayer8844

    @lordbanetheplayer8844

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@naarcissus I'm still illegally blind....😳😳😳😳

  • @naarcissus

    @naarcissus

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lordbanetheplayer8844 Whoops! Totally missed that last night. Damn. Well, as someone who's vision is way over the limit without corrective lenses (20/2100 in the better eye), I guess I am too. ☺🤔😐😑😶😢

  • @MexicanCrusader
    @MexicanCrusader Жыл бұрын

    20/79 here😕

  • @bradi9326
    @bradi93262 жыл бұрын

    Mine is 20/600

  • @Skyrimlover929
    @Skyrimlover9292 жыл бұрын

    B

  • @chennyukonlenphom5224
    @chennyukonlenphom52243 жыл бұрын

    Oh no....I'm legally blind

  • @aerol9995
    @aerol99952 жыл бұрын

    Ok i knew i was blind but damn i didn’t know legally i was 😭… 20/250

  • @L_stWord
    @L_stWord10 ай бұрын

    I have 20/400 wth

  • @kallmejello5793
    @kallmejello57932 жыл бұрын

    i have 20/13

  • @blacksheepgirl
    @blacksheepgirl2 жыл бұрын

    i have 20/200 vision and it doesn't look that bad. O_O

  • @morningstar3831

    @morningstar3831

    Жыл бұрын

    How it look like?

  • @lli0V3ll
    @lli0V3ll2 ай бұрын

    Im probably gonna be blind by the time im in early 20s

  • @TheGuyNobodyReallyLikes
    @TheGuyNobodyReallyLikes2 жыл бұрын

    Legally blind? I can't even see my phone clearly 3 inches away from my face.

  • @waylonbaker9223
    @waylonbaker9223 Жыл бұрын

    I’m -2.4/-4😭🤣

  • @coolscools5310
    @coolscools53102 жыл бұрын

    You may not belive this but I see a 4/20

  • @massimopecile9666
    @massimopecile9666 Жыл бұрын

    Even in this american are strange

  • @Nevelss
    @Nevelss2 жыл бұрын

    what if you have 20/0 😈

  • @theelectronomer2319

    @theelectronomer2319

    2 жыл бұрын

    Then... you're pretty much an alien. XD That would mean that for someone to see what you can see 20 ft away, that person would literally have to stick their faces to whatever they're looking at. Pretty much X-Ray vision at that point...

  • @boutiquebitcoin809
    @boutiquebitcoin809 Жыл бұрын

    Doctor said I'm 7.00

  • @iampenguintm6887
    @iampenguintm68878 ай бұрын

    Thank you! FOR NOTHING

  • @timothy4787
    @timothy47872 жыл бұрын

    dislike

  • @ahmadkarim1144
    @ahmadkarim11442 жыл бұрын

    I know I can see significantly better then by friends with 20/20 vision, but I never got tested

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