I am considering doing laser eye surgery. I am considering alternatives.

I am 33 years old. My vision is -6.0 diopters in both eyes. When I was 10 I could see the board perfectly from the back of the row. A couple of my friends got glasses. I wanted them desperately so I faked my first eye exam.

The doctor asked me to read the letters “F D N L”. Not only could I read the letters, but they were HUGE. But I was so afraid that the doctor would not give me glasses that I lied. We did the “better or worse” thing for a while, and I made sure my answers were consistent & there was my prescription. In hindsight, my doctor may have been a little lazy, but what can I say?

Literally a couple of weeks later, I broke the glasses. I could then see nothing from the back of the class. In fact to see the board, i had to sit in FRONT of the first row. I asked an optometrist how to reverse this. She told me that there is no way that my wearing the wrong prescription actually affected my vision. She told me that around the age of 10 is when the eyesight of most people who will need vision correction will change. She said that this was simply a coincidence in timing.

I simply disagree based on my own unique experience… From perfect to severe nearsightedness in a few weeks doesn’t make sense to me. Also, no one in my family on either side wear glasses with any prescriptions worse than -0.25 diopters. So I have no heredity factors, etc.

Given the information above, are there any medical professionals who think a natural vision therapy may help me? Or should I try CRT? Or should I stick with laser therapy after all this time?