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Originally Posted by Rabbit

I'm 31. The hard part about the vision change on bp meds for me is that it isn't consistent. Sometimes I can see. Sometimes I can't. There's distortion beyond what I've ever experienced when I needed new glasses, and I've been wearing glasses since I was 11.

That is what I am noticing too. It seems like at times I see better than at other times even within one day.

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Originally Posted by FaithHopeLove

It could also be damage from the high BP prior to meds, but also your age. I'm learning, because it is happening to me, that in your 40's, the muscles that control being able to focus up close and then far away weaken and basically stop working so well. Suddenly, I have to take my glasses OFF in order to read up close (I'm near sighted). I notice myself looking all around my glasses to focus on things, and then through them to focus far away. So it could be that.

Actually, an eye dr explained to me that the muscles in our eyes work just as well as ever. It is the lens that becomes less flexible. So the muscles are pulling on it, but it is not stretching the way it used to.
I was able to take off my glasses or look under them and read ok, but now on the meds I cannot always do that. Sometimes I can read small print through the glasses if I hold it at a certain distance, but sometimes I just can't. And I work in a dept store and have to read upc numbers off of clothing and boxes and things and it is frustrating to have such trouble at times.