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Your Eyes Common Eye Conditions: Presbyopia Presbyopia is a vision condition in which the crystalline lens of your eye loses its flexibility. This results is progressive difficulty in focusing on close objects. Your eye stops growing in your early teens. The lens, however, continues to grow and produce more and more cells. This continued growth eventually causes the lens to harden and lose some of its elasticity and therefore some focusing ability. Although presbyopia may seem to develop suddenly, the actual decline takes place over the course of many years. Presbyopia usually becomes apparent to people in their early to mid-forties. Some signs and symptoms of presbyopia include the tendency to hold reading material at arm's length, blurred vision at normal reading distance and eye fatigue along with headaches when attempting to do close work. Presbyopia cannot be prevented. It is a natural part of the aging process. The effects of presbyopia constantly change the ability of the eye's crystalline lens to focus properly. As a result, periodic changes in your eyeglasses or contact lenses are necessary to maintain good vision. To compensate for presbyopia, we may prescribe reading glasses, bifocals, trifocals, progressive addition lenses, contact lenses or refractive surgery.
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