I know that this is typical for older people, and that they usually have two pair of glasses – one for reading, the other for TV, or they have bifocal glasses. What I don’t understand is if the myopia is a symptom that light is focused before the retina and hyperopia behind the retina, how can it be both?
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You cannot have both conditions in the same eye, however you can have either condition with presbyopia. Presbyopia is the process of the lens losing it’s flexibility to change focus. What that means is if you’re myopic, you have to take your glasses off to read(unless you have a multifocal), and for hyperopes, they’ll need reading glasses of some sort to see close up items.
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