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I can count the times I have been to an optometrist my entire lifetime on one hand, which is a terrible omission. I think I had an eye exam to enter school and my next one wasn’t until I was enlisting in the Navy at 17. I know that as a child, pediatric eye care is really important, but I’ve had good eyesight most of my life, in stark contrast to my sister and mother who have always had bad vision. After my son was born, I started to notice that I had trouble seeing at night and I had headaches more frequently than ever before. I thought it might have been because I wasn’t using the appropriate blue light glasses similar to those offered by Felix Gray for computer screens but I knew it required further investigation regardless. I told my primary care physician, who said I was way overdue for an eye exam and sent me to an optometrist. She said I had developed an astigmatism in one eye, and she thought that was causing my vision issues and headache. She wrote a prescription for glasses and I slowly noticed that my symptoms diminished when I regularly wore my glasses. How often do you think about your eyes? It never crossed my mind that my issues were vision related. I assumed that since I didn’t need glasses the first 30 years of my life, that I should be fine until my vision diminished with age. Think About Your Eyes is a public awareness campaign, aimed at encouraging everyone to get an annual comprehensive eye exam. When was the last time you visited your optometrist?

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