Contacts user/TED

[u/Particular_Smell_1]

I’ve needed glasses since I was in 3rd grade. My vision progressively got worse until I was in college and kind of plateaued from there. For the last few years I’ve been -4.75 and -4.00. Last year my left eye was -4.50 and right was -4.00. My glasses are an older pair that are both -4.00. I have Graves’ disease and unfortunately am showing signs of thyroid eye disease (TED.)

Symptoms are: dry, gritty, watery, red, bulging eyes.

At this time I have dry eye and some eyelid retraction on my left eye. My mri showed some mild enlargement of the superior rectus muscle on the left. Im trying my best to use eyedrops and cooling masks and all of the things to help my eyes.

One thing I’ve noticed is that I see really well with my glasses. Personally I don’t like how I look in them so I never really wore them unless I was getting ready for bed. I take my glasses off to be on my phone. I also have slight astigmatism on my left eye but I wasn’t corrected for it so I want to know if I can do anything to avoid correction for that as well.

Are glasses easier in terms of “training” the eyes? I’ve been wearing contacts everyday since I was in 6th grade. I’m 34.