Are Pinhole Glasses A Scam?
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My eyes seem to be getting weaker and I’ve been told that nearly every optician prescribes over-strength glasses in order to weaken your eyes so that you have to buy new ones every year.
Not very nice
I heard about pinhole glasses and just checked them out on the web and the idea sounds kind of weird and I wonder if anyone has tried them, and if they work or not.
If you have any info then please post and let me know.
Thanks

Hi,
I can promise you that pinhole glasses work!
I’ve been using them for about 15 minutes every morning for seven years now – you have to use them if you want your eyes to get stronger
Two years after I started using pinhole glasses I went to have my reading glasses checked and was told that my eyes had got stronger and that I needed weaker reading glasses.
I tried telling the surprised ophthalmologist what I’d been doing but he either feigned disinterest or just didn’t want to learn about them.
The reading glasses that he prescribed were almost the weakest possible and I’m stiill using them, five years later.
Pinhole glasses, also called stenopeic glasses, are eyeglasses with lenses that consist of many tiny holes filling an opaque sheet of plastic.
These “pinholes” block indirect rays from entering the eye, thus preventing them from distorting your vision and while this does not actually improve the focusing ability of the eye, it does reduce the size of the blur circles so that reasonably clear vision may be achieved, so If you try on a pair of pinhole glasses, you’ll almost certainly notice an improvement in your vision.
Most people would be reluctant to wear the glasses however, as they are not very fashionable.
What’s more, it should be noted that pinhole glasses reduce both brightness and peripheral vision, and therefore are unsafe to wear while driving or operating machinery.
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I was just checking out some of the posts and replies and came across this one, and Eagerwatcher’s reply prompted me to simply mention what just happened to me a couple of days ago.
I went and got my eyes tested after not visiting an optician for around four years and was told that I’d need a slightly weaker prescription!
And what’s perhaps even more amazing is that I got told the same thing about 6 years ago.
And “yes” I have used pinhole glasses for around 7 years and I do use them for around 15 minutes every morning.
And “no” I get nothing for writing this except the hope that perhaps some readers will use them instead of weakening their eyes every day.
Not sure if this true but I will try to use this as soon as possible
I can only tell you that they work for me.
I’m 66 and my eyes are a little better than they were several years ago.
In fact my 9 year old granddaughter’s school recommended yesterday that she get her eye tested, and I said, “why not, but if there’s a problem then let her try my pinhole glasses for a few weeks before wearing probably over prescribed lenses that will weaken her eyes”.
I make no money from the recommending them
This is a great way of showing how they work.
On a beach and not it a home or lab.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjaQKYnx15A&feature=player_embedded
Pinhole glasses are definitely NOT a scam. I’ve significantly reduced my prescription using them as well as doing eye exercises.
I am 68 and have needed 2.50 reading glasses for several years. A couple of years ago I began wearing my prescription glasses (which I hate) for driving. I studied all of the information available on pinhole glasses and ordered a pair. So far I am not impressed, but no one told me to just wear them for 15 minutes every morning. I felt like I had purchased a pair of Steve Martin’s sunglasses in the film, The Jerk. The comments here have motivated me to give them another shot.