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Don’t Wait To Schedule Your Next Eye Exam

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Making sure you stay up to date with all of your appointments is important. Scheduling your annual check-up for different areas of your body is vital in keeping up with a healthy lifestyle. Three very important exams to get are physicals, pap smears for those with a vagina and eye exams. For everyone, a yearly eye exam is essential for more reasons than just to see where your sight levels are at. A scheduled eye exam could be saving you from worsening symptoms you didn’t even know you could get.

Why It’s Important To Get A Routine Eye Exam

Getting a routine eye exam is necessary. First and foremost, your eyes need to be checked to know where your vision stands. If you have trouble seeing near or far distances or struggle with light or the ability to see when driving at night, then an eye exam can help you determine what can help correct your vision. Correcting your vision improves your everyday life.

Secondly, a routine eye exam can show if there are any hidden medical issues that of course would be impossible for you to know of without an exam. This could show you if you are living with an eye disease such as cataract, glaucoma and/or others.

If you are living with an unknown eye disease and you go too long without getting the proper help and treatment, this can result in loss of sight. A simple check-up can help prevent that possible outcome. 

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What You Could Be Unaware Of

Getting an eye exam annually is also important to do if you are living with certain illnesses and diseases. Some diseases show that they may be getting worse, through your eyes. There are many things you could be unaware of that are happening and an eye exam, in some cases, can actually tell you what may be going on.

For example, say you are living with high blood pressure and are unaware of it, an optometrist can detect that you may have high blood pressure because eye problems are a symptom of high blood pressure. The same goes for diabetes as well. If you are unknowingly living with diabetes or prediabetes, the eye doctor could bring awareness to it with a check-up. 

You could also be living with eye damage due to an already known disease since it can cause damage to other areas of the body, like sickle cell disease.

Living With An Illness Makes Eye Exams Crucial

An Illness like sickle cell disease is inherited and this means that there’s no real way to prevent yourself from having sickle cell disease if both of your parents have it. With that being noted, sickle cell disease has the ability to cause eye damage over time, which is why regular eye exams are crucial.

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