Can you ever reach a point where prescription glasses won’t improve your sight?

[Goldistheanswer]

I collected some glasses from Vision Express two months ago and when I went back for a follow up, I explained that I didn’t feel that they gave me much clearer long distance sight. They said that they wouldn’t be ever able to improve on what I had in terms of prescription! I thought, perhaps naively, that opticians can prescribe/fix most vision problems and I still cannot understand why I’m now facing the rest of my life coping with blurred vision. ☹️

It won't help with issues like cataracts but rigid gas permeable contacts give much better clarity and depth of visual than glasses.

That’s horrible for your son MrsAvocet particularly when young people his age are driving. It’s such a difficult age and he must feel really frustrated. I hope that this attempt will prove successful for him.

Also agree with checking at a different optician. I once had one insist I just needed to get used to the new prescription, and also that they couldn't get it any better for me. It eventually turned out they'd got the fit wrong.

Thanks Alocasia - we hope so too as we live in a rural area with no public transport so it would really make a big difference for him to be able to drive. He is just about the only one of his friends who still needs to be dropped up and picked up by a parent now and its embarrassing for him.
There seems to be a bit of a difference in opinion between our own optician and the hospital staff unfortunately so its a bit awkward. I'm thinking of asking for another opinion as I would really like to get things sorted asap, or at least to be told definitively that this is as good as it gets then we can make plans accordingly. Fingers crossed!

Thanks Goldistheanswer I hope so as its starting to affect his self esteem.
I hope you get sorted out too. I think many people underestimate how problematic visual problems can be. Lots of people have said that I worry too much about DS as "its only an eye problem" without understanding how it impacts on his life.