9yo says things look blurry but optician says eyes are fine

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Anything else I should worry about? She has just had a full check up at optician (dh took her so I didn't get to ask all my questions) so presumably they would have checked eye health generally, and they said she does not need glasses. But she insists things are blurry when far away.

Is it possible she would just like glasses? What sort of distance is she saying things are blurry at, I mean is it just that those things really are too far away to be clear?
Opticians are very used to children saying they can’t see because they want glasses. They do switch things around during the testing and recheck at another part of the test with a lens they previously said they couldn’t see with. They would have done a full eye health check. If you are concerned you could phone and ask to speak to the optician so you could ask the questions you want to ask.

Yes I was just saying that to dh - that I think she wants glasses because some of her friends have them (and Harry Potter!). Yes that is a good idea re phoning optician - I hadn't actually thought of that. Also I bet her eyes magically improve now she has been told she doesn't need them. She gets a lot of aches and pains (some real some not) including very painful 'growing pains' and a full blood test at beginning of this year showed a low vitamin d count so she takes supplements. I guess I want to ask the optician if either of these - the low vitamin d or the taking of the supplement - could make it blurry. She is also suffering from hayfever this year so i want to ask whether this might contribute to blurry eyes.

It could be a visual processing difficulty which is not picked up in a standard NHS eye test.

No, vitamin D supplementation wouldn’t make things blurry, neither would a visual processing problem for distance.
Slight dry eye could, some hay fever medication can cause slight dryness, but it’s unusual in a child that age and would have been picked up.
As a PP said, we’re good at changing test methods to pick up actual visual loss.
I wouldn’t worry.

As a PP said could be a visual processing difficulty- if it persists try a behavioural optometrist

Is she hypermobile?

@UpTheLaganInABubble She is hypermobile yes - why?

Thank you @underneaththeash that is reassuring x

Growing pains, eyesight blurriness, and vit D deficiency can all be signs of Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder/ Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

I obviously can’t say if she’s got EDS or a connective tissue disorder. But the ocular manifestations of both would be obvious in an eye exam. (It’s usually lens subluxation, which could cause transient changes in vision). Other manifestations manifest themselves as being unable to see the bottom line in the chart.

Is it short term blurriness corrected by the time of eye test?
I’ve been using screens far too much including new iPad (different screen resolution) and my eyes can be bad for a few hours after prolonged usage - recover after some time. Si gun for me that I need to put screens down. Could it be something transient like this ?
Good luck op.

My DD was the same. Went for eye test ,optition was very sorry with her basically calling her a liar !! Saying she can see perfectly well. Dd kept saying she can't and was b getting headaches. So we went to another optition who said she had psudomyopia (sp). She is also hypermobile. I didn't know that is effects the eyes , so will look in to that , thank you.

Get a second opinion to double check. My dd started squinting every now and again aged 3. I took her to one optician who said he thought she was fine!
I wasn’t happy/didn’t agree so asked GP to refer her to the eye hospital. Turned out she was +4.00 in both eyes! She wears glasses now.