Eyesight getting worse with perimenopause?

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I've always been shortsighted but my eyesight has got quite a bit worse over the last year which coincides with the time I've been on HRT. It's got half a diopter worse. It's becoming more myopic which is the opposite of what I'd expect in my 40s.
Is this just one of those things (too much screen time)? Or is it a weird perimenopause symptom or HRT side effect?
Has anyone else noticed this?

My eyes get really dry which makes sight worse.

I have dry eyes too @EthicalNonMahogany but I'm not sure it's got any worse with perimenopause.

Mine too! But I think it Gets worse when I'm on my phone too much too 🙈😉

Is it anything to do with your eyesight just getting worse with age - eg presbyopia? I did have 20/20 vision until I was 47 when it went all at once. Apparently it happens to everyone but not sure how it manifests if you already need glasses.

I also have a dry eye and severe allergy issue thanks to peri, which I really hate.

Min whist weep all the bloody time, prescription hasn't changed.

Have you had one of those scans that checks the back of your eye ? The one the optician does.

Yes, the optician did all of the eye health scans @KangarooKenny and said the eyes look healthy so she couldn't see any obvious reason for the change.

@PauliesWalnuts I think the usual change is to struggle to see things close up (so you need reading glasses). If you already wear glasses for short sightedness, you end up needing different glasses for reading close up and seeing in the distance (or varifocals). But I'm just getting more myopic!

And yes @onagain - I think that might be my problem too. Too much staring at a tiny screen!

Happened to me too OP. I wore reading glasses for comfort/ease for many years, then over the space of 2 years became totally dependent on them to read texts, the price of things etc. after a brief spell of having them on a chain (job required a lot of walking about then reading things) I graduated to varifocals with a very tiny distance prescription.

Then my distance vision went and I now can't see a bastard thing without my specs on. The good news it it almost completely stabilised by the time I was actually at menopause and so far require only minor tweakage every 2 years. Still costs me a fortune in fancy lenses...

No idea whether it was really peri related but my optician, of similar vintage to me, did mutter about "when you get to our age...".

Yes I had this coinciding with peri and hrt. Always had perfect eye sight but suddenly one eye is long sighted and the other is near sighted. Eyes have been checked and no specific reason for the change.

I’m reading davina menopausing at the moment and although I’m not very far through yet it has been mentioned and it’s something I remember happening. It did improve eventually.

I didn't use HRT but did find my fairly mild myopia seemed to worsen when menopause symptoms began. In retrospect I think it was more down to the increasing brain fog and exhaustion I was experiencing, plus more use of screens in daily life.
Now that most of my menopausal symptoms have eased (last period was five years ago) and my energy has largely returned, my eyesight seems to have improved a little.

It's normal for eyesight to deteriorate from 40's, men too - I'm not beholden to varifocals

Yes, happened to me. I was short-sighted anyway and wear contacts mostly. A couple of years ago I started to notice that I was struggling to see small print and close up work. I went to the opticians and I need reading glasses. If I don’t wear my contacts then I don’t need them - weird. My distance vision has deteriorated too. I’m 50. Menopause started at 45.
I am seriously considering laser surgery.
Feeling old!!!