Can’t you get presbyopia if you are nearsighted?

  Can’t you get presbyopia if you have myopia? Dr. Liao Aiping of the Femtosecond Excimer Laser Myopia Treatment Center at Nanhai Hospital says: No!  In fact, presbyopia, like skin relaxation and osteoporosis, is a normal physiological phenomenon of human aging, manifested as a decline in adjustment power, clear vision at a distance, easy fatigue and even difficulty in seeing near, requiring the assistance of glasses.  Patients with farsightedness have the earliest symptoms of presbyopia, while those with orthokeratology begin to experience presbyopia at the age of 40, and those with myopia a little later. According to the eye condition and physical quality, each person has deviations in wearing glasses, such as wearing myopic glasses without the full prescription, or taking off myopic glasses can solve the problem of near vision difficulties, it can cover up the presbyopia condition, the illusion of myopic eyes will not be presbyopic.  Myopia laser surgery is equivalent to making a pair of “nearsighted glasses” on the cornea to assist in improving distance vision, which only solves the problem of nearsightedness, and presbyopia will occur around the age of 40 according to normal people. It is not that presbyopia is likely to occur after laser surgery.