Hello! I have, for a long time, had difficulty with my sight. It doesn't tend to happen in the middle distance, mostly short (reading), or long (signs and such). I have had glasses for long-distance this entire time, updated every two years.

Every time I go in for new glasses, I expect the glasses to fix the issue. They don't, I make a shocked face, and forget about it but grow increasingly frustrated. But recently when I was talking about it to my mother, she replied with something that made sense to me? That she had a similar issue and her optician had said that middle distance is where your gaze "rests", while other distances require effort to focus. I have hEDS and chronic fatigue (the latter of which has become very severe in the past year or so) so this kind of "clicked" as a possible explanation, because the nature of my issue is that I can concentrate, see what I need to see, and then instantly my vision starts to degrade.

Until recently, it was not hugely bad. Some signs I couldn't really see, and reading was too hard to keep refocusing. But it has got rapidly worse until I've had to increase the font size on my browser (and Reddit, which doesn't seem to respond to that, is set to 125% scale). Discord is now 20px instead of the default 16px which I'd always been fine with. Even these sizes are tiresome or even impossible to read most of the time but I have always hated big text and it's taking me time to adjust mentally to the changes.

In my optician test maybe a month ago, I reported this, the second time I've done so (the first time I was dismissed out of hand). She listened, but seemed unconcerned. However, doing the eye test was so difficult that she actually had to retest one eye. I'm guessing my results looked inconsistent due to the fact that I was constantly having to concentrate on fighting to bring the letter back into focus. If I didn't do that, honestly all the lenses looked like trash and it was hard to distinguish them.

But despite this, and despite me pointing out that this issue is why she had had to retest, I was sent away with a new glasses prescription and no other advice, referral, anything. So I don't really know what to do? I don't even know if I should be speaking to someone about this. "I can't see that" is rapidly becoming my most common phrase, when being shown things I could see fine last year, but an optician said nothing of note just a month ago so I feel like any attempt to ask to be evaluated would just be dismissed?

Honestly I'm still processing that this is happening to me, but does anyone have any advice on where I should go from here? Thank you so much!