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I'm 43 and am having similar issues. I talked to my eye doctor about it and it is simply a function of getting old. He said that the lens of the eye gets stiffer as we age and it becomes harder for the muscles of the eye to "bend" it enough to see things very closely (especially with contacts in to correct the nearsightedness). I may be off in my explanaion somewhat, but I think that is what is going on.

One thing that can be done (with contacts, anyway) is to wear one contact that corrects the nearsightedness and another that allows you to see things up close. The brain figures this out pretty quickly and it seems to work. I tried it, though, and my brain never "made the switch". I couldn't see anything. My computer screen was just fuzzy enough that it made it hard to get any work done, so I went back to my regular contact prescritpion. Now I am having a harder time reading fine print, etc.