Is it me, or are my new glasses way off?!?

[#1 DOUG Live Fan]

I went to get my new glasses yesterday, and WOW are they different. I told the lady immediately that they seemed strong, but she said I just had to get used to them. They are correcting a 5 stage astigmatism in my right eye. I also have bifocals.

I absolutely could not wear them to drive home. I would've gotten in an accident.

I told dh when I got home that they were just so awful, and he told me to get used to them. I did my best, but they were just pulling at my eyes, and the bifocals are so different from my last ones. I put up with them for about 3 hours, but finally switched back to my other glasses. I was feeling woozy by then. I could tell my eyes had already tried to adjust because they had to readjust to the old ones.

I have to wonder about the bifocal, too. I compared the two, and the new ones are 1/4" higher than the old ones. That has to make a major difference. The majority of my new lenses are made up of bifocal. Can this be right? My old bifocals fell right at my lower lid. The new ones fall right at my iris.

The other question is, do I need the bifocal at all? After complaining so much, dh recalled that when they were ordering my lenses they asked "Do you want a bifocal?" I didn't think anything of it. I thought I was SUPPOSED to have the bifocal. If I have the choice, I think I'm going to opt out of the bifocal.

I am going back today to talk to them about changing the lenses because I just can't stand it. They need to at least lower the position of the bifocal.

Do you think I am being a big baby, or do you think the glasses are wrong?

Aaaagghh! I'm so aggravated!

Liz

 

[JoNo]

I feel your pain. I have a horrible case of stigmatism and i'm practically blind w/o my glasses. I remember when I was 14-15 I would always break my glasses b/c I played in-line hockey. When I go 2-3 days w/o glasses and I get a new pair, it can even be the same lenses, I get a bad headache but I have to keep them on. After a few days I get re-adjusted and it's all gravy!

 

[Cruisin]

Hi Liz, I understand what you are going through. Mine aren't quite that bad but I can't seem to see anything properly

If I don't look at something straight on it is blurry. To do work at a desk it is blurry, to look far away it is blurry. All around annoying.

I think that I too would opt for not having the bifocals, I have to take the darn glasses off anyway to be able to see something close up, so why bother with the bifocals.

I have had them checked and am always told they are fine. I will have had these lenses 2 years and it doesn't seem to get any better.

Good luck

 

[Oh Kay!]

You should take it back. I have a slight astigatism as well. It takes me awhile to get adjusted to a new glasses and I always dread getting a new pair. With the last pair, I had to take it back three times before it felt comfortable. Ask them to check the index is not off; with me, that always seems to be the problem. I've changed optician since, and the new guy got it the first time.

It's one thing to get used to a new pair, but if you can't drive and feel wozzy, there's something wrong with the glasses.

Kay

 

[mickeyfan1]

Go back and have them checked, and tell the doctor who examined you. I have bad astimatism, I got a new perscription and had 2 sets of glasses made. One was fine, one wasn't. THe girl tried to tell me they were both correct, but I insisted they were not. She finally put them into the machine that lets them read the powers, prisms, etc. and sure enough, they were wrong. The doctor could have made an error when writing the perscription, the person doing the ordering could have transposed something. The only glasses I have ever had to get used to were my no line bifocals, and even then I got the hang of them in a few hours.

And if I happen to put on my sisters glasses (also astigmatic and bifocals) I can feel my eye being pulled, her prisms are quite different from mine.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Take them back, I have had to do that as well (could NOT see to drive at night). Once they just made a mistake (measured my eyes wrong) & my dh who also has a horrible time has had to have them adjusted as well. He has a tough prescription to fill.

 

[#1 DOUG Live Fan]

Thanks so much for the encouragement. It's just so difficult to be in this situation because how can someone else know what it is that you are seeing?

By the way, I work with my dad at church, and when he came in I put the glasses on and showed him. (He wears progressive lenses.) He said that the bifocal is definitely too high and to take them back.

See you later (I hope anyways),

Liz

 

[#1 DOUG Live Fan]

Back from the eye doctor......

I told the lady (same one who fitted me with the glasses yesterday and told me I would just need to get used to them ) that I was really struggling with the glasses. I told her they made me feel a little nauseous after wearing them for about 3 hours. So she said "let's take a look". I put them on and told her they felt like they were all bifocal. She told me I had to remember my frames are smaller than my other ones. I told her there is a difference as to where the bifocal line falls on both pairs of glasses. So she looked at me wearing each pair and determined that "YES" the bifocal was too high. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! That's what I've been trying to tell her! She's going to order new glasses for me now and have them lower it by 2 mm. The bifocal was right in my line of vision.

So I won't have my glasses for about another 2 weeks, but I'll wait if they are right this time.

Liz

 

[NC Belle]

Where did you get your glasses? Two weeks is too long for a customer to wait, specially after it was the retail person's mistake. If its Lenscrafters or similiar---have them call early Monday morning to have it done overnight at their cost or within the same week if it has to go to be specially coated with anti-reflective. I would ask the optician to fit you---they are licensed and do a better job. I have a favorite or 2 opticians that I trust for measurements. I am sensitive to being a fraction of a diopter of in my lenses.

 

[cassie]

I had gotten a pair of bifocals that weren't quite right. I was also told I would have to adjust to them. That's a crock of poop! You should never have to "adjust" if the doctor filled out the right prescription, and the lab was right on with that and the demensions. When I went back, the doctor checked the lenses with his prescription, and they matched. He asked me of any sudden illnesses or such. Nope! Nothing had changed. He then proceeded to do some more in depth tests, and "changed" the original prescription. The new pair were excellent from the first time I put them on. I seem to think he made the mistake in the first place, and not the lab. Otherwise, he'd be ranting over their mistake. I changed options after that, and my next new pair were perfect the first time.