Before last night, I could see just fine. Now, I can’t see with my new glasses, and I can’t see without them. Marcia Marcia Marcia! Without them, everything is blurry. With them, everything is blurry and looks like it’s in a fish bowl. I have to tilt my head way back to see my computer monitor, and I have to bend way over to negotiate stairs.
You’d understand if you had two blonde sisters at home.
Okay, I had this problem and it’s not you…it’s them. I went to Lenscrafters and got the bad pair that they couldn’t seem to fix. I ended up losing them. Then this last time I went to Pearl Vision and they got them right the first time.
Go back and keep going back til they get it right.
If your glasses have the wrong prescription or are otherwise wrong for you in a practical/medical sense (as opposed to a fashion sense), they should be willing to correct the prescription or work with you to find a better solution to your vision woes without charging you.
If they got the prescription wrong, or don’t have the lenses mounted properly (which happened to me once - one lens was twisted slightly, which threw off the focus) then they should fix them free of charge. I just got new glasses, and they told me I had a sixty day warranty.
Is this your first pair of glasses? Even when the lenses are right and the prescription is right, sometimes it takes up to a week for your brain and eyes to adjust to looking through corrective lenses. I need a day or two to adjust when I get a new pair, and I’ve been four-eyed for 22 years. (ouch - that number hurt!)
No, they can’t be charging you for a product that doesn’t work. At least, not the cheap-ass places I go to. They guarantee to get it right. Except for the first place, that couldn’t seem to get it right. But they tried!
My glasses make me look even more dorky than usual. I have coke-bottle glasses so they usually tell me they need to use bigger frames. I call them my fearless fly glasses.
But lately I see better with my glasses than I do with my contacts, so I wear them more. These last few years I have been able to find a doctor who seems to be able to fit them better than in the past, so they aren’t too bad. (really, no more fearless fly glasses.)
I would think about getting the surgery, but:
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Except for the cheap drugstore reading glasses that I almost never wear, yes. This is a whole new world for me.
I’m wondering if this is the case. I should probably just live with it for a week or two to see if I can adjust. If my Lambrusco-sized headache doesn’t go away by then, maybe I should go back.
If your face is small generally, or narrow, or if your eyes are a little bit closer together, get the smallest lenses diameter-wise you can, and make sure the frames fit your face. I had an extremely strong prescription for nearsightedness, before I got my eyes lasered. Also I’ve got a small narrow face, especially for a male. We’re talking honest-to-God Coke-bottle lenses here. But the lenses on my last pair was so small as to be almost Lennon-esque, and it made all the difference. They were just as effective to me for correcting my vision, but they were far, far better looking to other people. Having the lenses smaller likewise made it easier to find frames to fit my narrow face. Overly large frames just look bad and awkward, like the kind of braces you have to wear with a strap running around the back of your head. Unfortunately I’m heard that big frames are coming back into style, so my advice is to act now.
I always have a terrible headache when I first get glasses and even though the frames aren’t actually crushing my skull with the power of a Hummer (the car, pervs) it sure feels like it at first.
I have had glasses since I was in 7th grade and it still happens some 20 years later.
It will get better, I promise. If it doesn’t you should definitely get a different pair for at least a partial comp. Maybe new lenses but a different frame for free for sure.
That’s exactly what I’d suggest. Give them a week - wear them as much as you can stand. Then if you’re still having headaches, go back to the place you got them. They may need to redo the lenses. If they give you a hard time about it, raise holy hell. Don’t mess around with your vision.
When going down stairs, don’t look at the stairs if you don’t have to. It will screw you up. I still have this problem (but I’m blind as a bat).
My mom had the surgery & needs reading glasses now. Yeah, she can buy them at CVS for $10 as opposed to $300+ for prescription lenses, but she has to carry them all the time anyway since she can’t work or read pricetags, etc without them.
I’m sticking with glasses and/or contacts for awhile. Yeah, most of the risks with it are minor, but I’m not paying several thousand dollars just to be able to wear a different pair of glasses.
No no no…go back and tell the optician that the glasses aren’t working for you, and you can’t see out of them. You didn’t pay them $300 for a piece of crap, you paid them $300 for vision improvement, which you patently have not received yet.
Go back and tell 'em to make it right this time.
I speak from experience - I’ve had this happen to me more than once. One time they made my prescription almost half of what it should’ve been, once another place did them too strong, and got the Astigmatism completely farked up, and then a third place put some sort of weird coating on them that made everything look like i was looking through bubble wrap.
It’s your money and your ocular health. They don’t know that you got a bum pair until you go tell them.
Not really a problem for me. There is a joke in my family that we all have gigantic heads. I think we inherited that from my grandmother. My sister looks like a popsicle.
Since getting my glasses, I see dead people. Well, ghosts. OK, ghost images of bright objects, that appear to be several inches away from the actual objects. And when I turn my head, my whole world distorts. I used to have to pay $4 a hit for that effect.
