# Questions for glasses people. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 6, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-glasses-people/687829 "2014-05-06T19:34:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-glasses-people/687829/21 "2014-05-10T03:48:53Z")
I understand the problem is common, but I’ve had progressives for years and have never had even a minutes worth of problem with new ones - except noting how much clearer the paper is. Back 40 years ago I noted that my girlfriends who had contacts took an inordinate time cleaning them, so I was never interested. Anyhow I’ve been wearing glasses since second grade, so not having them would be weird. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-glasses-people/687829/22 "2014-05-11T00:58:44Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > People who wear glasses, or are opticians, thoughts requested. > > I’ve worn contacts about every day for 25 years. About 8 years ago I finally got some glasses. I only wear them for 30 minutes of TV before bed, I try to wear them at least if I am lazing at home on weekends for as long as I can. > Last week I scratched my cornea somehow, so I tried wearing my glasses all day over last weekend to give it a chance to rest. Unfortunately my glasses were in sad shape. The prescription was still dead perfect, but they are scratched, don’t darken, and the frames are tied with thread where the screw hole stripped out a while ago. > > So I decided to get new glasses, which I just picked up, and took out my contacts to drive home like the man said. And they are horrible. I remember my first set 8 years ago I hated as well, taking a while to get used to them(both sets are progressive), but this seems worse. I got a bit nauseated in the car. The basic world is clear, but at first I thought the world was in the wrong aspect ratio, like someone squashed 4x3 into a 16x9 format. But then I realized that wasn’t really the problem, objects in the top 3/4 of my field of vision are the right H/W ratio. The problem is that the ground is too tall. My eyes and my sense of Proprioception combine to tell me the ground I am walking on is a plane that intercepts my lower calf, and the asphalt is only about an inch under my ass in the car. It’s very disconcerting. > > Is that a common thing with switching to new glasses? Will I get used to it, or should I go back for a do over? Is it something to do with the progressive… progression? Will saying the ground is too high mean anything to them, or will he think I am crazy and full of shit? This sounds exactly like my experience. I tried to get used to them, but I just couldn’t. I even mashed the side of my truck into the edge of my garage door opening because my depth perception was so messed up (I took the wheel ONLY to park, after a driving lesson for my teen :smack:). I went to a different doctor and he checked the glasses and apparently the lenses were ground incorrectly. What a relief, I thought, expecting that would solve it. The new ones were better, but still I felt nauseous and there was a yellow stripe down one side of everything and a blue one down the other. They remade them with thicker lenses and it was a bit better, but I really never did get used to them. The lenses not being made right is apparently common though, so it wouldn’t hurt to get them checked. Good luck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-for-glasses-people/687829.md?page=1)