OT-Wearing Glasses

[Tom Buchanan]

Just had an eye exam,and got my glasses.The walmart readers weren't getting the job done anymore.Really having a time getting used to wearing them,faraway things seem kinda blurry.Anyone else experience these problems?thanks for replies.

[scott96088]

Just had an eye exam,and got my glasses.The walmart readers weren't getting the job done anymore.Really having a time getting used to wearing them,faraway things seem kinda blurry.Anyone else experience these problems?thanks for replies.

I have worn tri focals for 10 years and faraway should never be blurry...
Close up gets hard to see when you need new ones.

If your having trouble take the glasses to your doc and let him check them out!!

Scott

[Lew Hartswick]

Well since I've been wearing glasses for 68 years I can't be of much help. :-)
Without mine anything beyond about 10 inches is "blurry" .
...lew...

[Mac1]

It has always been my experience that if the glasses are right, they woek the minute you put them on. If they are out of focus or its hard to find things (bifocals), they are not right.

[Mcgyver]

agree with others, there should be no unpleasantness and only a little getting used to. I got a new pair once, and tried to tough it out through the weekend figure it was just me. finally went to a different optometrist who wrote a completely different script (that worked). I don't' know how often that happens, but it does

[jimmstruk]

My experience (30 years) of wearing glasses is also that you put them on and immediately see better. If brand new glasses are blurry or cause headaches and tears you got ripped off and need another eye Dr. I have been there, Hate to throw away new glasses but have to see well. JIM

[Tim Clarke]

Oh, do I ever feel your pain......... Had mine a little over 3 years now. I got bi-focals, and it didn't take too long to adjust to them. This was after about 40 years of having outstanding vision, about another 5 with my arms being too short to read anything and another 5 of using the cheap cheaters. I can still see as good or better at 300 yards without them. I believe in my case it's due to loss of light transmission thru the photo reactive tint and anti scratch coating.

After a couple weeks I got used to looking thru the right part of the lenses to have the object in focus. Oddly enough, the toughest thing to get used to was looking out the mirrors of my truck. I'd glance over and down into the mirror without moving my head. Out of the sweet spot in the center of the lenses, and down thru the bi-focal part. Couldn't see squat.

As far as the glasses themselves go, Take them back to the optical place where you got them, ask to recheck the grind, and double check the pupilarry distance, that's c to c on your eyeballs, and on the glasses also. Friends have had errors in the P.D. and it gave them fits until someone figured it out.

TC

[Tin Falcon]

Tom:

The walmart readers weren't getting the job done anymore.

Did you get presription reading glasses? If the presciption was for close work only that could be the problem. I have worn glasses for about forty years now. I have only had a problem with one pair. They were military issue. For those of you that do not know military glasses are made in a federal pennatentury IIRC in Georgia. I swear they switched the lenses left to right. Everything was blurry with those. It takes a little to get used to a new prescription but not usuly more than an hour or two for regular glasses. IIRC it took a couple of days to get used to the bi focals.
Tin

[Your Old Dog]

I have worn glasses for 50 years and now my eyes are getting better and I'm wearing them much less?

I have two pair, one conventional for driving and bifocals for normal reading.

I have a second pair with the prime lens set to the end of my clenched fist with extended arms. This pair also has a regular bifocal for reading. This pair is slimmer than most and I wear them low on my nose so I can look over top of the frame at distant things. I paid good money to get stainless steel and I did, but not the stems? ! they rust.

If you're new to glasses be real careful that nothing but you shirt pocket comes in contact with them. I carry a 3x5 card in my pocket for notes. The glasses go in front of the card with plastic lens facing the shirt material and anything else going in that pocket goes behind the 3x5 card. It works to perfection. My glasses spend a lot of time in my pockets these days and absolutely no scratches to the lens. (actually the 3x5 is really a 5x7 made into a tri-fold for notes. I can get about a week on one card and then transfer un-done projects and still need info to the next card)

[JS]

Been wearing the same prescription for about 15 years now .

They never seem to change , last time my glasses broke I took the prescription into one of those hour or less places and had new ones made .

I do know that the wrong prescription will give me headaches .