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Nose pads hurting/glasses slipping

  • 22-08-2014 11:40am
    #1
    SillyBeans
    Registered Users Posts: 440 ✭✭


    Hi everyone,

    hoping someone can give me some advice with this. I've worn glasses since I was a child but this problem seems to be getting worse with each pair of glasses I've owned.

    Any glasses I have slide down my nose constantly. I'm always having to push them back up every few minutes. So much so that when I'm wearing contacts, I've been known to poke myself in the eye, forgetting I don't have my glasses on!

    I've been back to the opticians 3-4 times since I got my current pairs and they've changed the nose pads. They've tried harder ones, softer ones, oblong ones and now round ones. The round ones are the best but they're still leaving huge red marks on my nose and haven't sorted the sliding issue.

    I have very long eyelashes and a very narrow nose and the opticians have always had problems getting the glasses to sit in the correct place without my eyelashes blinding me.

    I have two pairs of glasses at the moment, one very thin pair and one slightly thicker framed. Neither are very heavy. My prescription is -6.5 and -7 but I've had the lenses thinned out. I find that if I'm looking at anything far away I've to hold the glasses up higher than where they sit, for me to see properly. It's like it's not hitting my eye in the correct place? (I know nothing about prescriptions...).

    Any advice?

    Thanks in advance!


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  • #2
    Mongarra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Mongarra


    Like you I've worn glasses for many years and had the nose pad problem. The latest pair has the old-fashioned "loose" swivelling type and they work well for me. I have never had a nose job but maybe that's a solution.

    As regards having to hold the glasses at a different angle for distance vision, have you tried vari-focals. I have had them for a good while - on my second pair at the moment - and, while they took a little while to get used to, they work fine now.


  • #3
    SillyBeans
    Registered Users Posts: 440 ✭✭SillyBeans


    They're only easier to see in the distance if I move them because that put my eye in the centre of the lens, if that makes sense? If they fit my face properly, I wouldn't have to move them.


  • #4
    RiseToMe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭RiseToMe


    SillyBeans wrote: »
    They're only easier to see in the distance if I move them because that put my eye in the centre of the lens, if that makes sense? If they fit my face properly, I wouldn't have to move them.

    You had thinner lenses made, the person who sold you the glasses should have take a vertical measurement to ensure the lenses were centered properly when worn. It seems that they may not have done this. Return to the store.


  • #5
    SillyBeans
    Registered Users Posts: 440 ✭✭SillyBeans


    Thanks for the advice :)


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