New glasses, worse sight

Tony EH

Hi all,

First or all, let me apologise if this topic hasn't been doen to death already and everyone completely sick of it.

Anyhow, last week, I got an eyetest. The first in decades. My sight has always been ok for me, but recently I have felt that focusing on small text when reading was becoming difficult. Basically, after a while the text started to "jump" and become out of focus. I also have an addiction to making 1/72 scale aircraft and amour and the details of the smallest objects was becoming harder and harder to make out.

My left eye has always been the stronger of the two and has always done the bulk of the work. My right eye has always been somewhat fuzzy. Combined, they've been fine, but 40 is coming down the track and age is taking its inevitable toll on the old Mark 1 eyeballs, resulting in tiredness and a lack of ability to focus on small items close up. Distance is still fine. I am longsighted.

Recently, my brother in law gave me a pair of over the counter readers he had. They were +1's (or 2's I'm not sure) and I noticed an immediate improvement when reading. It was a much more comfortable experience. So, I have been using them on the occasions when I needed them, which was fairly limited to very small text and my nerdy hobby.

Biting the bullet, I went into Specsavers and got my eyes tested. My perscription came out as R +3.75 and L +2.00, with a very slight astigmatism. When I tried on the glasses, I noticed that my sight had become significantly worse and was very surprised. The left lens was helpful, but the right lens was completely blurry and together my vision was just awful.

I mentioned this to the (very) young lad at the counter, who went into the back to check. I don't know what he checked exactly, but he basically came back to me and said that I should "...wear them for a while until I get used to them". I went away thinking that I should have been able to see a marked improvement straight away, but I certainly did not. In fact, my sight was better without the glasses!

So, I've been wearing them and trying to "get used" to them, but I cannpt do it any more. I cannot read with them and working on the PC gives me a headache. Also, I can feel my right eye pulling, if that makes sense. It's a very uncomfortable sensation. With the store bought glasses, it seems much better. Reading is much easier and I don't have that pulling sensation from the right eye.

So...should I give it more time? Or am I correct in thinking that my right eye has been over/under perscribed? :cool:

Gmol

Same thing happened to me and I went back and they retested and replaced. Same company.

Daisies

It sounds like you have a lazy right eye and because you've never had the vision in that eye corrected before the brain has got used to ignoring the image from that eye. By putting a correction in front of that eye, the image is clearer than before (but still not 100%) and your brain is probably a bit confused. If after a week you cannot get used to them, go back for a retest.