Strange problem with new eye glasses?!
Question: I got an eye exam at LensCrafters last week, and was told my vision changed for the worse, so I got a new pair of glasses there. Got the glasses today, and they feel a little bit weird.
Note: I've gotten many pairs of glasses in my life, and I know it always takes a few days to get used to new prescription. Just never had this problem before. I had brought this problem up at the store, but they told me the prescription is 100% correct. Also, one of my eyes is much worse than the other: left lens is -5.50, right is -1.50.
The right lens on these new glasses are fine. But the left one is very strange - I can see perfectly if I look straight ahead, but if I look just a little bit to the sides or up and down, vision gets blurry.
Could it be that they gave me a lens with the wrong astigmatism prescription? The doctor there told me that I have "a little bit of astigmatism, but it's negligible". Left eye's axis is 180, right eye is 005.
Answers: I got an eye exam at LensCrafters last week, and was told my vision changed for the worse, so I got a new pair of glasses there. Got the glasses today, and they feel a little bit weird.
Note: I've gotten many pairs of glasses in my life, and I know it always takes a few days to get used to new prescription. Just never had this problem before. I had brought this problem up at the store, but they told me the prescription is 100% correct. Also, one of my eyes is much worse than the other: left lens is -5.50, right is -1.50.
The right lens on these new glasses are fine. But the left one is very strange - I can see perfectly if I look straight ahead, but if I look just a little bit to the sides or up and down, vision gets blurry.
Could it be that they gave me a lens with the wrong astigmatism prescription? The doctor there told me that I have "a little bit of astigmatism, but it's negligible". Left eye's axis is 180, right eye is 005.
It almost sounds as if there is a distortion on that lens. They only reason I am questioning where or not the astigmatism is incorrect is b/c you said if you look straight ahead it's clear. Lenses can warp when they are being cut. Honestly though refractions are subjective and doctors can tend to over-correct patients, especially myopic patient (near-sighted) like yourself. If I were in your shoes I would go to another optometrist, get a second opinion on your prescription and if it matches the first prescription (or even if it doesn't) Go back to LensCrafters and say these words : These glasses are a Non-adapt.
It means for whatever reason, you cannot adapt to this new prescription. They will either remake them or change the prescription again to something you can function with.
with my glasses if i look straight ahead evrything is clear but if i roll my eyes and look to the side the words are a bit blurry for me. it the curvature of the lens
Are your new lenses large? I have astigmatism and got a pair of glasses with large lenses, when I would look to the side it would be as you described. I was told by an opthamologist that persons that have really bad astigmatism need small lenses because during grinding process the larger the lens the less clarity it has. I bought a new pair, same prescription, only smaller lenses and they were perfect. Hope this helps.
If he said that the astigamtism is negligible then there probably isn't any in your Rx that you wear. Axis 180 is virtually the same thing as axis 005 in low amounts of astigmastism (only 5 degree difference). I would just try it for few days and if it doesn't get better call them and im sure they would recheck your eyes and your Rx.
you might want to check with ur eye doctor one more time. o and my left eye is much worse than my right eye as well so theres nothng wrong with that