My eye doctor said I don't need glasses, then why...?!
Question: why am I having trouble reading with my bifocals and regular vision?
I told him everything is blurry, and he said I am making it up, because I can see fine. The lines on the test he did, were blurry too. I told him and he said, not blurry enough to warrant new glasses. What's wrong with this picture?
Answers: why am I having trouble reading with my bifocals and regular vision?
I told him everything is blurry, and he said I am making it up, because I can see fine. The lines on the test he did, were blurry too. I told him and he said, not blurry enough to warrant new glasses. What's wrong with this picture?
It sounds like you a farsighted. People that are hyperopic have 'weak' eyes. This means the lens system which includes the cornea and the lens inside the eye, together don't focus or bend the light enough so that when the light rays meet at the focal point back there somewhere, doesn't focus the light ON the retina. The light rays would 'appear' to keep on going behind the eye till they to become focused. But on the retina is a blur circle. The image is blurred.
But you can sort of 'work' or accomodate to fix that. You bend your lens, things get into focus. And that's for things far away! But to see things up closer, you have to add more power to that lens bending inside your eyes.
So now you are working to see far away, then on top of that have to bend the lens some more to see up close...and that adds up to a lot of work or energy to see.
Ths suggestion to see a different eye doc is a good idea.
You might go to the pharmacy and put on a pair of 'readers'. Try the +1.00 or the +2.00 and look far away. If things seem better focused, you are hyperopic.
It may take more than that to be focused when your eyes are 'relaxed'. See a different optometrist, or an ophthalmologist who does general ophthalmology.
At the late teen years, when we start doing a little more reading for school, the aches set in because you're doing more eye work. You'll be a lot more comfortable with bifocals or trifocals. You can get the progressive lenses and that's all cool, but your reading area will be narrow and you'll have to move your head back and forth to read.
You'll find that 35mm bifocals or trifocals (which work a LOT better that bifocals if you are on a computer for any length of time) are just handy. People like lawyers use Executive bifocals or trifocals where the line goes all the way across the whole lens. Makes it so they can read with just their eyes and not have to move their head back and forth to read.
I would go see a new optometrist. Obviously there needs to be further testing. Did he do a Glaucoma test on you? Good luck!!
Could you read the lines though? If so, your eyes are not that bad trust me!
If he actually said 'you're making it up' though, that sounds a bit crap, does he have no bedside manner? Call him back and ask him to explain why exactly you don't need glasses. I mean, do you actually have trouble seeing anything, like reading road signs as you drive, or trouble reading?
Or, get a second opinion from another optician.
Chalice
get a new doctor..he cant see what you see so he's an asshole (sry) ..get a new doctor..!
If you can read the letters in the test he can tell how bad or good your vision is.
But if you say it's blurry maybe you can see it but you have double vision or something.
Good luck and I hope you find new glasses that work.
just get a second opinion. if you are still concerned!!! you currently wear them so there has been a need before. maybe your rx didnt change enough for him to change your rx. it can stay the same. just go to a different doc
i would go another dr and see what they have to say
that is out of order saying u are making it up.
In my opinion he has either got your prescription wrong, in which case he should test you again for free.
Or it could be that the glasses arent sitting on you right. The thing with bifocals is if they have not been fitted properly, you may be looking through the wrong part of the lense, (your meant to look through the centre). a slight adjustment should change this and any respectable optictians will do this free aswell.
At the moment your item is faulty, and you have every right to a correct pair of glasses. Keep going back if they dont change it. Dont give in.
If this fails, change ur opticians or eye doctor, they cant be very good if they dont help you.
good luck...
ok. go do this what you think.
I would go to a different eye doctor