Do I still need to get used to new glasses with the same prescription?!


Question: Do I still need to get used to new glasses with the same prescription?
So my eye doctor said my prescription is still the same (-1.25 myopia) but still wrote me a prescription note to get a new pair. Now I got a new pair of glasses, but it feels different than my old pair of glasses when I put them on. The prescription is the same, yet I feel some light eyestrain and close things are a tad blurry, although that only happens once in a while (which is why I think I need to adjust to these glasses, but it doesn't make sense to adjust to glasses with the same prescription. Should I take the glasses back?

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Compare your old and new prescriptions. Did anything else change? Is all there is the -1.25 sph?

See if you can check to see if the pupillary distance (PD) is the same on the two pairs of glasses. Whoever dispensed the glasses should be able to tell you this.

It's possible that the new lenses have a slightly different profile (base curve, for example.) This might cause some difference. They might also be made of a different material, though this is unlikely to make this kind of a difference.

Also, did you get new frames? Maybe they need to be adjusted.

It would be worth taking the glasses back to check all of the above.

One time my wife's glasses were made with the wrong axis. (Our optometrist shares an office with two opthalmologists, and so uses plus-cylinder notation instead of the usual minus-cylinder, and the optician transcribed it wrong.) Another time she got polycarbonate lenses, which sucked. Both times the optician replaced the lenses at no additional charge.



Maybe they are not as close to your eyeball as the old ones, or vice versa. Try moving them around on your face. If that doesn't work, then it is possible that either the new ones or the old ones were not in fact made to the precise prescription and you should get them both checked.




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