LONG SIGHT my eyes get worse with glasses?!

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What you are experiencing is called "latent hyperopia". It sounds like your are uncovering your farsightedness and suffering from presbyopia at the same time causing frequent prescription changes.

A little background:
The eye accommodates, or increases its "plus" power to focus on close objects. For many farsighted persons (hyperopes), the eye can accommodate to see distance clearly although it should normally be relaxed. So, while a normal eye would be relaxed, a farsighted but young eye can still see clearly by "pretending" like it's reading.

As we age, the eye loses its ability to accommodate as much, and eventually the hyperope needs glasses to make up the difference. This is the same reason everybody pretty much eventually needs reading glasses. When the eye loses so much accommodation that it requires reading glasses for "normal" near distances, it's called presbyopia.

Also, when farsighted persons get glasses, they are usually underprescribed at first as they are suffering from "accomodative spasm". This is a case that, because the eyes have been straining to focus all the time and never relaxing, they actually don't relax fully until the passage of time. If the doctor prescribed the full prescription, distance vision would be blurry until the eye relaxed. In effect, the eyes "weaned off" having to strain.

Your distance prescription is increasing because your eyes are reaching their relaxed state (which should be more comfortable and have other benefits such as not feeling your eyes turn in). Your reading prescription is increasing because of the presbyopia.

Your eyes aren't getting worse with glasses... they've actually been "out of focus" for quite some time. They are getting worse with age, though.

If you are wearing +7.75, you should not be taking them off except to sleep.