Problem with new glasses.

swingaloo

Ive just had my eyes tested and got a new pair of distance glasses and also a pair of reading glasses.


Its 4 years since I last had new glasses and I had noticed that one of my eyes seemed to have deteriorate quite badly. Ive always had glasses for distance but never needed reading glasses until the last year or so. I have been using those cheap reading glasses that you can buy in all the 'Pound' type shops.

So I had the eye test and ordered 2 pairs of glasses which I collected just over 3 weeks ago. Even whilst still in the shop I commented that with the distance ones I could see better in my original pair.

I was told to take a few days to get used to the new glasses as my prescription was quite a bit different to my old one so I may need time to adjust. Strangely I was also told that the prescription in my left eye had changed a lot but it was my right eye which I had noticed the difference with. If I closed my left eye then my vision in my right was very blurred but they say the test showed very little difference in my right eye which does not really make sense.

Anyway, after using them for a week I went back and had my eyes tested again. The lenses for the distance glasses were reordered and I now have the new ones but I still feel I can see better with my old original glasses. If I turn my head from side to side I get a really strange feeling, almost a dizziness. Ive been trying to persist with them but Im finding that after wearing them for 5 or 6 hours Im getting headaches.

Plus, the reading glasses they have given me are worse than the cheap £1 ones. I have to adjust a book to exactly the right distance for them to be right and using my laptop I have to move my head backwards and forwards to get the clarity. With the cheap ones everything was just magnified.

I feel like Ive spent a lot of money to be worse of than I was before I had the test. The reading ones are no better than the cheap ones and the distance ones (which are now the second pair they have done for me) are not as good as the old glasses I had before the test.


Any advice as to what I can ask them to do? They seem to be going down the 'You will get used to them ' route but Ive had 2 pairs now and persisted with them both for over a week and Im really not happy.

sheramber

You can only go back and insist that the glasses do not work for you.

My husband got a new pair of distance glasses but he saw two objects such as lamp posts and trees etc.

The manageress investigated this and discovered a known reason for this which applied to some people.

I do not know what is was called or what they did but they were able to supply a pair that worked.

The fact that we have used this optician regularly for many years may have helped them to investigate further.

Murphybear

I am interested to read this as I am having the same problems. I have been wearing specs for over 50 years and this is the first time I have had a problem. I got my eye sight tested at a local independent but went to Asda for the specs as I couldn’t afford the local opticians prices. I got prescription sunglasses from the same Asda and they were very good.

If I have any luck in getting it sorted I’ll come back to you.

suejb2

I had this situation.
Went for a run of the mill eye test, got my new glasses. As soon as I put them on the vision didn’t feel right. The optician and I agreed to let them “break in” but within days I knew they weren’t going to improve.
Long story short I was referred to an outpatient eye clinic and was diagnosed with an eye condition that cannot be rectified with glasses. I now wear contacts.
Go back to the optician