Prescription Glasses - I think the wrong presciption what can i do?

divadee

I bought 3 pairs of glasses from tescos last week. I also had my eye test there as well.

When i had my eye test (which took about 10mins) the optician said my prescirption had changed and i would need new glasses, ok so order 2 pairs of rimless and 1 pair of sunglasses. totalling £250.

Went to pick up the glasses yesterday I was very happy. Got home and started wearing them and this is when the problems have started.

I have got major headaches from these glasses, even after 5-10mins of wear the pounding head and aching eyes start. I thought it would just take me a while to get used to them, but today I have been in agony and its just getting worse.

I have now gone back to my old glasses and the pain is slowly subsiding.

I think I have been given the wrong prescirption for my eyes, but what should i do? Would it be best for me to go to a different opticians and not tell them anything and just get an eye test and see what they say if they match obviously i will just have to get used to the new lenses, and if they are different then go back to tescos for a refund? Or should i be honest with the new opticians and see what they say to that?

On my old prescription my optician put down sph, cyl and axis. at the tescos optician he just put down the sph is this what is causing the problem?

poppyolivia

Same thing happened to me (tesco as well)..I took them back and asked why I had headaches and when I was trying to step on a kerb it felt like I was closer to it sort of thing..its hard to explain...my vision was WELL sharp and the prescription was actually the SAME as before...

They checked the lenses and they were perfect...I was used to just plastic frames with no nose gripper bits (you know what I mean?) and the pair I was having trouble with had the nose pads....She told me to try for another wk as the reason for all of the above was they were sitting on my nose differently...I thought I was getting fobbed off but honestly everything sorted itself out in the following day or 2....they were fine it was just the difference in distance to your eyeballs....

I'm not good at explaining eh but I know what I mean!!!lol

oh yeah and in the end I noticed a tiny chip in the lenses and they gave me a new pair anyway...couldn't give me the same ones as they were discontinued...got plastic ones to be on the safe side haha!

I would go in and ask them to re check them and take it from there!

good luck xx

edited to say in my experience headaches are SO normal with new glasses it was the falling off the kerb bit that worried me more than that!lol (I've worn glasses for about 16 years)