My yearly eye check up showed up suprise...stigmatism. Year ago none. So now I've got new glasses to correct the 'situation'..not that I have any trouble seing with old ones ::) Anyway..My eyes are not having none of it..I'm feeling 'sick', out of balance, view through is sharp but if I move my head I feel like drunk..eyes see the distance but brain says differently. As these new glasses were for driving and only for those 'blurry' days (I've got diabetes) driving is out of question now if I'm to use the new 'driving' glasses ::) >:( I tried and managed to bumb twice into curb :-X
Optitian says I should wear them non stop a week.."giving a chance to eyes to adjust"..yeah alright ::)..it is not him wearing them.
Is this normal practise..?..Surely glasses should feel 'normal' almost straight away? Does stigmatism need correcting if I'm generally able to see well enough..and I'm still under 'legal' limit for driving without anyway.
Astigmatism can cause problems... mine was picked up between me booking my test and having it! When I first put them on the ground was in the wrong place... and I had to lean backwards to walk... :-X
If you can wear them all the time for a week that should help...
I have to wear mine all the time... from waking up to going to sleep and cannot drive without them... I can't even find them when I wake up... so have them in the same place... that was fun when the boys were little!! ::)
I can sympathise, goodlife, having had an astigmatism picked when I was in my late thirties. Stick with the new specs, I'm sure your brain will soon adjust. If it were me, I'd be nervous about driving, in the meantime - I don't suppose you can avoid doing so?
Not sure which emoticon to go for here - :o .....or how about ::) .....and hope it's soon a case of 8)
:)
Well..not to drive is not an option..even..b...y typing seem to be hard and I'm not even using my eyes for it ::) Does correction numbthe brain too :-X ::)
Today I've been out and about..so glasses been on while walking and off while driving...ready to pull my hair out >:(
Well if I'm not able to cope they are going do chance the lenses into 'compromised' presciption lenses.
It's just maddening...they don't tell you what to expect..now that I've heard that you have had similar experiences ..I feel better..it is not just me and my 'weird' eyeballs ::)
Quote from: goodlife on February 23, 2011, 15:13:01
My yearly eye check up showed up suprise...stigmatism. Year ago none. So now I've got new glasses to correct the 'situation'..not that I have any trouble seing with old ones ::) Anyway..My eyes are not having none of it..I'm feeling 'sick', out of balance, view through is sharp but if I move my head I feel like drunk..eyes see the distance but brain says differently. As these new glasses were for driving and only for those 'blurry' days (I've got diabetes) driving is out of question now if I'm to use the new 'driving' glasses ::) >:( I tried and managed to bumb twice into curb :-X
Optitian says I should wear them non stop a week.."giving a chance to eyes to adjust"..yeah alright ::)..it is not him wearing them.
Is this normal practise..?..Surely glasses should feel 'normal' almost straight away? Does stigmatism need correcting if I'm generally able to see well enough..and I'm still under 'legal' limit for driving without anyway.
Yes, astigmatism here too, teamed with fairly bad myopia. And the prescription varies everytime I go to the optician. I vividly remember one occasion as a child when I reported to my perplexed parents that all roads are now going uphill. Within less than a day I was used to it. When I get new glasses now, I always drive home with my old ones and make sure I am fully used to the new ones before driving again. I don't get used to them straightaway either.
On the other hand, mistakes can and do happen. You are having a particularly difficult time with it. Perhaps it is better to go back and have them check that your lenses were made to the correct prescription. And if they are, get them to check that the prescription was right in the first place. It is not like doing a full sight test again and the optician should not object to checking your prescription.
Thanks Galina..been and done that..already 4 times! ::)..been checked..re-checked..checked again..
I've got now that alternative prescription waiting should I need it after a week ::)..it is going to be long one..
Goodlife, what is Stigmatism? i am diabetic & my eyes are all over the place .
Eye test Saturday & hospital next month hoping to get them sorted out.
Relax..Rosebud..nothing to do with diabetes...
Apparantely for some reason...some peoples 'bits' inside the eye changes shape..that 'bit' should be round but it changes to sort of 'rugbyball' shape.
What do you need to get 'sorted' with your eyes?
Poor thing..eyes all over the place.. ;D on who's places..I hope it is worth it ;)
OH good, this post may help me.
Years ago I was diagnosed with astigmatism, but didn't get glasses which I never worn apart from magnifiers for small sewing.
Just before I left the UK I had an eye test which said i now needed specs..no mention of the stig.I picked the glasses up in a hurry and had not got time to wait to get them checked. we flew out the next day
I have tried countless times to wear them and presumed there was an error in the prescription,
If I put them on and stay very still all seems well, but if I turn my head even slightly the side views seem to float upwards to the sky, and if I rock my head side to side, it is like being on a swing.. impossible to wear them.
Could this be the same thing and should o try again, it is really horrible.
Thank you
XX Jeannine
Were they multi-focal specs Jeannine?
Jeannine..that's how I am..while still they are sort of fine. But I'm suppose to wear mine for driving ::) Optician tried make me wear the glasses full time for a week..I lasted couple of days at the time..
I went back to optician couple of day ago..and now I'm having my lenses chanced again..they said that 'sometimes some peoples eyes just cannot take the correction'..and mine don't..you should see my bruises on my legs when I've been walking against funiture ::)
there is more than one type - usually the cornea or lens is misshapen and fine vision cannot be obtained or can be caused by scarring so it is important you know how your eyes have got to this point, talk to the optician, maybe contact lenses might be a better choice - they don't always get it right first time and you are the boss of your own eyes so always keep asking ;)
They are what I call graduated. reading at the bottom and distance at the top but they change slowly..not like the old bifocals. Totally impoasible to wear, the distortion is very pronounced as I turn my head.
Funnily enough, I put Johns on, same type..graduated, wrong prescription of course but when I turned my head nothing went crazy as with mine.
XX Jeannine