TL;DR I recently brought a pair of frames to my optician in order to have new prescription lenses put in. Now light sources are doubled and ‘floating’ far across my field of vision - not sure what to do here.
Recently, I’ve had a really frustrating experience trying to get new prescription lenses and am hoping for some advice. I already had frames, and brought them in to a higher end optical place have new lenses put in. I had an appointment with the office prior to this to confirm my prescription.
I have a pretty light prescription (-2.25, single vision), no astigmatism. I specifically asked for no blue light (I need color accuracy for my job), and wanted advice / defaulted to their recommendations about reflective coatings. They recommended an AR coating. I get the glasses back - they had blue light lenses, and I notice I get bright purple reflections of my eyes back at the edge of the glass and also floating purple dots across my field of vision. I had to switch back to my old frames within an hour of wearing them because the floaters and reflections gave me a headache. I return the glasses to the optical office, explain the issues and they say they can redo them but it voids the warranty. The gal I’m chatting with brings out her manager and they say no AR coating, just anti-scratch will fix it.
The glasses came back again today, I went in for the fitting and every light source produced a very intense double reflection. Most of the other posts I’ve seen about this have the second reflection right next to the OG light source, and it seems smaller. This wasn’t the case for me - the reflections seemed to be floating much farther across my field of vision. I’ve never experienced this with glasses in my almost 15 years of wearing them. They wouldn’t be wearable at all.
I asked if they needed to be remeasured, but the tech said it was a coating issue and no remeasuring was necessary. After reading more about it, I’m sure part of it is a coating issue, but I haven’t seen anyone else post about reflections being so far across their field of vision.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of thing? After getting back glasses with major issues twice, I feel hesitant to just trust it’ll work out this next time. I don’t want to push for a remeasurement if it actually doesn’t matter, though.