4.5 year old says new myopia glasses make his vision worse and now I am panicking
I took my 4.5 year old son for an eye test at Specsavers. The machine initially measured him at around -2.5. They then did the eye drops and repeated the machine test and it came back around -1.25.
The optometrist then tested him using shapes and pictures. My son could read some lines with the glasses on, but then he was also reading some of the same sized lines without the glasses, which seemed to really confuse the optometrist. He manually examined his eyes and said he definitely does seem short sighted, but he kept saying he was confused about why there was not much improvement with the glasses and why my son could still read the line without them.
He spent quite a while humming and haaing and eventually said we should go with the prescription anyway because otherwise his myopia could worsen. He recommended the myopia control lenses.
On the way home though, my son kept saying the glasses actually made it harder to see compared to without them. We ended up spending about $700 and now I am really worried because I did not feel the optometrist seemed confident in the prescription at all. I am now wishing we had gone to a paediatric optometrist or somewhere more specialised as soon as Specsavers first mentioned myopia rather than continuing there.
Has anyone had a similar experience with young kids? Would you get a second opinion before the glasses are made?