u/PreferencePleasant53

So I’ve had my appointment with orthoptics on Friday and I’ve gone from a total of 3 prisms to 27 prisms and I’ve had a fresnel lens added to my left lens as this is my worse/drifting eye. The optician (?) seemed to be pretty uninterested and uninformed. I have some questions…

Does a fresnel prism fix the squint or just fix my vision? They seemed to think it will help but I’m not convinced. If i try and put another pair of glasses on without the lens, my double vision is considerably worse.

I was offered one stick on lens but what happens when I need to wear my prescription sunglasses? Or contact lenses?

How often is long enough to wear them? They look so ridiculous, that I’m never going to be able to wear these to work or when going out? My vision is impaired by the lens as it’s blurry/lined and gets dirty, is hard to clean.

aesthetically, the lens they have cut is all jagged and doesn’t fit my glasses lens properly, it looks awful. You can see the uneven edges of it.

I’m feeling pretty down about it all. I explained all of the issues I’ve been experiencing but it seemed they were only interested in fitting the lens and getting me out the door. UK NHS btw if that makes a difference!

I’m (40f) wondering if anyone can help, or indeed if this is the correct place? Recently been and had my standard eye test and my right eye has increased its diopters (sp?) from 1 to 12. My actual vision has worsened by about -0.5 but that’s normal for me. Left eye is fine and my eye health itself is fine.

I’ve been having issues with quite severe double vision for about the last 6 months, along with a motion sickness if I close my “good” eye. This has been causing me issues with driving, walking down stairs and also with confidence at work as I often have to present to a senior level and now struggling with eye contact.

I know this is not quite as severe as others on here, but wanted to know if anyone had such a huge change in their prescription? The optician has referred me to orthoptics and the ophthalmology.