r/AskAnOptician

I had my eyes checked by an optometrist because the glare from other headlights from cars at night hurt my eyes. I struggle with bright light a lot and I experience pain behind/around my eyes every now and then. Although I was confident my vision was good since I see things very clearly. Here are my results:

Right Eye:

SPH: PL

CYL: -0.25

AXIS: 180

Left Eye:

+0.25

-0.25

AXIS: 165

I'm wondering if I was only given these numbers because my eyes are good enough and just for me to buy and pay for their glasses. Will wearing glasses even make a difference on my eyes? I had that darkening tint by sunlight and warm tint too so whenever I wear my glasses it makes it more comfortable to see things but I'm wondering if I really need it at all.

I wear daily lenses and i have been for about a month, i was just tryna take it out but then i saw it for s split second before i couldn't find it on thr floor or in my eye. After putting a bunch of eye drops in blinking a bunch while lookong all over the place and massaging my eyelid i gave il and assumed it is not in there anymore, what is the chance it still is? I have no sensatjon of anything being in my eye.

I recently got a test done concluding that I need prism glasses due to lack of binocular vision. Not much on each eye, but enough to make a difference in regard to headaches and blurry vision after reading or watching tv for too long.

I received alternative treatment after the same conclusion a year ago, which I was told was supposed to help me for life, so that I wouldn’t need glasses before my vision actually struggled. I am not cross-eyes or suffer from double vision. I am young of age, which should make a difference.

I am not ready to wear glasses yet (since my vision don’t need it, but my muscles does) and I would like to avoid glasses for a couple of years.

What can I do? Are there lenses with prism? Or other alternatives treatments? Botox? Laser?

She lost a bunch of her myopia control lenses and the opticians were only able to give her a small bridging supply. She's on her last pair today, her glasses are a wreck, and opticians say another interim order could take 2 days.

As an emergency measure I looked for standard type lenses to buy online, but I can't find any with BC 8.3 /Dia 14.5 specs. And now the opticians is closed.

Would it be safe to compromise on either BC or diameter? Logic suggests (to me) that the base curve would be the more important metric to match exactly, but I'm aware of how little I know about contact lense fit.

She would need them for 2 or 3 days max. I know that being stuck with her broken glasses and unable to leave the house for that time would not be great.

Any informed opinions or signposting to good resources would be greatly appreciated, we are in the UK. Thank you.

I had a cataract lens placed in my left eye after having some retina surgery about 3 years ago. I went to the eye doctor last week for a new prescription. My vision is a little "wavy" because of it.

I ordered glasses from the optician that is associated with my optometrist's office after the exam. They didn't measure my PD or do the marker thing on the lenses in the new frames that I chose. I have enough trouble seeing comfortably as it is. Is not having my PD measured going make this problem worse? My prescription is

OD Sphere: -2.00 Cyl: -0.75 Axis 085

OS +0.75 Cyl: -1.00 Axis 050

Thanks

Been wearing progressive eyeglasses for years and adapted fine to them. Extremely farsighted (+7) with astigmatism (CYL 1.50) and a 2.50 add. The struggle is with distance. I've had a few different scripts over the years and though reading and medium distance feel fine I've always had to tilt my head up for full far distance focus. I'm updating my script and want to improve this. I'm paying a lot for high end digital lenses. Has anyone been through this and found a solution? My current optician is saying if I raise my segment height (move the lenses up in the frame) then I can correct the distance thing but it'll also raise my reading position. I actually tried that by putting some spacers on the bridge and it does of course fix the distance thing but throws off the close. I've read that one thing that might help is increasing the vertical corridor so there's more space in the lenses from close to far. It's all frustrating because my sweet spot for distance is just about halfway up the lenses - but my natural pupil position is much closer to the top for distance. Anyway if anyone's had experience with modifying the vertical corridor I'd love to hear about it. Thanks very much.

hi i’m 22M just got glasses, first time wearer. as my vision has been getting blurry i took a trip to the optometrist and they suggested i might have keratoconus, now as i’ve just gotten my glasses today and only had them on for a couple of hours , everything looks weird like my field of view seems very limited and things are very zoomed in. it helps with reading but i feel like it doesn’t feel right hahah idk just some advice might be nice like is this just how going from nothing to such a high perscription feels ?

is this just teething problems or have i gotten the wrong prescription ?

can provide more information if necessary:)

Hi all. I'm looking for a second opinion. Recently did an appointment with my optometrist and they said my vision had progressed quite significantly since my previous appointment (about a year ago). My prescription has increased about -2 in both eyes in that time, so I'm now about -4 in both eyes. They recommended I have my next pair of glasses fitted with myopic control lenses.

How useful are they for someone who isn't a child? My hesitance in getting them stems from not wanting to buy frames directly from my optometrist - they mark them up insanely high. I have my measurements and would much rather buy them online if possible (doesn't appear to be possible with the specialized lenses).

Hi all, my wife had a visual migraine (dancing kaleidoscope) for the first time a few months ago and got an updated prescription earlier this month for the first time in 5 years. Her prescription had gone from being the same in both eyes with hardly any correction at all to there being a .75 difference between the eyes (+1.00 and +.25). She got the new reading prescription filled and immediately felt terrible -- headache, motion sickness, dizziness, and she had trouble focusing with the glasses on. She tried to push through for two days, wearing the glasses for a couple hours each day, assuming she just needed to give her eyes the chance to adjust, but her eyes didn't and since that first day, her eyes no longer work together to focus automatically. Her eyes are constantly going out of focus every 3 seconds or so and she has to reset her eyes and force them to focus constantly. This constant unfocused vision has led to constant dizziness and motion sickness. The optometrist didn't seem concerned and said that it could take a few weeks for the eyes to adjust and that she should just keep wearing them as much as she can tolerate them. The problem is that the constant unfocused state and accompanying motion sickness are constant regardless of whether she has the glasses on or not. She picked up her new prescription on August 7 and she has been living with these debilitating symptoms (she's unable to do her work, which requires a lot of reading and computer work) since then. We bought a Brock string so she could do convergence insufficiency exercises but that hasn't improved anything. Is it possible that this is all just a migraine that is impacting the eyes only? Any advice for how to deal with this?

As I have +2 and +5 sph, 1.67 has usually always been fine, but this optician said 1.74 only, I questioned it and they said that.

Is that correct

Hello 👋 I’m 19, I’ve been wearing glasses since I was about 10 and I’ve always had problems with reading due to slight double vision/shadowing. I didn’t realize that wasn’t just how people see until I was about 15 and since then I’ve had 4 pairs of glasses that haven’t fixed the problem at all and it’s only getting worse. My last appointment I specifically brought this up and even asked about prism lenses potentially being something that could help but they completely dismissed it and said my eyes aren’t misaligned “enough” to worry and told me to look up a type of lenses myself (it was like neuro prisms or something? either way not something I could get for myself). Has anyone else experienced this? I’m going back to my eye doctor because the semesters starting and I can only read large paragraphs for about 10 minutes at a time without needed to stop because the double vision makes me nauseous and gives me horrible headaches and figured I’d post here incase anyone had any advice for getting them to take the problem seriously.

HELP! I gave myself a chemical burn 3 months ago from a lash glue, and I'm still having trouble with vision.

When I walk outside, it's feels like someone electrocuted my eyeballs. I see shimmery, vibrating almost colorful like glitter. I've seen an optometrist, ophthalmologist and a neuro ophthalmologist and they all say my eyes look PERFECT. The
ophthalmologist suggested | keep using preservative free eye drops every 2 hours. I was on a round of eye steroids, and was told to discontinue. That was two months ago.

My eyes always feel dry and I feel like I can rinse my eyes in water for hours because it feel SO good (obviously I don't rinse it for hours). I also sleep with an ice pack over my eyes at times.
Please HELP! is this normal after receiving a chemical burn?? Everyone is saying I'm healed but I don't feel like it!

Hi, I am 21M and am wondering if anyone has had a similar experience to me.
I have always had glasses but haven’t had a test in about 6 years, I broke my old glasses about a year ago and haven’t had any since but decided to get a new pair and haven’t my eyes re tested.
My eyes are -0.75 worse in each eye and also have worse astigmatism than last time I was tested. I picked up my new pair of glasses and had the worst headache the day after mainly around the eye area but all over the head really. This was 2 days ago and I have a headache ever since despite not wearing them since yesterday. Is this a common side effect of changing to a stronger prescription or something to contact the opticians over?

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I have a very strange situation going on. I have dry eye with a tbut of 5 in both eyes. It has never bothered me & I use lubricating pf drops to manage.
Anyways, last week I got some hot sauce fumes in my eye from putting my fingers under my eyes. I flushed my eyes as one turned red & burned. The next day, it was still bothering me so I used some “soothing” saline to help which actually made it worse (burning & red) due to the preservative (BAK) so I washed that out immediately as well. 2 days later, I went to the eye doctor due to my eyes feeling way more dry & burning when I blink. My tbut was the SAME with some tiny dry patches & I was told I have papillary conjunctivitis after flipping my lids. Told to use optase allegro drops & cool compresses. Just went to my regular eye doctor yesterday as I’m not feeling better, my eyes feel bone dry even when they’re shut. Was told my lids are lumpy & bumpy & that it’s stemming from an allergy or sensitivity since I don’t wear contacts. Also have demodex. I am now starting a short course of steroids but the thing is, did this happen overnight? Why did hot sauce trigger me? My eyes have felt sort of raw for more than a week. Have the papillae been there the whole time, & that’s what they think is bothering me when in reality it’s something else? I just don’t understand.

*edit to add, my actual eyeballs aren’t red whatsoever, you’d have no idea I’m even going through anything by looking at me

I (20F) noticed this summer I have a hard time distinguishing different shades of the same color. I worked a job where we would inspect dorm rooms, and when I’d look at our maroon mattresses, I couldn’t really tell when they were dirty because I could notice the typical darker staining my coworkers would see. My coworkers would come to the room and get into me saying it was obvious it had to be replaced- but I had no idea.

Could this be a kind of color blindness or just normal?