r/eyeglasses

Hello,

I’m looking for a new pair of glasses and have visited several opticians for advice.

One optician recommended **Essilor E-Series progressive lenses**, while another advised against them and instead recommended **Essilor Comfort Max** or **Essilor Physio 3.0**, saying they would provide the best visual comfort.

Does anyone have experience with these lenses or have any recommendations?

For reference, I’m a 20-year-old woman with the following prescription:
Right eye: -1.50 (approximately)
Left eye: -2.50
Astigmatism in both eyes.

I currently wear **young progressive lenses** because I have difficulty focusing at near distances due to an accommodative problem (I can’t remember the exact medical term).

I’d really appreciate hearing about your experiences with these different Essilor lens designs, especially if you’ve worn progressive lenses at a younger age.

I’m hoping to get some advice because I’m feeling a bit lost & I don’t want to keep bothering my local optician (who has been super nice to me, but I feel bad lol). I'm 35 & have worn glasses for about 27 years. My prescription has been on the high side for most of my life, but I have never experienced anything like this before and my old glasses (older prescription) do not have this problem.
I’m experiencing what I think is chromatic aberration, but only in my peripheral vision when I look to the side. It doesn’t happen when I look straight on. It's worse when I look at screens, and I am a graphic & web designer so I don't think I can really 'get used' to this. My old frames were thin metal, these new frames are much thicker & plastic. I thought because my prescription got worse I had to get thicker frames? The optician ordered a second pair of these glasses with some changes in hopes it would help. But it hasn't. They suggested I try them for a few days to see if I get used to it, but as a designer I’m worried I never will.

My Prescription:

OD: -7.75 Sphere, -0.75 Cylinder, Axis 162

OS: -9.00 Sphere, -0.25 Cylinder, Axis 015

I'll also paste what was on my receipt for the glasses they ordered the first & the second time, in hopes this info helps but I don't believe it lists the actual plastic material?

First Time:
"SV DST 1.67 Clear Crizal Natural(Plastic)
Digital Single Vision
Hi-Index 1.67
DST Processing
Crizal Natural Look Anti-Reflective
Crizal Backside UV"

Second Time:
"SV 1.67 Premium AR (Plastic)
Single Vision 0101 5Z
Plastic Hi-Index 1.67 PremAR
Aspheric Lens
Premium + Anti-Reflective
UV Protection"

I feel bad asking for a third pair & I'm thinking of going to a different LensCrafters to return these and just order completely different frames? I know high prescriptions have limitations but I’m hoping someone here can help. I just want to make sure I’m not just being bothersome because I believe it was mentioned the material is NOT polycarbonate which can cause this issue? I think? Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks!

My eyes are fairly sensitive to the light and in my line of work I’m constantly going inside and outside all day, from dark unlighted spaces to being outside in areas with absolutely no shade and tons of glare from the sun reflecting off surfaces. It’s a real problem and I can’t find a solution I don’t think transitions will work because they take a while to change. Do any people wear eyeglasses that have a shading like a gradient like sunglasses have? I have yellow 50% tinted eyeglasses right now but they’re just not dark enough for sunny days.

Hi everyone,

I spend long hours (12+ hours) looking at a monitor at my desk every day for coding and my eyes are feeling pretty strained constantly.... I'm looking for a solution to stop the fatigue and potentially help me prevent any future vision loss due to the nature of my daily work.

Here is the thing: I don’t wear glasses and I don’t have any vision loss. My distance vision is fine. I am strictly looking for something to act as a preventative measure to reduce muscle strain while staring at a screen at arm's length all day.

I've been looking into getting a cheap over-the-counter pair of +0.50 magnification glasses (computer readers or screen readers) because the slight zoom is supposed to act as a physical "helper" so my internal eye muscles don't have to flex so hard to focus on the monitor.

However, everything I read online completely contradicts itself:

1. Standard online blogs say if you have 20/20 vision, you should only wear "plano" (0.00 power) blue light glasses, and that magnifying glasses are only for people with vision loss.
2. But then other optical guides say a mild +0.50 power is mathematically perfect for intermediate computer distances (24 inches) to offload muscle strain.

I'm genuinely worried about a couple of things:

• Is using a +0.50 lens when I don't "need" a prescription going to permanently alter my vision or make my eyes dependent on glasses?
• Is it actually recommended for normal people with zero vision loss just for preventative eye protection and comfort?
• If you do this, does it actually help with the physical muscle strain, or am I misunderstanding how these low-power lenses work?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I've been using glasses since pre-teen, I'm almost 40. I do enjoy using glasses, but I'm very sensitive to changes.

Recently had to do a big increase in my astigmatism prescription on my non-dominant eye, the dominant eye had no changes.

The first day with my new glasses was pretty bad, as expected, fish bowl effect, I felt super small, the usual symptoms. By the 3rd day, things improved, straight lines were straight when I looked straight at them.

However, 3 weeks in, and the bottom half of my glasses still shows me curvature, including on my dominant eye side that had no changes, and while by week 2 things were kinda normal, week 3 feels like my eyes are rolling back, as in, un-adapting to my glasses, and going back to week 1 feeling.

I just don't feel comfortable anymore, no nausea, no headaches, but I always felt that my eyes were working double time with my brain to adapt, and I still feel like that, 3 weeks in.

Some other info, when I move my head, everything still moves ever so slightly out of shape in my vision, as if I'm watching the world through a glass of something. It's not noticeable if I'm not looking or thinking about it, but it's clearly noticeable if I look at it.

Is this normal at 3 weeks?

Is there any downside to this, as long as the frame allows swapping lenses? thank you

I want to get reading glasses because I have to take my progressive glasses off to see well up close. But I’m afraid that the reading portion of my glasses that my eye doctor prescribed me is too weak to make good reading glasses that are strong enough for me. What can I do?

I got a new pair of glasses recently (prescription; OD SPH -3.00 Cyl -0.25, OS SPH -2.75, Cyl -0.25) which is only slightly worse (by -0.25 in either eye) than my previous one which was consistent for several years. I have been a daily contacts wearer for the past 10+ years but had worn glasses every day for the decade before that. I like to have a pair for convenience and emergencies like when a contact falls out of my eye while I'm driving (has happened before) or when I just get sick of wearing contacts. Realistically I use them almost never but wanted to get an updated prescription since it had been a while.

I decided to ball out and treat my eyes right with high index 1.67 lenses since I though it'd be worth it for the advertised "clearer" vision and all the coatings and things. The problem with my new lenses is that there is very bothersome distortion around the periphery and the best way I can describe my vision while wearing them is that the whole room seems to shift or move when I look around, and of course my depth perception is way off to boot. Its not too bad when I'm sitting still but being up and about is AWFUL. Its so bad that I avoid wearing them to work and driving in them (which is why I bought them!!) and don't really even like wearing them chilling at home. I tried wearing them for three days straight around the house and still could not comfortably adjust.

The annoying thing is my old pair that I still have from high school/college do not do this, and actually have zero distortion or issues, and I think it changed because of the high index lenses I now have, because I had this same problem with a different pair of high index lenses that I also never wear for the same reasons. And I don't believe its the frame size as all the pairs of glasses I have are large, even my old ones.

I know I don't have a particularly strong prescription and thus don't really need the benefit of thin lenses provided by high index. Would it be worth it to downgrade my lenses to just the 1.57 or 1.6? I don't wear them enough for my brain to adjust like most forums are saying I should do and right now they are just a waste of several hundred dollars if I cant even use them as backups. I don't want to waste the money making the change if it wont help, though - I just want to get rid of this distortion.

Any advice or thought is appreciated!

TLDR; Bothersome distortion with high index lenses, is it worth it to downgrade the lens index to make them bearable to wear for an every-once-in-a-while user?

Okay, hear me out. I have been wearing glasses for over a decade and I accepted that my life was just destined to be a constant cycle of pushing them back up my nose every 5 minutes. My skin is on the oilier side and I love thick, chunky acetate frames. A terrible combination. I couldn't jog, I couldn't cook without them sliding down from the steam and if I looked down at my keyboard? Gone. It was incredibly frustrating and tbn drained mt energy.

A few weeks ago, I randomly stumbled upon those stick-on Bloom & Bloom nose silicone nose pads. I ordered a pack, genuinely not expecting much. YOU GUYS. They arrived, I slapped them on, and my life is officially divided into before and after.

It's been a months and my glasses have not slipped ONCE. Not even when I'm sweaty at the gym. They completely lock the frames in place. Plus, because they act like tiny soft cushions, that constant dull ache on my nose bridge is just.. gone. No more deep red marks at the end of the day.

I feel like a regular human being who can actually move their head freely without clutching their face. If you are struggling with sliding glasses, please don't suffer through it like I did. Best 20$ I've ever pent in my entire life, full stop