New Glasses and headache

[DorsetDude]

Hi

Had some new glasses made about a month ago. Asked the optician for a pair with closer focus and sacrifice a bit of distance as with my previous pair I could read my screen ok but reading documents on the desk I had to keep moving backwards.
Anyway the new glasses "seem" to be clearer closer and on the screen.

I had two weeks off where I never wore them. Now Ive come back and have a headache on the top right side of my head since monday and my right eye aches a bit. Im sure its the specs but if everything is in focus dont know why?
I'm of the opinion that you shouldnt have to "get used to" glasses.

Also since having these my vision without specs on seems to be really bad now.

Im going back to see him next monday but no idea what he needs to do to correct things??

Anyone any idea?

Thanks

 

[Willid1]

I had to get some new glasses earlier this year as the reading prescription I had wasn't right for using the computer and was giving me headaches.

I got some varifocal glasess - computer glasses - the optician called them. The lenses vary from top to bottm, bottom closer for keyboard and reading and top further away for the screen.

They work great but he did say to come back if they were not right, so they obviously have to have a bit of a guess on what you have told them about how you are going to use them.

The optician also said it takes some people a while to get used to them , but this is with these varifocal glasses, it's a bit like having to autofocus as you need to move your had up and down to get to the right bit of the lens for the distance you are looking at.

It may be that if you have single vision lenses then they are just not capable of doing what you want.

As soon as I switched to the new glasses the headaches stopped straight away.

HTH

David

 

[arclight]

Hi

Had some new glasses made about a month ago. Asked the optician for a pair with closer focus and sacrifice a bit of distance as with my previous pair I could read my screen ok but reading documents on the desk I had to keep moving backwards.
Anyway the new glasses "seem" to be clearer closer and on the screen.

I had two weeks off where I never wore them. Now Ive come back and have a headache on the top right side of my head since monday and my right eye aches a bit. Im sure its the specs but if everything is in focus dont know why?
I'm of the opinion that you shouldnt have to "get used to" glasses.

Also since having these my vision without specs on seems to be really bad now.

Im going back to see him next monday but no idea what he needs to do to correct things??

Anyone any idea?

Thanks

No one on here can give you a definitive answer, Keith. Consultation with the appropriately qualified professional is called for.

Apart from getting used to glasses sitting on your face your eyes should not need to get used to them. I would make one exception to that - varifocals. I found it impossible to use them. Made me dizzy. The optician acknowledged some folk had difficulty with them and gave a refund.

 

[DorsetDude]

Thanks David
He mentioned varifocals last time I was there but my mate here who has been wearing glasses for 40 years and uses same optician, reckons they dont work with a screen because you look up and down on the screen and you'd constantly be going into and out of the varifocal dividing line.
Top of my screen is at my eye level and then the rest (obviously) is below that. As I slouch in my chair throughout the day the effective height of the screen rises.

 

[DorsetDude]

No one on here can give you a definitive answer, Keith. Consultation with the appropriately qualified professional is called for.

Apart from getting used to glasses sitting on your face your eyes should not need to get used to them. I would make one exception to that - varifocals. I found it impossible to use them. Made me dizzy. The optician acknowledged some folk had difficulty with them and gave a refund.

I have had glasses for ages, this would be my 4th pair. so I dont need to get used to them on my face as it were.
As soon as I put this new pair on I feel the strain straight away it feels like, and yet everything is in focus perfectly..

 

[scorpius]

Thanks David
He mentioned varifocals last time I was there but my mate here who has been wearing glasses for 40 years and uses same optician, reckons they dont work with a screen because you look up and down on the screen and you'd constantly be going into and out of the varifocal dividing line.
Top of my screen is at my eye level and then the rest (obviously) is below that. As I slouch in my chair throughout the day the effective height of the screen rises.

That sounds more like bi-focals than varifocals, bifocals have a dividing line varifocals have a gradual change like a graduated filter.

Anyway from personal experience I can say that varifocals are no problem when using a screen. I spend much of my working day using a PC and have no problems with the varifocals I moved to 9 months ago after 30 years of single vision lenses. Apart from the normal of changing to varifocals bit of remembering to look through the right bit of the lens and move your head not your eyes horizontally.

Something else to take into account not all varifocals are equal, you really do get what you pay for. The cheap ones having a very small usable area in the middle of the lens.

 

[Steep]

I've done a lot of research into the problem of bad glasses/prescriptions. It's not uncommon to have headaches with new specs, especially if the prescription is a lot different to your old one. Your eyes have been used to working with the old glasses and take a while to adjust to the new ones. That said it's not uncommon to get a bad prescription from your optician (hence my reading up on the subject) so if the problem persists go back and get the prescription checked. What you may not know is that all prescriptions are best guess, there's no absolute accurate method of measuring eyesight.

 

[scorpius]

That said it's not uncommon to get a bad prescription from your optician (hence my reading up on the subject) so if the problem persists go back and get the prescription checked.

Or in my experience the prescription is correct but the finished glasses are wrong, I've had this more than once. In one case the centre point of one lens was about 1 cm below where it should have been and the other was 0.5 cm to the left. No wonder I couldn't see very well

Regardless of prescription problem or glasses problem the only thing to do is go back to the optician and explain the issue you've got.

 

[kelack]

Mine was caused by the nose resty thingies pinching the bridge of my nose too much

 

[Shine On]

My father had an issue the same as this, with varifocal lenses, and the optician (after eventually giving another eye test) said that it was just my father needing to get used to his new glasses, and that he should put up with the discomfort for a while. He went for a second opinion elsewhere who were less than complimentary about his treatment, said that the prescription given was a little out for my father's eyes and the glasses had been made badly. They started again, new lenses made properly, they were immediately spot on from day one.

Unless it's a pressure thing as Kelly has mentioned, I'd get on back at them.

 

[DorsetDude]

Apart from the normal of changing to varifocals bit of remembering to look through the right bit of the lens and move your head not your eyes horizontally.

Do what? Surely the lens, left to right is the same prescription? Only up down would it vary? Or did you mean vertically?


I am going back on Monday as mentioned. Brought my old pair in today for some relief.

 

[drounding]

Certainly check with your optomitrist.

Varifocals have a limited field of view compared to single vision lenses, the sweet spot is in the middle. It is true that you have to move you head up and down to get the correct focus point for the distance you need. It is also true though that you may need to move your head a bit more left to right as well, as the lens may not be perfect in the outer areas. It is worthwhile discussing this with your optician, you get what you pay for with lenses (as we know!) and the more expensive the lens the better the field of view in focus.

Either way it can take some time to adapt in your brain, once done you'll wonder how you managed without them.

 

[arclight]

I have had glasses for ages, this would be my 4th pair. so I dont need to get used to them on my face as it were.
As soon as I put this new pair on I feel the strain straight away it feels like, and yet everything is in focus perfectly..

I know that feeling. It is horrible. Too strong a magnification caused it with mine.

 

[DorsetDude]

thanks Doug, maybe I'll ask him to back off a little.

I wonder if magnification is linked to how close you can "see" or not.

 

[arclight]

thanks Doug, maybe I'll ask him to back off a little.

I wonder if magnification is linked to how close you can "see" or not.

Could be - if you use separate glasses for reading go into one of the supermarkets that sells over the counter el cheapo reading glasses and try the various magnifications until you find the one that is right.

 

[scorpius]

Do what? Surely the lens, left to right is the same prescription? Only up down would it vary? Or did you mean vertically?

No as Doug mentioned it's a horizontal thing as well with varifocals. The further from the centre the less to your prescription they are and the less things are in focus.

The cheaper the lens the smaller the usable area is and the more you have to move your head not just your eyes to be looking through the 'correct' bit of the lens.

 

[wack61]

I think I'm going to take my varifocals back to Costco

They cost £400 , have esilor lenses which were fine in my last pair from them but the close focus part of the lens is very narrow , it's ok in the middle but if I turn my head even just a few mm it goes blurry