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Old 06-03-2010, 08:22 PM   #1
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I just got glasses to correct nearsightedness (damn, that is a big word) in my right eye. FYI near-sighted-ness means I can't see stuff far away. I'm +25 in one eye and -2 in the other, whatever that means.

I've been breaking in the new glasses (I'm a few hours into it) and it's brutal. This is my first time wearing glasses, and my two eyes are way different.

Here's my question:

In my bad eye, with the glasses I am now able to read things far away that would otherwise be blurry. HOWEVER, I used to be able to read things close up with my bad eye, and now when I wear the glasses I have trouble reading things up close.

Is this normal? Will my eyes adjust (they told me 1 week...FML). Is my prescription slightly off? Anyone have first-hand experience with this.

I just want to get my pron on and everything is....I dunno...macabre. That is a good descriptive word.
This has never happened to me before, however, I wear contacts almost all the time as opposed to glasses. If this doesn't clear up in a week I would go back and speak to someone.
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Old 06-03-2010, 10:01 PM   #2
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+25 or +2,5? +25 would be..wow.

Anyway, I've been prescribed glasses almost 8 years ago, but started wearing them regularly for the last 6 months. It'll probably take about a month to adjust, but I still sometimes get headaches.
Yeah, not sure on the +25 thing or whatever. Don't quote me on that.

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This has never happened to me before, however, I wear contacts almost all the time as opposed to glasses. If this doesn't clear up in a week I would go back and speak to someone.
Yessir! I will give it a week or two.

To clarify: with my bad eye (right eye), when I am not wearing glasses I can read the words on my computer screen without any issue. Things just become a shitty blur when I start looking at stuff past a few feet in front of me. When I put the glasses on and just look with my right eye, the words on my computer are a bit blurry, smaller, and harder to focus. BUT, I can get it to sort of focus.

I've proposed 3 explanations, and have given myself a 2-week deadline to see improvement (no pun intended) or go back to recheck the prescription.

1) It is a bad prescription.
2) My brain is still adjusting to having 2 different fields of depth in each eye. Each eye sends a separate picture to the brain, but it gets combined into one picture.
3) This is just a caveat of having glasses for nearsightedness. We shall see.

And thank you for the input so far, folks.
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