Clarity

[lydy]

So, I got new glasses from America's Best, which I've never used before. They were cheap, and well, glasses are glasses, right? I picked up my new glasses today. One pair of bifocals, one pair of computer glasses.

The bifocals have the line rather higher than on the old glasses, and my eyes had a hard time adjusting both to the new clarity and to the location of the bifocal portion of the focal. In the eight years since I last had new glasses, my right eye as developed an astigmatism. So the change in clarity is quite striking, but my eyes are working hard at getting used to the new glasses. So, I have a very small headache.

Just at the moment, though, I'm wearing my computer glasses, and there's something very, very odd. The screen on my laptop is trapezoidal, rather than square, distinctly smaller at the bottom than at the top, with the sides slanting outwards. It doesn't look like this when I put on my old glasses, it looks roughly square (which of course it actually is). Moreover, when I put on my new bifocals, the trapezoidal shape is still there, although somewhat less pronounced. I am seriously weirded out by this. Is there something wrong with these glasses? Or is this what happens when you correct for astigmatism in two eyes at the same time?

It's Minicon, so I really don't have time to deal with this and go to the store and ask searching questions, and possibly insist that they make my glasses again ... which would be kind of a pain, anyway, since it took them nineteen days the last time.

Sigh. Possibly I should have stuck with Lenscrafters.

Comments

[pameladean]

I have had major adjustment problems of this nature with new glasses -- the grout lines of tiled floors slanting up all around like a bowl, weird color effects at the edges of things -- but they usually eased off in a day or two. If they don't, something may well be wrong.

P.

[naomikritzer]

Maybe give it the weekend (since you need to go to Minicon anyway) and see if this is still happening on Monday? I've definitely had some weird adjustment issues with new glasses, where straight lines looked curved and stuff popped out at me oddly and so on. Usually in a day or two the world started looking normal again.

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

I'd be part of the group advocating wait over the weekend to see. This long a time between astigmatism corrections can have such results--I've had similar happen when my prescription changed drastically after a couple of years.

[quility.livejournal.com]

I just got glasses there and made note of their 30 day refund with receipt policy. I'm hoping it's 30 days from pickup not from order.

[lydy.livejournal.com]

Still trapezoidal. Possibly a little less so. I am assured by numerous people that this happens when an astigmatism gets corrected, so I'm just trying to ride it out.