cataracts and enchantment
One of my colleagues recently shared with me his frustrations of trying to get new glasses that didn't give him a headache. After he went back to his eye doc and they retested everything, he made the choice that i didn't and continued with the original glasses as prescribed. He said after persevering for a few days he didn't have a headache any
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This already was the second opinion! Or third, I guess. Previous eye docs didn't even mention anything other than a vague "there's some damage but nothing to worry about" and said I needed to fix my prescription first, in particular getting progressive lenses. Which I tried and they gave me a worse headache and dizziness than I already had, so I went back to different lenses, first astigmatism-corrected, then not, each one with varying levels of blurriness and discomfort... It's that ongoing struggle that sent me to this place for yet another checkup, and it was comforting for someone to finally just be straight-up about my problem. That actually gave me the confidence to go back and try again with a new prescription, this time a dedicated indoor/computer pair of glasses, just to see if it makes the fatigue any less - knowing it anyway won't fix the blurriness.
With regard to surgery, I wonder if the reason they discouraged me from getting it now was because it will only be covered if they can prove a certain level of impairment, and since I haven't had a prescription that worked properly for several years, the evidence isn't enough? I dunno. I am not too bothered because I have been living like this for long enough already, it's uncomfortable and inconvenient but life goes on. The main thing for me was the validation that I'm not crazy and imagining things that aren't real.
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