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Yes, squinty. That's my mood. And it is annoying enough that I am curious if anyone has faced a similar situation.
A couple of weeks ago, I went for an eye exam and ordered new glasses. I think I had shared with a few of you that I had been having some problems looking at computer monitors for hours on end, so I finally got annoyed enough at changing color and brightness settings that I gave up and made an appointment with a new optometrist. This is a big step for me. I adore my optometrist back in Philadelphia and have resisted leaving, so I schedule an appointment whenever I make a trip back. But I haven't traveled back there in over two years and apparently my vision has changed in that time, so it was time to finally bite the bullet and find a new doctor.
So I did, and I went in for my appointment two weeks ago today. And it turned out that my distance vision had actually gotten a little better. After a long talk with the new doc, he felt that moving to the right description should fix almost all of the monitor-related problems I was having and there was no need for a work-specific pair of glasses. Yay! So I went ahead and picked out a new set of frames and ordered new glasses.
They arrived last Thursday and I went in to get my new glasses Friday morning. They seem great and I like them and everything is very clear, except for one fairly significant problem. The edges of the new lenses seem to be made in such a way that whatever I am looking at is reflected at the tops and the bottom of each lens. If I am anywhere with overhead light (which, unfortunately, includes just about anywhere inside or outside!), everything I look at is perfectly clear except that there is a rainbow at both the top and bottom of my glasses. I held on throughout the weekend, hoping that I could train my eyes to simply stop paying attention to these extra images, and to a certain extent I have. But it really messes up my perception of the world. At one point while driving under an overpass, I quite literally ducked in the drivers seat because a truck passed overhead and my brain registered this combination of light and dark as a very large bird moving directly over my head.
I also spent the weekend paying way too much attention to other people's glasses. I know my new lenses at not as tall as my olds ones so I thought that might be part of it, and I imagine it is. But I keep asking to trade glasses with anyone I meet who's frames seem about the same size and I have yet to find another pair that have the same issue. And everybody who tries my glasses on sees the same thing, which is nice because there was always the possibility I was going insane. :)
As of this morning, I really thought I could get used to this, as annoying as it was. But then I walked into the office and experienced them under fluorescent lights for the first time and it is not fun at all. I have felt like I am on the verge of a headache for the past three hours. So I think I need to head back over there and see what they can do about it. I'm hoping they can do something, maybe coat the very edges with something to block the light. But I don't know. It's all very weird. On the bright side, pretty colors!
I'm just curious if anybody on my friends list has ever experienced something like this?
A couple of weeks ago, I went for an eye exam and ordered new glasses. I think I had shared with a few of you that I had been having some problems looking at computer monitors for hours on end, so I finally got annoyed enough at changing color and brightness settings that I gave up and made an appointment with a new optometrist. This is a big step for me. I adore my optometrist back in Philadelphia and have resisted leaving, so I schedule an appointment whenever I make a trip back. But I haven't traveled back there in over two years and apparently my vision has changed in that time, so it was time to finally bite the bullet and find a new doctor.
So I did, and I went in for my appointment two weeks ago today. And it turned out that my distance vision had actually gotten a little better. After a long talk with the new doc, he felt that moving to the right description should fix almost all of the monitor-related problems I was having and there was no need for a work-specific pair of glasses. Yay! So I went ahead and picked out a new set of frames and ordered new glasses.
They arrived last Thursday and I went in to get my new glasses Friday morning. They seem great and I like them and everything is very clear, except for one fairly significant problem. The edges of the new lenses seem to be made in such a way that whatever I am looking at is reflected at the tops and the bottom of each lens. If I am anywhere with overhead light (which, unfortunately, includes just about anywhere inside or outside!), everything I look at is perfectly clear except that there is a rainbow at both the top and bottom of my glasses. I held on throughout the weekend, hoping that I could train my eyes to simply stop paying attention to these extra images, and to a certain extent I have. But it really messes up my perception of the world. At one point while driving under an overpass, I quite literally ducked in the drivers seat because a truck passed overhead and my brain registered this combination of light and dark as a very large bird moving directly over my head.
I also spent the weekend paying way too much attention to other people's glasses. I know my new lenses at not as tall as my olds ones so I thought that might be part of it, and I imagine it is. But I keep asking to trade glasses with anyone I meet who's frames seem about the same size and I have yet to find another pair that have the same issue. And everybody who tries my glasses on sees the same thing, which is nice because there was always the possibility I was going insane. :)
As of this morning, I really thought I could get used to this, as annoying as it was. But then I walked into the office and experienced them under fluorescent lights for the first time and it is not fun at all. I have felt like I am on the verge of a headache for the past three hours. So I think I need to head back over there and see what they can do about it. I'm hoping they can do something, maybe coat the very edges with something to block the light. But I don't know. It's all very weird. On the bright side, pretty colors!
I'm just curious if anybody on my friends list has ever experienced something like this?