It definitely occurred to me that this could trigger an LSD flashback if I actually had any LSD experience to flashback to. But hopefully drugs are much less annoying than this. :)
It wasn't too bad because I spent much of the weekend indoors, and I was able to ignore it on me few trips out. But as soon as I stepped outside this morning and then came into the office, I realized how bad it would be to have to consciously ignore this 10+ hours a day. Ick.
That would make me NUTS!!! I think I've heard of other people having that problem, but I don't know how they fix it. I'll be curious to see. Hope it's a quick fix!
Yeah, it was driving me nuts. I went over there at lunch and talked to them. I wasn't very impressed with the first person I spoke to, she kept trying to tell me that it was the material, which I doubted because it was the same as my old glasses, or the size of the lenses, which I doubted because I had tried other people's on and they didn't have a similar problem.
So I finally raised enough stink that she asked someone else, who looked at them and said she thought they had buffed the edges and made them transparent rather than just cleaning the extra material off but leaving them opaque. So eventually they sent them back to get a new pair made, with instructions not to buff them. So I'm hoping that the new glasses will not have the same problem.
No quick fix, unfortunately. So I'm back to wearing the old ones for another 7-10 days. :( But I suppose it beats leaving them off and feeling my way through life.
When I first had to wear glasses I could see my own eyeballs reflected in the glass. It drove me crazy and it took me a long time to look past them. If I try hard now I can see them.
When I got my bi-focals a year or so ago I entered a whole new realm of nausea and irritation. I am still convinced that they got the prescription wrong in my right eye. Depending on how my head is tilted I feel like I'm ten feet tall when I'm walking. Talk about trippy.
I don't think I have ever seen my own eyeball! That would be weird. If I move my head around to certain angles, I have definitely seem a reflection of my own cheek or eye. It can definitely be a little freaky. But it usually only happens in bright sun, or at least that is my best recollection.
That definitely sounds weird. I have worn bifocals since I was a teen, so I am just used to them now. But I don't recall any experience like yours even when I was just starting. But considering my own experience this afternoon, I can see how they might not be very quick to admit it was their mistake. :(
Call the doctor and complain. See if they have a satisfaction guarantee.
Personally, I can't stand glasses anymore, I wear my contacts as much as healthily possible. I know the glare you're talking about, it tends to happen when the lenses are thicker than they used to be.
Yeah, eventually I got myself worked up to the point where I marched back over there and talked to them. In addition to hating to make trouble, I have a weird almost-phobia about being the center of attention when it comes to anything medical, so I really did put off going back and long as I could. But it was too much
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It wasn't too bad because I spent much of the weekend indoors, and I was able to ignore it on me few trips out. But as soon as I stepped outside this morning and then came into the office, I realized how bad it would be to have to consciously ignore this 10+ hours a day. Ick.
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So I finally raised enough stink that she asked someone else, who looked at them and said she thought they had buffed the edges and made them transparent rather than just cleaning the extra material off but leaving them opaque. So eventually they sent them back to get a new pair made, with instructions not to buff them. So I'm hoping that the new glasses will not have the same problem.
No quick fix, unfortunately. So I'm back to wearing the old ones for another 7-10 days. :( But I suppose it beats leaving them off and feeling my way through life.
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When I got my bi-focals a year or so ago I entered a whole new realm of nausea and irritation. I am still convinced that they got the prescription wrong in my right eye. Depending on how my head is tilted I feel like I'm ten feet tall when I'm walking. Talk about trippy.
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That definitely sounds weird. I have worn bifocals since I was a teen, so I am just used to them now. But I don't recall any experience like yours even when I was just starting. But considering my own experience this afternoon, I can see how they might not be very quick to admit it was their mistake. :(
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Personally, I can't stand glasses anymore, I wear my contacts as much as healthily possible. I know the glare you're talking about, it tends to happen when the lenses are thicker than they used to be.
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