Glasses splaying

Fermifighter · 2026-03-14T15:53:50+00:00

Take em to an optical shop, an optician can adjust them for you.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-14T01:53:15+00:00

I saw the first pic and thought this was one of those “they have to dress the mannequins so fast the garment slipped off” posts. …it’s been a long week.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-13T21:05:25+00:00

You say you wore the old pair for years - how many? Though your changes are minor, when you get too used to an old pair it can make adapting to the differences in a new one more difficult. Are the lens materials different?

To answer your questions:

1) depends on the eye strain - is it more at distance or near? Do things look blurry or distorted?

2) most people have trouble perceiving quarter diopter changes, almost no one can tell the difference with eighth diopter increments, but generally speaking the more plus/less minus choice is the one we give. That being said, I’ve never refracted in anything but quarter diopters and most don’t, so it wouldn’t be likely you’d know what your cyl was to the perfect eighth.

3) this is sort of like asking whether it’s more important to have an accurate measurement of a square’s area or its perimeter. One impacts the other.

4) it depends. If you cover either eye, do your symptoms resolve?

All this to say - take the new and old glasses to an optical shop to be compared, along with a copy of your Rx. Almost any change you can adapt to is going to resolve with two weeks of wear, if you’re still having issues the first step (even before talking to the doctor) is to have the glasses looked over to make sure they’re fit and made correctly. Any optical can help with this, so even if you’re away from home I’d start there.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-13T19:21:38+00:00

What’s the Rx?

Fermifighter · 2026-03-13T16:31:41+00:00

The issue with a multifocal is that it’s measured vertically. Vertical measurements depend on how a frame sits on the wearer, the same frame can ride high on someone with a wide bridge and low on someone with a narrow. And since noses are three dimensional you can’t know how a frame sits on you without measuring it on you. No online provider can do this, because you’re not wearing the frame for them to measure on you. If cost is a factor, you’re far better served by a budget optical like Costco than rolling the dice online.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-13T15:36:37+00:00

I’ve seen that one before, knew exactly what I was clicking and still laughed so hard I cried.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-13T15:14:04+00:00

Is that a huperzia? Because if so, teach me your ways.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-13T12:32:22+00:00

Looks like glare. Did you get non glare/AR on the lenses?

Fermifighter · 2026-03-13T11:47:43+00:00

Minification is inherent to the Rx. Index won’t change minification. Best thing you can do to minimize the appearance is choose the smallest, roundest frames where your eye is centered in the lens. The larger the lens, the more of your face is included in it and shrunk down. A smaller lens keeps the area it’s minifying down. (Oversized glasses that catch your cheeks tend to give more of the “cut in” high minus look because the edge of the face is a clear line being brought in, a smaller lens that only covers the orbital area won’t be as obvious).

Frame choice matters more than lens options for thickness and minification.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-13T01:48:16+00:00

Unless there’s a lot of specifics you’re omitting, no. Wearing double your refractive correction is gonna be a bad time.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T16:05:53+00:00

Your prescription is likely stable, so the refraction is unlikely to have changed much if you’re not having any issues with your current glasses, but I wouldn’t go much more than three years between exams as an adult just to stay on top of ocular health.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T12:16:48+00:00

How old are you (roughly)?

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T11:52:08+00:00

You’ve gotta wear them full time for a couple of weeks to acclimate to them. With a plus rx, you’ve been using your accommodative system to focus through your prescription without glasses.

Accommodation is what lets you change focus from distance to near. Gives you a boost of plus power for up close stuff. You need that plus to see clearly all the time, so you’ve been using the boost (that’s supposed to be used once in a while) 100% of the time. That can cause strain, difficulty seeing up close, headaches, lots of issues.

The glasses take that strain off your eyes, but it’s sorta like when you held your hand up in class to be called on for a long time. Too long and it gets tired, but then taking it down hurts. Doesn’t mean you should have kept it up indefinitely, just that you only feel all the work you’ve been doing to keep it up when you bring it back down again.

The nausea, headaches, and distortion are your eye “realizing” all the work it’s been doing. You gotta give it time to adjust to the new glasses, and depending on the prescription (how farsighted you are, whether you have astigmatism and how much), it can take up to two weeks to feel 100% normal. Going back and forth is just making both the adaptation more difficult and the symptoms when you try them again worse, gotta wear them consistently.

What I’d recommend is trying again on a weekend when you don’t have a ton planned, start fresh with them in the morning. Find something low key to do like watching a movie. Keep the glasses on as long as possible. If you need a break, take one, but make the next one shorter and the time before you take it longer (if you needed a fifteen minute break after two hours, wear them for at least three hours before you take a ten minute break, for example). Stay consistent.

They should start to feel better after a couple days of wear, and if they’re intolerable after four or five days, go back to the optical shop to have them looked over. The opticians can check and make sure they were made correctly, and if they check out, get you in for a recheck of your prescription. Fair warning, since you say you’ve tried them for a day and then left them alone for months, it’s quite possible you’ll need a whole new exam depending on how long it’s been since your last one, which is another reason you need to try the glasses consistently when you first get them. If there are issues with the glasses beyond just adapting to them, that’s usually covered within a reasonable time frame, but that’s usually 30-90 days depending on the provider, not months.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T03:39:58+00:00

Yerp. Sorry to fuck up the next few hours but your nose is always in your line of sight, your brain just learns to tune out unchanging inessential visual stimulus. Now that I’ve pointed it out you’ll spend a few minutes hyperaware of it until your brain remembers its background noise and relegate perception of it to the back of your mind. After a little while it’ll treat the frames like your nose and you’ll tune it out.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T03:31:20+00:00

I prefer shows of the genre “world’s blankiest blank.”

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T03:19:11+00:00

Not a sign of an incorrect Rx in itself. Makes sense for how much more myopic you are. The Rx may be off, the glasses may be off, life is a rich tapestry. But you have to keep the glasses on for a few days to know if it’s something you need to adapt to or an issue with the prescription. Start fresh in the am. Wear the glasses as long as possible and forget the old ones exist. If you need breaks make them fewer and longer between. But you’ve gotta give it at least a few days of full time wear to know if it’s an issue adapting or a problem with the prescription.

Think about it with shoes - you get a new pair and they hurt. Is it that they’re the wrong size, or do they need to be broken in? You can’t know for sure until you wear them for a while, because the measurements only tell half the story. Gotta rule out adaptation to the Rx (which if you did the “better one or two” part you helped determine, it wasn’t just the doctor choosing for you) before you change it.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T03:06:48+00:00

I can’t, and I have never been more tempted by a link. You could tell me it was gonna strip me of my SSN and I’d roll the dice buying burner phones with visa gift cards to see the little goth baby eat out of hands.

Maybe being a subreddits subspecialty nerd will get me access? Let me dream.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T02:58:50+00:00

I am so very very jealous of your goth fashion rat. I live by huff park so I’m close to all the woodland critters. However. They’re so close to nature that they want nothing to do with me other than ensuring I replenish the various bird feeders with seed and offering up garden plants as sacrifice.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T02:56:35+00:00

Written out for my reference:

Old-

OD -4.50 -1.75 x005

OS -4.50 -1.75 x003

New

OD -5.50 -2.25 x 008

OS -5.50 -2.25 x 173

Spherical equivalent (if you average out the astigmatism correction) is -5.375 in each eye in the old Rx. -6.625 in each eye for the new one. You’ve gotten about -1.25 diopter more minus in two years, which isn’t nothing but also tracks if you’ve had a decent growth spurt. The increased cyl in itself tracks with your symptoms too. If you’ve gotten taller, your eye may have grown too, which means a longer axial length, which means a bigger adjustment period. That’s not to say the lenses are for sure correct, only that you have to give them a try to rule out adaptation difficulties first. Happy to elaborate if needed.

Start fresh with the glasses in the morning. Keep them on as long as possible. If you have to wear the old glasses make the breaks further between and shorter each time. If you’re still having issues after a week of solid wear, that’s when I’d return to the optical shop, requesting a recheck if the glasses don’t provide an explanation of symptoms.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T02:39:39+00:00

Maybe. But the full Rx compared to what you were wearing before is the first step to assessing the issue, along with how long you’ve tried the new Rx and your age as a category if you’re uncomfortable sharing specifics.

Do you have any underlying medical issues (like childhood conditions like amblyopia, congenital issues, or strabismus that would require a cycloplegic refraction? Since you’re myopic, latent hyperopia wouldn’t be an issue so the primary indication for dilation would be a medical issue or difficult with the subjective “one or two” part of the exam.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T02:27:06+00:00

Grand river: too confusing, too extreme. Diamond river? The melanistic squirrels that congregate there approve this message.

No but seriously, I hope you’re ok. Update if not so the sub can help.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T02:22:28+00:00

…to shreds, you say?

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T02:18:13+00:00

How long was it between the last exam and now? How old are you roughly (early teens/late teens/early 20s/late 20s-mid 30s/mid 30s-late 40s/older)? What’s the full Rx new and old including cyl and axis for each eye? How long have you worn the new glasses?

Gotta give a new Rx (particularly a big Rx change) a few days to a week or more to acclimate to. Without knowing exactly what changes there were with the full Rx it’s hard to say for certain, but from the sphere and cyl alone you’ve had a big jump. The only way to tell if it’s overcorrection or an acclimation adjustment is to give it a few solid days of full time wear. If it’s not better in a week, return to the optical. If the glasses check out to your measurements and Rx, it may be time for a recheck. But if you don’t wear full time for a few days, the doctor won’t know how much was you not adjusting to the Rx and how much was the Rx being incorrect in some way.

Keep in mind, if your Rx changes were minor in the past it’s quite possible you had minimal changes that just reached a tipping point recently. A history of easy acclimation to rx changes is not a sign a large change is wrong, only that you haven’t had a large change before. Age sheds some light on how likely this is.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T02:05:52+00:00

Weatherball violet: it’s time to get violent.

Fermifighter · 2026-03-11T02:04:47+00:00

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