revision

[jazzfish]

Literally a month later I finally (FINALLY) have my glasses and can stop wearing the (eight? ten?) year old pair I’ve been using.

Some observations, expanded from elseweb:

1. They’re doing the “the ground curves up slightly around me” thing that new glasses do when the prescription’s stronger than I’m used to. This will most likely go away by tomorrow.
   
2. They are not quite half an inch thick at the edges. This is why I used to get small frames all the time. On the bright side I have a bit of peripheral vision now.
   
3. My closeup vision is officially crap, things start getting blurry within eight inches of my face. Or I can take the glasses off, and be able to focus on things five inches and closer.
   
4. I have a headache that is distinctly different from the headache I’ve had for the last month. (Concentrated in my temples and behind my eyes; the one from the old glasses was more generalized.)

Honestly I am looking forward to re-adapting to being able to see things and returning to being a somewhat productive member of society.

Comments

[reedrover]

I am wildly sympathetic about the adjustment period and the thickness of glasses. I buy special refractive lenses that keep my glasses at half their expected weight. +4.5 is not a wimpy prescription.

[hwesta]

Congrats on new glasses! I hope the headache and visual distortions have fixed themselves by now.