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I hope this is the right place to post this thread. Well, here goes.
I just got new eyeglasses today. My old glasses were falling apart and were over 20 years old.
I asked the optometrist to write me a prescription for single-lens, single focus "distance" glasses. I specifically wanted to avoid the problems other people have reported with bifocals, progressive lenses and the like.
The optometrist agreed, but said objects withing three feet of me (or so) might appear as though they were in a fog.
That didn't happen. But something else weird (to me) did happen. Objects close to me appear "tilted." And I mean really tilted. The left side always appears higher than the right side when I'm wearing my new glasses. I take the glasses off and the table is flat again.
Has anyone experienced anything similar with new glasses?
A friend of mine who is a retired scientist says this has to do with the curvature of the lens, as well as the fact that my prescription is stronger for the new glasses than the old one was. She also says that I might just "adjust" to the new glasses in a week or two.
True?
I just got new eyeglasses today. My old glasses were falling apart and were over 20 years old.
I asked the optometrist to write me a prescription for single-lens, single focus "distance" glasses. I specifically wanted to avoid the problems other people have reported with bifocals, progressive lenses and the like.
The optometrist agreed, but said objects withing three feet of me (or so) might appear as though they were in a fog.
That didn't happen. But something else weird (to me) did happen. Objects close to me appear "tilted." And I mean really tilted. The left side always appears higher than the right side when I'm wearing my new glasses. I take the glasses off and the table is flat again.
Has anyone experienced anything similar with new glasses?
A friend of mine who is a retired scientist says this has to do with the curvature of the lens, as well as the fact that my prescription is stronger for the new glasses than the old one was. She also says that I might just "adjust" to the new glasses in a week or two.
True?