I am bumping this thread, because I just went back to the optometrist, then back to the optician.
Optometrist wrote a new prescription removing the astigmatism correction in the right eye, but leaving it in the left. ("I'd be robbing you of vision if I took that out!" he said.) He also insisted that the glasses were improperly made. They must be "faceformed," that is, wrap around the face in a curve. He said they should rock like a rocking chair when laid on the table.
Go back to the optician. She says she CANNOT "faceform" the glasses if I keep my current frames. The frames are made with "memory metal." They are designed to pop back to their original shape if bent. "I could bend them all day, and it would do no good," she says. She shows me different frames that can be bent. But they are made with nickel, which is fine AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT TOUCH MY SKIN! My current frames are titanium.
She is going to make me new lenses, then pop them into my current (titanium) frames. Should b e ready October 14.
I never dreamed that it would be this complicated getting new glasses.