Mar 8, 2011

Four Eyes

I can't read close up or small type far away.  Close up, it hurts my eyes to focus.  Far away, it's all blurry and no amount of scrunching my eyes will make it better.  Does that make me nearsighted?  Farsighted?

Last week, I went for an eye exam.  I recall the doctor talking me through his interpretation of these definitions, and we determined that my eyes focus beyond the back of my eye.  My prescription was + numbers, and, according to the intarweb, a + prescription means I'm farsighted.  Yet, the lady said "these are for distance" when I picked them up.  I've been all over Google tonight, and I don't think she's right.  Well, either she's not right or I have the wrong prescription. If I'm farsighted, why would she say "these are for distance?"  Also, the lenses are different for each eye, but I think they are too different (hence the splitting headache in my right eye).

For those who wear corrective lenses, here are my questions:

  1. How long did it take to get use to them?
  2. What does it mean if everything looks flat and I can see colors, particularly looking at black text on white?  Black doesn't look black, but a composite of reds, greens, and blues.  This happens with my dimestore magnifiers, but I thought it was b/c they were cheap glasses.  These new ones?  So not cheap.  I am not amused.
Posted by Joie de Vivre at Tuesday, March 08, 2011
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3 comments:

  1. TedMarch 9, 2011 at 9:17 AM

    + numbers would imply reading glasses I think, my contacts are -.75 and -2.5, so that I can correct my distance vison. I used to be able to focus to a couple inches - now its more like a couple feet. Like my dad - I'm sure to get "reading glasses" in the next decade or so. If you can't see either end of the spectrum - sounds like they should have been sneaking in some bi-focals. Isn't getting old fun?
    Getting used to glasses? If the world is suddenly in sharp focus - not very long at all. The rest of us optically challenged folk don't get the prism effect that I know of. and life is still in 3D last time I checked. You may have a bum pair of glasses - I'd return to my doc or find another....

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  2. Jennifer (ponderosa)March 9, 2011 at 10:02 AM

    My glasses are - numbers also.

    I have never had a headache from my glasses, only from contacts, and I think that's from the irritation in my eye, not from wacky vision. I'd go back to the eye doc and tell him to check again.

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  3. Joie de VivreMarch 10, 2011 at 8:41 PM

    Going back next week. Blurg!

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