My first ever pair of prescription glasses

[nobody]

Everything is more blurry when I wear them and it's giving me a headache.
Do they take getting adjusted to or did they make the lenses wrong?
There's no way I'll be able to drive with these on.

I am typing this post as I wear them and I can't tell what I'm typing until i take the glasses off.

Any advice?

Are you sure you know what they're for? I ask because I have fantastic close up vision but my distance vision is progressively getting worse. Wearing my glasses for close up things gives me a headache and makes things blurry so I take them off unless I need them for distance (like driving or watching tv from across the room)

Some people are the opposite and need them for close but it wrecks distance,

then some people need bifocals because they need different strengths for close and distance.

 

[Runwildboys]

Are you sure you know what they're for? I ask because I have fantastic close up vision but my distance vision is progressively getting worse. Wearing my glasses for close up things gives me a headache and makes things blurry so I take them off unless I need them for distance (like driving or watching tv from across the room)

Some people are the opposite and need them for close but it wrecks distance,

then some people need bifocals because they need different strengths for close and distance.

I don't know @Hardline very well, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he knows why he needs glasses.

 

[nobody]

I don't know @Hardline very well, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he knows why he needs glasses.

lol, I'm sure he does, but some doctors are not good at explaining things about what the glasses are for. Mine's fantastic. She's awesome. She also explained why I wasn't really a good candidate for contacts because of the huge difference between my distance and near vision...so she saved me lots of money.

 

[Jammer]

Everything is more blurry when I wear them and it's giving me a headache.
Do they take getting adjusted to or did they make the lenses wrong?
There's no way I'll be able to drive with these on.

I am typing this post as I wear them and I can't tell what I'm typing until i take the glasses off.

Any advice?

I wear progressive lenses. I've had the prescription wrong on my glasses a couple of times, and once the clinic didn't center my glasses correctly to my eye which is important if you're wearing progressive lenses. Each time they corrected it and I was good to go.

 

[Cowpolk]

Your glasses should be comfortable with no headaches. I would go back to your optometrist.

My brother was given the wrong pair when he got his did about what he described

 

[lukin2006]

Everything is more blurry when I wear them and it's giving me a headache.
Do they take getting adjusted to or did they make the lenses wrong?
There's no way I'll be able to drive with these on.

I am typing this post as I wear them and I can't tell what I'm typing until i take the glasses off.

Any advice?

Every time I get new prescription glasses it takes time for me to get used to them…and if they are blurry you should call the place you got them at, just to be sure. Good luck.

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

lol, I'm sure he does, but some doctors are not good at explaining things about what the glasses are for. Mine's fantastic. She's awesome. She also explained why I wasn't really a good candidate for contacts because of the huge difference between my distance and near vision...so she saved me lots of money.

Optometrist don't like selling people contacts. Because some just keep that prescription and start ordering contacts on line. Not having to go back to that optometrist for several years. They lose money when people do that. They want you in glasses, so you can break them and keep coming back.

 

[nobody]

Optometrist don't like selling people contacts. Because some just keep that prescription and start ordering contacts on line. Not having to go back to that optometrist for several years. They lose money when people do that. They want you in glasses, so you can break them and keep coming back.

I think my Optometrist is different. She happily sells my wife contacts and her rates are comparable to pretty much everyone else.

 

[shabazz]

It will be an adjustment for doing many activities such as……most everything

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

Everything is more blurry when I wear them and it's giving me a headache.
Do they take getting adjusted to or did they make the lenses wrong?
There's no way I'll be able to drive with these on.

I am typing this post as I wear them and I can't tell what I'm typing until i take the glasses off.

Any advice?

So how did things turn out? Was it the wrong prescription? Or did you just have to adjust?

 

[john van brocklin]

Everything is more blurry when I wear them and it's giving me a headache.
Do they take getting adjusted to or did they make the lenses wrong?
There's no way I'll be able to drive with these on.

I am typing this post as I wear them and I can't tell what I'm typing until i take the glasses off.

Any advice?

Welcome to old age my friend !

 

[Cowboys_22]

Welcome to 4-eye world.

One word of advice, always remember where you place your glasses because sometimes you need your glasses to find your glasses…

 

[Sammy]

I wear progressive lenses. I've had the prescription wrong on my glasses a couple of times, and once the clinic didn't center my glasses correctly to my eye which is important if you're wearing progressive lenses. Each time they corrected it and I was good to go.

If OP got progressive lenses, they are difficult for many of us to adjust to. I can see distances well with mine, but I never did get used to the narrow range of vision for reading. I could only see a couple inches of type before I'd have to move my head and adjust to see the next couple of inches. I don't have the patience to adjust to that, so I just went back to reading glasses.