If they're doing the prescription process properly, there shouldn't be any blurring with glasses on. I've got normal myopia and astigmatism and probably other stuff besides. They have to jump through all kinds of hoops to test my eyes properly, because I'm legally blind without glasses. I figure on an eye exam that actually works taking 2 hours, and I can't drive myself after because they'll dialate my eyes. Very hard to function normally when even a day with a 1000 foot ceiling of heavy stratus clouds is a bright day.
If I attempt to use spherical lenses of something vaguely resembling the right level of correction, everything is blurry and out of focus. Even if the lenses are strong enough, they've got the wrong shape, so nothing looks right.
The problem you're describing could be any number of eye problems. If you're going to someplace like Lenscrafter's for glasses, they're probably not giving you an adaquate eye exam.
I've been going to an eye doctor, one who's been checking the eyes of my whole family, grandparents included, for ages. Like I mentioned above, though, I've gone back several times after eye exams to complain about the glasses and I've basically been told that they did the process right and it's just eyestrain, or it'll pass when my eyes adjust, or whatever. It never does, though, so tomorrow I'm going to a new doctor. (Here's hoping...)
I had problems similar to what you describe when I was fairly young. My family's eye doctor had never dealt with somone who was so young and whose sight was going so far south so quickly. At age 7 I could still walk around without glasses. By age 12 I was legally blind without them and had a window of around 12" in front of my nose where I could see clearly without glasses. I'm 29 now and basically no longer have any point where I can see an entire object clearly without glasses.
A visit to an opthamalogist at the local teaching hospital gave me a better prescription, and my eye doctor much better tools for getting me a good prescription. I had to learn to put up with getting my eyes dilated every time (even tho I hate the way it feels), and be very careful in my distinctions between blurry and not blurry during parts of the eye exam. They had to learn some new things too, tho I'm less clear on what changed for my doctors.
It may take a bit of arguing, but they *can* do better for you.
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Date: 2007-01-16 05:17 pm (UTC)If I attempt to use spherical lenses of something vaguely resembling the right level of correction, everything is blurry and out of focus. Even if the lenses are strong enough, they've got the wrong shape, so nothing looks right.
The problem you're describing could be any number of eye problems. If you're going to someplace like Lenscrafter's for glasses, they're probably not giving you an adaquate eye exam.
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Date: 2007-01-17 10:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-17 11:51 pm (UTC)A visit to an opthamalogist at the local teaching hospital gave me a better prescription, and my eye doctor much better tools for getting me a good prescription. I had to learn to put up with getting my eyes dilated every time (even tho I hate the way it feels), and be very careful in my distinctions between blurry and not blurry during parts of the eye exam. They had to learn some new things too, tho I'm less clear on what changed for my doctors.
It may take a bit of arguing, but they *can* do better for you.