[Closed] How long till first pair of spectacles feel right?

Yep - the brain is amazing at adapting. It will probably take a few days, up to a week or more depending on how often you wear them.

I recently changed to vari-focals (meant to be just for office work) and the first few days were horrible, but now I can't live without them (my old standard lens glasses are stuck at the back of the drawer).

Never have for me. Had a driving prescription some years back that to be honest I probably need all the time, but I'm too vain to wear them - and I get 'buzzy nose' 🙁

In terms of vision you get used to them in a week or so of use - it's like life is in HD wearing them!

They stay in the car where they are needed. On the plus side it means I always buy the very cheapest frames I can (maybe why they buzz!)

Sounds like I used to be.

I had glasses for astigmatism and very slight longsightedness for a couple of decades that only really got used when I was tired.

Depending how much you use them will probably determine how long it takes to feel comfortable and the disorientation to pass.

More recently (last 7-8 years and especially the last 2-3) my eyesight got worse and I now pretty much need glasses to read unless I get an arm extension.... as such I'm wearing the glasses much more and even forget to take them off when I'm not reading.

The glasses are stronger than the ones I felt uncomfortable in and still for reading but I just got used to them quite quickly... though I'm not sure that's a good thing.  I find myself watching TV with them for example and then take them off and suddenly the TV is clear... or I end up trying to use them like bifocals (down my nose) to for example read a train ticket or my mobile.  10 years ago it would have made me giddy...

I guess the other thing is TV's got a lot bigger and mobiles didn't exist when I started wearing glasses but I only really *needed* them the last couple of years....

My guess is you will get used to them slowly and that's a good thing... but you won't become dependent ... (at least for years)

they will become your best glasses just as you buy a new pair.

I make sure to take them off when walking - wearing them all the time messes up my depth perception when I'm not wearing them, not ideal when one of my favourite hobbies is trail running... Otherwise, over 2-3 short years they have sadly gone from feeling weird to completely normal 🙁

I suffered the distortion/giddyness with my last pair of glasses. Worn them for nearly 30 years, very short sightned (can't even focus up close) and a stigamatism in one eye. Problem I had was unless looking directly ahead I was getting the motion type sickness. Turned out to be them presumably for cost reasons providing me with the thinner glass I requested/paid for but it was thinned only in the middle then got a lot thicker as it went out. My previous glasses were far more uniform thickness across the whole glass. Yes they got thicker at the edges but nothing like the same. After quite a few months of back and forth I got some which are OK.

Give it a week or so then go back if not happy

Yeah a week is plenty.

Currently trying Vision Express' fatigue lenses which put a slight correction on the bottom of the lens. A gentle way into varifocals. Like all glasses though, I struggle with buzzy nose too. Feel like I have to lift them off my nose all the time.

My current pair have got some sort of blue light filter...can't really tell the difference as when I take them off, everything is blurry.

One instance where I do notice the difference is on rainy overcast days when driving, if I take them off it looks a bit colder (blue-ish, surprisingly) and greyer 🙂

I didn't notice an immediate difference, but now when I think about it, I have very few nights I cannot drop off to sleep, whereas it used to be quite common that I'd still be awake after 3 hours in bed resting/reading.

>Currently trying Vision Express’ fatigue lenses which put a slight correction on the bottom of the lens. A gentle way into varifocals. Like all glasses though, I struggle with buzzy nose too. Feel like I have to lift them off my nose all the time.

I probably need to try these, the last couple of years I've lost the ability to adapt to depth of vision and now have to take my glasses off to read etc...

My first pair appeared about a year ago, purely reading and close work. At first I was fine only if not moving, just sat still reading, any movement was very nausea inducing. Quivkly settled down after about 2 weeks.

slimjim,

My advice is don't worry or try and rush getting them to feel normal...

Just use them when you feel you need to... and if/when possible don't use a small screen.

In my mid 40's I hardly used my glasses except for laptops ...but my personal feeling is that once I started using them more I quickly became dependent and my vision got worse quickly.  I think a large part of this is just getting lazy (both mentally and the physical focussing) and my perception is this is especially for astigmatism.

Now I struggle with so many things I didn't only 3-4 years ago... like working on the bike without glasses.

I took my glasses off when I started typing this... (on a fairly big screen 18" away) and it was fuzzy but a few minutes later and its not that significantly different to with the glasses.

I would check that the prescription is correct, have your test re-done and the glasses actually right, before keeping persisting or giving up with them and ending up not using them.
I've had a set of glasses that weren't right and made the world feel distorted.

I also had it when I was trying contacts some just didn't work, although the prescription was "correct" the lenses for some reason didn't work and it felt really weird.

Have a read if you can the Which magazine article about opticians and optometrists and the mistakes that can happen.

they will become your best glasses just as you buy a new pair.

This seems to be the case for me. In all seriousness, can take months or years for me. I can see fine but it just feels a bit 'off' and stuff seems to pop out of the world a bit much at first.

Settles down after a month or so. Most noticeable outside. My prescription isn't even that strong, but happens every time I get a new set.

 

<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eeeeee;">They certainly dont feel right for using whilst walking around etc.</span>

They wont be intermediates are designed for a very specific focal length, inside oroutside of that they will just be wrong.

<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eeeeee;">I also went for the ‘blue light reduction’ lens up-sell.</span>

Dont do this again its been proved to be a white elephant sales pitch.

In general some people can take to a new prescription firly quickly, some can take up to a week......if after thid time you're still having problems return to the opticians and first get the glasses checked against your prescription, if they are correct then ask for a recheck...........some opticians may try to 'fob you off' but if you walk into pretty much any they will have machines that can check the prescription in glasses so if you want independabtly check the glasses do this (some might charge others wont).

Hope this helps

Yes, good advice. Thanks everyone.

Indeed, they have started to feel better already today - to the point where im finding myself habitually reaching for them for screen work.

Not perfect yet, but feeling less weird.