Got my new glasses and I dont like em! Cant get used to the cylindar!

I read somewhere that it takes several days for one to get used to the
cylindar component of glasses. My glasses came in today

left eye: -4.5 sphere, -.75 cylindar(140 axis) correctable to 20/30
right eye: -3.5 sphere, -1.5 cylindar(55 axis) correctable to 20/40


When I put them on, instantly I could tell something was wrong. The
right eye experienced blurring, doubling and smearing. Soon, my eyes
begin feeling strained and my pseudomyopia got half a diopter worse.
The left eye sees fairly much fine but not the right eye. I have never
had this much cylindar before. The optometrists went higher on the
sphere and lower on the cylindar. I also have irregular astigmastim and
high order aberrations so anything done will just be an approximation.
Going higher on the sphere does reduce the smearing and doubling but
causes a strange type of blur where letters look thick and bold. The
-1.5 cylindar causes strange disortions as well, especially when I tilt
my head, shapes change. I am much happier with my old glasses which
just ignored the cylindar. Yes I can see better on an eyechart with the
cylindar corrected but the quality of vision is poor(hint, hint for
those considering lasik!) Right now im seeing 20/80 or so with those
-3.25 glasses but the quality of vision is better and my eyes dont feel
strained vs. my new glasses which give me 20/30 in one eye, 20/40 in
the other(my bcva) Should I just suck up and give some time to get used
to the new glasses?

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>I read somewhere that it takes several days for one to get used to the
> cylindar component of glasses. My glasses came in today
>
> left eye: -4.5 sphere, -.75 cylindar(140 axis) correctable to 20/30
> right eye: -3.5 sphere, -1.5 cylindar(55 axis) correctable to 20/40
>
>
> When I put them on, instantly I could tell something was wrong. The
> right eye experienced blurring, doubling and smearing. Soon, my eyes
> begin feeling strained and my pseudomyopia got half a diopter worse.
> The left eye sees fairly much fine but not the right eye. I have never
> had this much cylindar before. The optometrists went higher on the
> sphere and lower on the cylindar. I also have irregular astigmastim and
> high order aberrations so anything done will just be an approximation.
> Going higher on the sphere does reduce the smearing and doubling but
> causes a strange type of blur where letters look thick and bold. The
> -1.5 cylindar causes strange disortions as well, especially when I tilt
> my head, shapes change. I am much happier with my old glasses which
> just ignored the cylindar. Yes I can see better on an eyechart with the
> cylindar corrected but the quality of vision is poor(hint, hint for
> those considering lasik!) Right now im seeing 20/80 or so with those
> -3.25 glasses but the quality of vision is better and my eyes dont feel
> strained vs. my new glasses which give me 20/30 in one eye, 20/40 in
> the other(my bcva) Should I just suck up and give some time to get used
> to the new glasses?
>

Go back to your OD and explain your problem. It should not take any time to
adapt to SV lenses.

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> When I put them on, instantly I could tell something was wrong. The
> right eye experienced blurring, doubling and smearing. Soon, my eyes
> begin feeling strained and my pseudomyopia got half a diopter worse.

Maybe you've messed up your eyes with all those eye exercises and you've
made them even harder to correct.

--
~RT

Your "irregular astigmatism" sounds like it was surgically induced by
your LASIK, and the astigmatism correction you have with your head
turned to one position can be different when you turn your head to
another position. RGP contacts would be a much better corrective
device. The newest wavefront spectacles might also eliminate your
"barrel distortion" but they are available in limited areas and only
from opticians who buy into a wavefront refraction system.

I disagree because I see fine with my -3.25 glasses. My eyes feel
relaxed and seeing isnt an effort. With my new glasses my eyes feel
strained, especially the right eye. Maybe it has to do with my
irregular astigmastim which shouldnt attempted to be corrected with
glasses, but instead just left alone? I have adapted fine to every
glasses except this one with the -1.5 cylindar. The left eye with -.75
is doing quite well.

RT wrote:
> In article
> <(E-Mail Removed) .com>,
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>> When I put them on, instantly I could tell something was
>> wrong. The right eye experienced blurring, doubling and
>> smearing. Soon, my eyes begin feeling strained and my
>> pseudomyopia got half a diopter worse.
>
> Maybe you've messed up your eyes with all those eye
> exercises and you've made them even harder to correct.

The same thought immediately came to mind. Then my
second thought was that maybe he should have purchased
a system instead of following the free one...

-Quick

The thing is I never had lasik nor any surguries of any type. Here are
my topographies I got last year. As you can see, the OD has an
irregular bowtie shape. The OS has a rather regular and slight
cylindar. Theres very little disortion in the OS, but the OD is much
worse and I correct a line less than the OS. It would cost me $1500+ to
give RGP(z-wave) contacts a try and no idea if ill be able to tolerate
them. I can get new glasses and consider the glasses I have a loss(can
save the frames) and see if they are better. I can either omit the
cylindar or reduce it.


http://img220.exs.cx/img220/4051/pic0082up.jpg

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> The thing is I never had lasik nor any surguries of any type.

Congratulations Ace! I think you have proven that NVI induces irregular
astigmatism. Perhaps this is your legacy in the ophthalmologic world.

--
~RT

Irregular astigmatism is present when the different meridians of
curvature of the cornea are not 180 degrees apart or the cornea takes
on multiple meridians of curvature. This condition may be thought of as
a bumpy surface topography. The visual result of irregular astigmatism
is distortion of vision that may not correct well even with glasses or
contact lenses.

I also learned more here:

http://www.lasikinistanbul.com/eng/astigmatism.htm


I dont see as blurry as the picture of the persons face but this gives
an idea.

"Astigmatism in which different parts of the same meridian have
different degrees of curvature."

I looked this up. Looking at my topographies, it makes sense. While the
meridian is 180 degrees or parrallel, it is not symetrical. The lower
half of the meridian has higher curvature than the upper half. My
glasses which DONT correct any astigmastim at all doesnt give
headaches. Attempting to correct my irregular astigmastim best as
possible gets my BCVA to 20/40(sometimes can see some of 20/30) but
with poor visual quality. Now I fully understand how people with bad
lasik results feel! I prefer my 20/80 without the astigmastim
correction over my 20/40 with!

false, my topographies that showed irregular astigmastim was before
NVI. When I did NVI, it reduced my myopia without changing anything
else!