new glasses

whats up everybody, i'm new here, and i've been wearing contacts for 6
years, and just got my 1st pair of glasses, finaly.

my prescription for glasses is OD -4.75 C SPH OS -4.75 C -0.50 axis 178

i went to pearl vision and they recomended their polythin
lenses(polycarb), with anti glare. i received them today, and they
look kind of thick, it is very noticable the overlap on the lenses. I
noticed other people glasses today, and they dont seem as thick as
mine, and i have the polycard lens. Is this right??? is -4.75 that
strong that even with the poly lenses they look kind of thick????? the
lady told me it was because i have a strong prescription.
they also feel wierd and of course, blury on the sides, way different
from my contacts.
Does this seem right??? and what else can i do to make them thinner???
are they supposed to look kinda of thick at my prescription????


here is the link to myframes..
http://www.theyedoctor.com/products/...__product.aspx
thanks.

smaller frame, higher index will make them thinner. If you dont like
glasses, you can go back to contacts and wear glasses around the house

ms99 wrote:
> whats up everybody, i'm new here, and i've been wearing contacts for 6
> years, and just got my 1st pair of glasses, finaly.
>
> my prescription for glasses is OD -4.75 C SPH OS -4.75 C -0.50 axis 178
>
> i went to pearl vision and they recomended their polythin
> lenses(polycarb), with anti glare. i received them today, and they
> look kind of thick, it is very noticable the overlap on the lenses. I
> noticed other people glasses today, and they dont seem as thick as
> mine, and i have the polycard lens. Is this right??? is -4.75 that
> strong that even with the poly lenses they look kind of thick????? the
> lady told me it was because i have a strong prescription.
> they also feel wierd and of course, blury on the sides, way different
> from my contacts.
> Does this seem right??? and what else can i do to make them thinner???
> are they supposed to look kinda of thick at my prescription????
>
>
> here is the link to myframes..
> http://www.theyedoctor.com/products/...__product.aspx
> thanks.
>

-475 is stronger than the average person's prescription, so you'd expect
it to be thicker than most pairs of glasses you'd see on other people.

Also the bigger your frame the thicker your lenses will be. Your frame
is not very small... but I don't know how big your head is, maybe you
can't afford to go any smaller!!

If it's blurry on the sides (ie. when not looking through the centre of
the lens) that's a quality of polycarbonate.

To make them thinner you can take them back and ask if you can upgrade
to a 1.67 or 1.7 material. Or better still get them cut down into a
smaller frame.

Dom

Dom wrote:
> ms99 wrote:
> > whats up everybody, i'm new here, and i've been wearing contacts for 6
> > years, and just got my 1st pair of glasses, finaly.
> >
> > my prescription for glasses is OD -4.75 C SPH OS -4.75 C -0.50 axis 178
> >
> > i went to pearl vision and they recomended their polythin
> > lenses(polycarb), with anti glare. i received them today, and they
> > look kind of thick, it is very noticable the overlap on the lenses. I
> > noticed other people glasses today, and they dont seem as thick as
> > mine, and i have the polycard lens. Is this right??? is -4.75 that
> > strong that even with the poly lenses they look kind of thick????? the
> > lady told me it was because i have a strong prescription.
> > they also feel wierd and of course, blury on the sides, way different
> > from my contacts.
> > Does this seem right??? and what else can i do to make them thinner???
> > are they supposed to look kinda of thick at my prescription????
> >
> >
> > here is the link to myframes..
> > http://www.theyedoctor.com/products/...__product.aspx
> > thanks.
> >
>
> -475 is stronger than the average person's prescription, so you'd expect
> it to be thicker than most pairs of glasses you'd see on other people.
>
> Also the bigger your frame the thicker your lenses will be. Your frame
> is not very small... but I don't know how big your head is, maybe you
> can't afford to go any smaller!!
>
> If it's blurry on the sides (ie. when not looking through the centre of
> the lens) that's a quality of polycarbonate.
>
> To make them thinner you can take them back and ask if you can upgrade
> to a 1.67 or 1.7 material. Or better still get them cut down into a
> smaller frame.
>
> Dom

I do have a nice size head, so most glasses looked too small on me, and
I wanted the rimless kind, but my rx is too strong. their not that
thick, but i was suprized when i saw them, i knew they wouldnt be the
thinnest, but i was surprised. I'm not gonna wear them all the time,
but i dont wanna have the lens look that thick, becasue i will wear
them sometimes in public. I asked if their was anything else thinner
than micro thin (poly), she said it was the thinnest avaialable, no
mention of high index. so....i dont know.

do you think it is worth to upgrade to hi index, will i notice a big
difference????

ms99 wrote:
> do you think it is worth to upgrade to hi index, will i notice a big
> difference????
>

hard to say if it's worthwhile, but possibly not as the difference may
not be that great. cutting the lenses down into a smaller frame may make
a bigger (& cheaper) difference.

Dom

Helene via MedKB.com wrote:
> Dom, what would you call average?
>

In my practice the most popular contact lens powers we dispense are
between -250 and -400. It seems to me that many teenage & young adult
myopes seem to stabilise around -400 and only some progress beyond that.

Strictly speaking I am referring to the mode rather than the average.

As far as a statistical average (or modal) refraction for myopes is
concerned - I don't know. But if you took 100 myopes off the street at
random I'm sure the majority of them would be less than -475.

Dom

dont forget that -4 contacts are around a -5 in glasses depending on
the person. Contacts appear to behaive differently for each eye. You
could take two people with -5 glasses pescriptions, one may see fine
with -4 contacts(such as me for example) while another may need -4.25
or even -4.5 contacts!


You are right that most are less than -4.75, in fact most will be less
than -3. I know lots of myopes and id say near 2/3 of them are less
than -3, in fact a good potion of them have such low myopia they dont
regulary wear glasses. This lady was only -1 and seeing 20/40 UCVA so
she had absolutely no need for glasses unless she actually loves
wearing glasses(which she doesnt)

On 14 Feb 2006 14:54:22 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>dont forget that -4 contacts are around a -5 in glasses depending on
>the person. Contacts appear to behaive differently for each eye. You
>could take two people with -5 glasses pescriptions, one may see fine
>with -4 contacts(such as me for example) while another may need -4.25
>or even -4.5 contacts!
>
>
>You are right that most are less than -4.75, in fact most will be less
>than -3. I know lots of myopes and id say near 2/3 of them are less
>than -3, in fact a good potion of them have such low myopia they dont
>regulary wear glasses. This lady was only -1 and seeing 20/40 UCVA so
>she had absolutely no need for glasses unless she actually loves
>wearing glasses(which she doesnt)

I guess your sample is greater than the previous poster who tests
patients every day. Ho hum!

Ann