Hello, I am new to this group. I have a problem with my new glasses, and someone recommended that I ask my questions here. The problem is, as I mentioned, with my new reading glasses and with the unidentified source of the blur they give me. The prescription is -6.5 spherical for both eyes, and -1.0 cylinder for left and -.25 cylinder for the right eye. It is exactly one diopter less than what I would normally need for 20/20 vision, or so my optometrist told me. I knew that through these glasses distant objects would look somewhat foggy because the spherical was reduced, but since the glasses have full correction for astigmatism, I assumed I would not have any problems associated with the astigmatic blur and that I would have no problem seeing things in the near distance, i.e. for reading. However, that is not the case. The glasses give me a peculiar blur at any distance, resembling astigmatism. And it is extremely irritating, far more so than the blur I have when I don't even have any lense correction. I visited the optometrist at whose office I got the glasses, and he told me the blur was to be expected since only full correction would prevent it. This puzzled me. I don't understand why reducing spherical would influence the cylinder, but I didn't get a satisfying answer from him. I also noticed that when the glasses slide down my nose, this blur goes away, but not by much. The glasses are of no use to me. Tomorrow I will go see the optometrist again. But I don't know what to tell him. Something is wrong with these glasses. He had told me it could not be the prescription. So what could it be? The lenses? The angle? Could I have another unidentified condition? Thank you. ~Ally