I need new glasses...or did I? (March 2010)

The idea of undergoing LASIK eye surgery was now dormant in some dark part of my brain. There was so much dust covering it that even if I looked for that idea I wouldn’t find it. I have been wearing the same prescription glasses for roughly 3 years now and I felt like I should go for a checkup, after all, I didn’t know if things were actually slightly blurry or if my mind was playing tricks on me telling me to just get a new pair.

I head to Optical Center for a routine checkup and I find out that indeed my myopia has changed although my astigmatism was the same. My new prescription was the following:

Right Eye: Sphere -5.50, Astigmatism -2.50, Axis 180

Left Eye: Sphere: -6.75, Astigmatism -1.00, Axis 175

I pick a new pair of glasses that look more trendy that my previous ones, selected the most compression possible for the new lenses and wait a week to receive them.

A week passes by and I finally received my new pair. I wear them the next morning in order to better acclimatize to them but things seemed a little too sharp. Not only that everything felt funny due to the change in shape of the lens (they were smaller that my previous pair). I visit the store again to see if this was just my imagination or if there was something indeed wrong with the prescription. The optometrist told me that because I had severe myopia and astigmatism that getting used to new glasses will take some time and that I should give it a week. I am not the most patient person but this was just something I had to get used to.

As the days pass by I notice that things were just getting worse. I could feel all the muscles and nerves in my head being tense, I would get constant headaches and after a long night’s sleep people still said I looked like I didn’t go to sleep. My body was giving me enough messages to tell me that perhaps the prescription was indeed overpowered. After a week passes by I give up hope, stash the glasses in some dark place in my cupboard and return to my old glasses. Things weren’t as clear but I was a lot happier and comfortable.