The glasses woe is strong with this one

[valis2]

So I've been to the optometrist seven times as of last week, and had three different right lenses put in. They put the third one in last week, and I am still getting the ghosting/double image problem.

The earliest appointment the ophthalmologist had was for today. I went in, explained my issues, and the ophthal did some of the typical testing (same stuff the optometrist did). He also checked the shape of my cornea, because apparently there is a condition which causes a warped cornea which has the same symptoms. I'm "borderline" for the warped cornea syndrome in my right eye, but he doesn't think that's it; he thinks it's the lenses.

He then shipped me next door to the teeny eyeglasses store that shares the suite with him. A jolly fellow in his late fifties took my glasses and began to study them. He asked me several questions while his wife tried to track down my previous prescription for the lenses before the lenses of doom.

The jolly fellow--we'll call him Don--came back out of his teeny office and showed me an instrument that looked like a pocketwatch at first. He explained that it was a lens clock, and that it measured curvature. He showed the curvature on the left lens, which ranged from 4 to 4.25 or so. Then he showed me the right lens. It ranged from 4 to 2.75 back to 4.25. Which, apparently, can cause ghosting.

The lens clock turned out to be Don's father's instrument. He told me that the new machines are fantastic, but sometimes you have to go "old school" to figure things out.

So Don wrote a lovely note to my optometrist, and I went back and gave it to the people who work there. I told them that at this point I don't even care about the frames any longer. I'll buy new frames. Just get me new lenses.

Thankfully, the girl ignored me. She ended up making a pair of "loaner" glasses (!!!) on the spot, and took my glasses, telling me they would investigate this further. I explained that I leave next Tuesday and I need the glasses before that. She asked if she could mail them to me. I agreed.

They handed me the loaner glasses, and I couldn't tell if there was an issue because my eyes were still dilated. Now, though, that I look a little less stoned, I can see that even the loaner glasses have the ghosting. GRAH. GRAH. GRAH.

I really hope they figure this out and that they heed Don's advice. If they send me another pair of ghosting glasses, I will cry, because I will be in WI for 39 days without proper eyeglasses, and there are a couple weeks where I basically work 12 hour days, and I cannot do so without splitting headaches and awfulness with this pair of glasses.

I know this has only been a month, but I seriously can't take this much longer. The headaches are omnipresent. They're worse than the usual old-prescription headaches. I want this to end!

Oh, and this loaner set of glasses? has no anti-glare. So I have to drive to WI with them and it's going to be awful.

Okay, enough whining.

Comments

[valis2.livejournal.com]

That's definitely a possibility. However, after they put so much time, effort, and cost into the lenses, and because they've been so helpful so far, I'd like to give them one last chance. If they screw up the next set, I think I'll wander over to Don. *nodnod*

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry - they have FAILED so badly they don't deserve another chance after the trial glasses. Go to Don. You have been more than patient, put up with all this grief and expense of seeing the eye doc.
Hope your trip goes well.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

They have a satisfaction guaranteed promise--however, it is probably to the effect of "we'll keep making your glasses until we get them right," not "cash back."

Part of the issue is that I used my own frames, not theirs, and it's a line of frames that they don't carry. They seem to be very committed to getting them right, so I'm going to give them another try. ;)

Thanks!

[venivincere]

All my good luck are belong to you.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Aw! Thank you so much. *hugs*