Today I picked up my shiny new glasses. I’ve been wearing them for about 2 hours and I’m having a little difficulty adjusting to the new prescription. I’m getting this weird bendy distortion at the sides, particularly on the left lens. Googling the problem reveals that either a) it’s normal and my eyes will adjust or b) my prescription has been made up wrong and I need to go back and get it fixed. I’m worried about it being the latter as the effect can be associated with wrongly corrected astigmatism – which I do have, but in the other eye.

Of course, it doesn’t help that I only got about four hours sleep last night. For some annoying reason, whenever I have to get up early I never manage to sleep well. Maybe that’s why it’s not going too well for me. I have to nip into town tomorrow anyway, so if things aren’t better in the morning, I’ll pop into the opticians and get them to double-check the lenses.

I also have a contact lens appointment on Friday, so I do hope the prescription itself isn’t wrong.

UPDATE September 9th: I visited the optician for a check over and he confirmed that there was nothing wrong with my glasses. He did bend them to match the shape of my old ones better and the side distortion has been greatly reduced. However, it’s not perfect and my peripheral vision is still a bit skewiff, in particular I’m having difficulty typing and looking at my screen. I’ll need to discuss it at my contact lens appointment if things don’t improve.