This is probably a ridiculous thing to ask, but it's really bugging me, so I'd appreciate any advice.
I've always had lopsided eyes - slightly long-sighted in one and moderately short-sighted in the other. My vision isn't that terrible, in that I'm perfectly fine not wearing glasses all the time, but I got varifocals to save swapping between pairs when I do wear them.
I found them surprisingly easy to adapt to...but with the new glasses, the vision in my short-sighted eye is still not clear when I look into the distance. It's better, but definitely not sharp and perfect. Can this really be right? I went back to the optician; he re-tested me and said no, the prescription was correct, and that as long as my binocular vision was fine, it 'didn't matter' that one eye was not in focus.
He's right in that that I can see OK with both eyes together, but it still feels as though there's a bit of 'strain' there - as though the other eye (which is fine with the glasses) is doing all the work when I look into the distance. Which of course is exactly what it does when I don't wear the specs! Put it this way, with glasses on, one eye could easily read a car numberplate at driving-test distance while with the other one I'd be squinting and not quite sure.
So is the optician right? Have I got it all wrong in thinking that the vision in each eye should be corrected? Should I just accept it's as good as it can be?
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Vision not right with glasses....any opticians about?
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Ambridge · 07/04/2013 18:06
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