Is there something wrong with me or my eyes? This is the second optician who's got my prescription wrong now.

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Background: been going to the same optician for years, all fine, eye tests, got glasses updated every so often, no problems.

Several months ago they updated my glasses but one eye was wrong, so they did it again and it was still wrong. I went back for several eye tests and they said they wouldn't change them again until I'd decided on my contact lenses. I couldn't get on with any of those either, so they ended up giving me trial lenses of several different prescriptions and told me to come back once I'd made up my mind. None of them were right, so I gave up and found a new optician.

Yesterday I collected my new glasses from the new optician, and they are wrong AGAIN! The lenses is wrong in one eye, and it's always the same eye that's the problem. They said I could come back if there was a problem but I've got a feeling we're just going to have a repeat of last time. I've got a massive neck ache now.

What is going on?! Why does this keep happening? I'm beginning to think there's something wrong with my eye and that maybe it's not the opticians' fault. But then again, I would've assumed that if there was some kind of eye condition that meant your glasses were never right whatever you did, surely opticians would know about it and would have told me.

What can I do? I'm already annoyed with having to pay again to see a new optician and it's all getting on top of me.

They did all the tests and things where they take a photo of the back of your eye, but they said it was all normal and there was nothing there out of the ordinary.

I am 50 and have a very strong prescription in one eye and this used to happen to me EVERY TIME OP.
I discovered that for me, basically when I had a test my eye muscles had to do loads of work and they got tired (really tired) so by the end of the test all the fine tuning stuff was pointless (you know the bits with 'this one or this one' as they turn or swap lenses?
I insist on a break of 30 minutes half way through now so my eyes can relax. Haven't had a problem since.

My neck is aching.

I just went in to the second optician and they said:

1. I've booked another eye test for next week, but I have to wait nearly a whole week as they're so booked up. In the meantime my neck is killing me, and it's giving me a sore throat. I'm apparently supposed to put up with this for a whole week.

1. He said that some people have one eye that's weaker than the other - not necessarily a stronger/weaker prescription, but actually just one eye that will never see as well as the other. I would've believed him if it had been this way my whole life, but it hasn't, this whole problem only started about six months ago. Are there any opticians here who could confirm or deny this, as I'm really not convinced? When I said that my left eye aches because it's working harder, he even suggested that he could weaken the prescription in my right eye to make up for it, so that both eyes would do the same amount of work.

I feel like I'm being treated like a science experiment. I don't want to be someone's learning curve. I want someone who's going to get it right the first time.

I have had a problem recently, with my specs. Mine are varifocals. I could read ok but the distance was quite blurry. Another test brought the same results, new pair of specs followed, same problem. Very expensive designer specs, useless.

I decided to try Glasses Direct online. Using the same prescription. The specs duly arrived 4 days later. Perfect, the best specs I have ever had. Cost £69. It may be an option you may wish to try. They have a great offer on this weekend 40% off. I went on YouTube to find out how to adjust the frames, easy peasy, they fit perfectly. Fraction of the cost.

Was your prescription the same from both opticians?

@MrsVioletBottom I don't understand why your Glasses Direct ones were so much better if they were the same prescription? Surely two pairs of glasses with the same prescription should give you the same vision?

Was your prescription the same from both opticians?

Changed a bit in the left eye, but kept the same in the right eye.

So when you say " one eye is wrong" do you mean that it is blurred and you think it should be better?
And how old are you? ( If you are 25 you are unlikely to have developed a problem with your eye itself in 6 months,if you are 70 it's much more likely unfortunately!)
If two different optoms have got the same result that suggests the prescription is ok.

So when you say " one eye is wrong" do you mean that it is blurred and you think it should be better?

Yes. But the two opticians didn't fine me the same result. The second one definitely changed it a bit, but they showed me the prescription and it was only a bit.

I'm in my mid 30s.

I'm an Optometrist. How frustrating for you.

It could be one of lots of things. When you go back in for the re-check make sure that your dispensing is done by a dispensing optician. I would take the pair of glasses that you had before the first incorrect pair. It may be that you are not getting on with a particular lens form, or refractive index of the plastic, or it may be that they've given you an aspheric previously.
They need to check the BVD, pantoscopic tilt of the frame and make sure they take pd monocularly. (This won't mean very much to you but it will to the dispensing optician.

During your re-check with the optometrist mention the numerous incorrect prescriptions ask them to check your lens, corneal endothelium and macula.

Do you wear contact lenses at the moment? If you do, leave them out the day before the test.

Certain medications can cause fluctuations in prescriptions as can pregnancy and undiagnosed diabetes.

I would take the pair of glasses that you had before the first incorrect pair.

I don't have any other glasses. I just have one frame that gets new glass put in it each time. I don't have any spare pairs of glasses.

They're already aware of the numerous incorrect prescriptions.

Been tested for diabetes and definitely don't have it.

It may be worth the new opticians calling up the old ones to see what the original lenses were. (They won't mind, we're used to calling each other up).

Hopefully it will all be sorted out at the new re-test. Please write down everything I've suggested though, or show them the post.

This whole thing is really upsetting me. I don't understand what's going on. This has never happened before and now suddenly nobody can get it right. They also gave me some trial contact lenses and I can't get in with them either.

I'm really confused why you keep saying your neck is aching? What does your neck have to do with your eyesight? Am I missing something?

All sorts of tensing of muscles happens when you can't focus properly. It's happened before and really not so unusual.

My eyes have been aching for the last couple of days. They were aching when I woke up this morning, before I'd even opened my eyes. I really don't know what to do.

Any other experiences?