After a lifetime of enjoying pin sharp vision, I’ve noticed over the past year that things have been getting a little fuzzy. So I took myself off to an opticians and got my eyes tested. Sure enough, I now need glasses for distance and reading. It’s only a mild prescription, I don’t need to wear them all the time or for driving, but the optician said I will notice it is much easier to focus on text and things with them, especially at night, and I will probably end up wanting to wear them more often than not.
Well it’s all a bit depressing isn’t it, getting old and decrepit. But I figured I just had to accept it and get on with it. So I collected my bloody expensive specs today, and they are awful!
I don’t mean in an appearance way (though I do hate the way I look in them!). I mean that everything looks weird. The sides of my field of vision swim. Everything looks wonky. Some things look unnervingly hyper-magnified, elsewhere is blurred. Walking around in them is disorientating. They make me feel dizzy.
The optician told me I just need to get used to them. She said to try them out, at home, for a week, and then talk to them about how I feel then.
Is this normal?! The wearing of glasses is completely new to me, I thought I’d just put them on and it would be like “Ah! Fuzziness gone!”. I don’t know if this is just how it is, and I need to suck it up, like so many other things about ageing, or if they are just crap glasses/wrong prescription.
Can anyone offer an insight (bad pun)?