Special glasses for night driving?

[FlamingoBluey]

Does anyone use these and do they help?
I had laser eye surgery a few years ago and, while it's been amazing in so many ways, I get 'haloing' when I drive at night. It's worse if it's raining.
I'd love to find some special glasses that reduce the haloing and make night driving easier.
Thank you! 👓

@FlamingoBluey apologies I don't know how to do links from my phone, but I think what I had was Zeiss Drive Safe lenses.

They aren't yellow - they look like normal
clear glasses. But depending on the light they have a slight blue tint to them.

You can't be "slightly short sighted but wear glasses all the time", you can't be "only" short sighted and wear varifocals. I don't have halos,I am blinded by car headlights,I paid extra for night lenses,antiglare coatings,and special yellow glasses and they don't make a hapeth of difference to me.

@MissCreeAnt I only just found out about astigmatism causing problems with night driving.

I've always struggled due to the lines of light shooting out of each headlight but DH brushed me off, I think he thought I was trying to get of driving.

It's really hard for motorway driving at night so I try to avoid that now.

Just to update - I had an eye check and I have a prescription for a slight myopia (-0.25 -0.50). Optician thinks these glasses might help with the night driving. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

I bought some of the yellow tinted glasses to help with headlight glare. I wear them over the top of my regular glasses. They may make a slight difference but the ultra bright headlights are still a huge pain and some nights, when oncoming traffic is heavy, I have a real headache when I get home.

I had later surgery over 15 years & although my prescription has changed very slightly since I have had the same issue with a glare/halo driving on motorways in particular at night. I now wear a very weak prescription pair of glasses for night driving as the stronger eye was compensating for the weather eye. My optician prescribed my Glasses to minimise this & to stop my astigmatism getting worse which returned a few years after the surgery. I got 2 pairs from specsavers for just over 100.00

Pardon...lazer surgery!

@FlamingoBluey

Just to update - I had an eye check and I have a prescription for a slight myopia (-0.25 -0.50). Optician thinks these glasses might help with the night driving. 🤞🏻🤞🏻

I'm in optics. They really won't help and your rx is tiny, the benefit of glasses for you is minimal. I hate to say it, but they're all trying to sell you stuff. I hate the clinical/retail crossover.

Felsham - the glasses are covered by my medical insurance (I'm not in UK) so they're not costing me anything extra.

[quote gogohm]@nannybeach

So I'm not the only one!!!

I cannot see in one eye in low light (other fortunately isn't affected) so I avoid driving without streetlights unless I really have to. The optician told me it was rod deficiency and never met anyone else with it [/quote]
I have it as well. I’m -9.50 with astigmatism in both eyes and have lattice degeneration and white without pressure. My eyes are dreadful! It’s very frustrating.

Ideally you would see an optician who has a machine that can measure the aberrations in your eyes - effectively measuring how prone to glare they are. These machines aren’t very common yet though. Glasses can then be made up to correct these aberrations, as well as any short sightedness etc that you might have.
I think the glasses you are getting will help a little bit won’t sort out the glare.
Even if you can’t get the aberrations measured, many glasses lens manufacturers do special driving lenses with lens technology and coatings designed to optimise vision for driving. If the glasses you have ordered don’t help your best bet is to see a good independent optician who can advise.

what's that machine called? I'd like to find out if my optician has it. they've never mentioned it. I am also short sighted (-8) plus astigmatism of -2, so I find glare a real problem when driving at night, when there are lots of other lights around, traffic with bright headlights coming towards me, etc., specially in the rain.

I'd really like to get glasses made up that would counteract some of the aberrations if that's the problem!

The optician I use is independent and well regarded locally, so I'd guess that they might have it already, but they've not said anything.

I have the most expensive lenses I think, with all the coatings and anti-glare and so on that I was offered, but if there's something better about the lens itself, I'd be all for it.

Or more specifically, what are the lenses called that use this technology? I wouldn't be surprised if the optician uses the machines to check eye health, but I have never been offered special lenses based on it, that I know of! What would the lenses be called? Are they super expensive? (mine are hundreds of pounds already, so I bet they are even more)

I guess they’d be referred to aberrometers. Different lens manufacturers have their own versions, Zeiss iProfiler is one and there’s one called DNEye by another manufacturer. I don’t think they’re very common though.

thanks, I'll look them up