Should I be able to see clearly though both lenses?

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I've got new glasses and am struggling with them. The right lense is fine, if I close the left I can see clearly with just that eye.
But, if I close the right eye the left stays blurred.
Should I be able to see clearly through the left only or should they work in combination so it's fine if one is blurred when alone?
Sorry if this is a stupid question but I've broken my old ones so can't check and I've never thought about it before.

You should be able to see clearly through both (and yes, I had to check )

@MedusasBadHairDay

You should be able to see clearly through both (and yes, I had to check )

snap! I can see clearly through each lens individually.

Yep, I agree (having done a quick test myself!) - you should be able to see clearly out of both eyes. Did your optician not check your vision with your new glasses?

depends on your visual acuity, some people do have differences in the quality of vision between eyes.

A lazy eye (amblyopia) cannot be corrected to the same standard.

However specific eye conditions apart, you would generally expect both eyes to correct to a similar level giving the same sort of focus and definition.

It depends on your prescription. Your eyes work together so if you had perfect vision in one eye at a time, your vision would be blurred when they were both open.

Well mine doesn't. But I have the laziest of left eyes and no corrective lense in that side.

You say new glasses. First pair or just the latest ones? Either way you need to ring the optician and go back to them.

Latest pair.
I do have an astigmatism in the left eye. It is much poorer than the right.

That’ll be why then. How’s your sight with both eyes open?

Feels a bit strained. Maybe I just need some time to adapt

Probably. Was it a big change in prescription?

They said that there was very little change.

To the first number? Or the middle one?

I'm an optometrist. It sounds as if something is wrong with the glasses - I'd take them back. It's very easy to check them.

go back.

prescription might be wrong

I think there is a problem with the lens, I recently noticed that I was seeing fuzzy out of one eye with my glasses on, took myself to the optician and was told I had a big deterioration in my prescription ( being investigated) So cause of the change in my eye the lens was no longer correct for me, so I think yours isn’t right either sometimes lenses do get made up wrongly I would go back and get it checked. I am familiar with having to get used to a new lens, when I got varifocals it took ages to get used to them but my vision wasn’t blurred.

Thank you all. I will give it a day or so to be sure and then pop back.

I have fairly severe astigmatism in both my eyes (as well as standard myopia) and both my eyes are individually clear with my glasses on.

Go back and tell the optician. I had an issue a while back, I couldn't see properly out of either lens. Initially I was fobbed off but when I returned, it turned out the lenses tapered the wrong way.

Check you haven't been given one lense for long sight and one for short ..the brain then balances them up
I have this but in my contact lenses ..so maybe it's a spectacles thing too ?