New Glasses - Should I feel cross eyed?

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I have a pair of glasses for the first time which I am trying to get used to. However when I wear them I feel as if my eyes are slightly crossing. When I take them off I also feel that they are them uncrossing and it takes me 30 seconds or so to adjust,

Is this to be expected or are they wrong?

They are distance glasses if that makes a difference and I am long sighted. Although I am long sighted I still need some help for middle distance, my job involves me inspecting detail in the middle distance.

Are they a strong prescription?
How long have you had them?
Do you wear them all the time?

A big change in prescription can take time to get used to, and yes it can feel like your eyes are being pulled, or crossed. But generally only lasts a very short time - a few days at most depending on how much you wear them.

Thanks, that's good to know.

They aren't that strong. My first ever pair of glasses that I am trying to wear for most of the time.

I've only been wearing them for a day so will persist, thank you.

I get this a bit when I get new driving glasses so I make sure I walk about in them a lot and then drive somewhere familiar and local before launching myself into a big drive. But it is very mild and doesn't last long, less than a day usually. If it does last or is making it impossible to do the task at hand safely then you need to go back to the opticians, IMO.

I was a bit like that when I started wearing my glasses. I was longsighted in one eye and normal in the other and when I took off my glasses I would feel a bit woozy when I take them off. I think it was just my eyes balancing out.

Persevere for a few days but if they still feel uncomfortable, take them back to optician. I’ve had ones where the prescription was made up wrong, and another time the prescription was correct but my brain just could not cope with the strength of the astigmatism correction and I felt permanently seasick so they gave me new ones with a slightly lower prescription.

Don't hesitate to go back to the optician if it doesn't settle after a day or two.

Not sure where you got them from, but for getting your prescription worked out, don't go to somewhere like Spec savers or Vision express. They can make up glasses to a prescription someone else has worked out, but their opticians are of much more variable quality.

I'm short sighted so it might be different but I've never felt cross eyed. I do feel like my eyes have to work harder for a couple of hours till I get used to them. I often find myself getting distracted by the detail I can see!

I've recently had an eye test and some glasses and the prescription was wrong. I took them back and got a refund. One lense was definitely blurry, the other was fine.
The eye test was rushed I noticed at the time, the optician more interested in rushing me through [it was dinner time] and talking about herself.