Just been told dd needs glasses. AIBU to be quite gutted, and also a bit confused actually?

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dd is 7.5

Just been for her first eye test with absolutely no expectations of finding any problems.

I was gobsmacked to see her struggling to read the 3rd or 4th line of the chart with her right eye.

With her left, she read all the way to the bottom, no problems.

Optician has recommended that she wear glasses full time for 6 months in the hope that her right eye improves.

She is devastated about this, and therefore so am I, IYSWIM?

Also, am confused as optician said that if there is no improvement after 6 months then we can give up and not bother with the glasses.

Huh? Anyone been through similar and can explain?

When it comes to choosing them, Vision Express have this lovely photo machine so you can try them on and look at yourself wearing them, v. handy if like me your eyesight is so awful that without specs you can only see six inches in front of your nose, so a mirror's no use when the display frames have no glass in them!

random Specsavers have one of those too! I'm with Vision express and find they have a lovely range and very comperitively priced. I love the computer

My cousin had that kind of thing. She had to wear a patch for maybe two hours a day or so. Maybe your daughter's case is worse, but you could see about that kind of thing?

My DD who is 6 wears them. In their Year 1 class last year there were lots of children with them. So much so that one of her classmates was in tears at the optician when told he had perfect eyesight and wouldn't need them. DD's eye problems were picked up at a screening test at school. I felt guilty as I'd never considered having her eyes tested despite being a speccy four eyes myself.

Yes the computer is great, the big ( D&A) had one. The lady saved the pictures so DD could sit down with her glasses on and flick back and forth between the ones she'd tried.
A huge improvement on trying to work out what you look like from 3 inches from the mirror and loosing track of your own glasses and the ones your trying on in the a fuzzy haze.

Just a wee update - DS1 is short sighted and he's thrilled with his new glasses!

And i checked my prescription and my cylinder for my astigmatism is -2.00 for one eye and -3.00 for the other - the -3.00 is why i sometimes have to wait weeks for new glasses.

There are really cute specs now, when I was 7 they were all hideous. I used to hide mine on the way to school, and get them on the way home.
I was sad when my ds1 needed glasses at age 8. However, we did get him contacts when he was a teenager. Hope your daughter finds some specs that she likes, and will wear with confidence.