please help, ds can't see in his new glasses!!

[Amanda01]

6 months ago i noticed my son looked a bit cross eyed in some photos. It eventually led to him having an apt with the hospital optician this morning & they said he is extremely long sighted, and will need glasses ... and has developed a squint in his right eye, and he can't see much at all out of it.

We went to vision express, and managed to get his new glasses today. He's been ok wearing them, but i asked if they were going to do a test to see if he could actually see in them & she said no. Fair enough. I thought i'd try when we got home ... from what i can tell, he can't read anything over a metre away!!!!! Pointing to things on his posters on the wall, he kept saying he needed to go a bit closer to see!!!! When we asked him if he could see ok with his new glasses, he said everything is fuzzy!!!!!!

I'm feeling really deflated. I was upset that he'd need them to start with, he's a really quiet little lad & now he's gonna be the quiet little lad in the glasses, y'know? But, if it helped him see better, great!! ... however, if we've spent this whole day trying to help him & he STILL CAN'T SEE ... aaargh, i'm gonna go crazy!!!!

What should i do? Call the hospital in the morning? Or the opticians? I'm exhausted, but if i'm making him wear them, i want to know he can see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xXx

Back to the opticians

Definately, back to opticians. Could ahve been a mistake with prescription?
I have no knowledge of this, but I'd go back.

would check with opticians but also bear in mind that if his prescription has changed then the new glasses will need getting used to, the brain needs to sort of re-train iyswim

hi. my friend who has a dd with a squint gets her prescription from her hosp consultant, and has the glasses made by her independant optician..... usually all is fine, but once, they had been made up with completely the wrong prescription..the technician had messed up! it is worth taking the glasses back to be checked....

if you have no joy there, then you must phone the hosp and discuss it with them....your poor little lad!

for what its worth, a few of my friends kids wear glasses and there is no issue about them ever...

my dh makes glasses and if he knows they are for a child, he'll do everything he can to make them as aethetically pleasing as he can...ie go for the thinnest lenses, look at funky character frames etc...

you may find that you'll get a better, more personal service from a local independant optician....you'll build a relationship with them, and be able to negotiate these sorts of things with them, not to mention see them regularly when your lad sits on his glasses, steps on his glasses, looses his glasses, re shapes his glasses...........!

hth.

If they are saying his eyesight is pretty awful, it could be that it will take a while for his eyes to adjust and his brain to get used to seeing through them. My dd3 is very shortsighted (-9 prescription), instead of giving her full strength glasses straight away, they built the strength up slowly from about a -4, up to about -7.5 at the moment. Each time her glasses get stronger it takes about 2 weeks for her to get totally used to wearing them again. I would still whip down to the opticians though, just to be on the safe side. If they are very strong glasses it might help to slowly build up the time he wears them, or pick the time he wears them to be the times he really needs them iyswim.

DS, DH and I are all short-sighted. I had problems with the thick edges of the lenses making everything fuzzy as I moved my eyes. DS had to have a different frame so the lens area was smaller (with less curvature, I think). I agree with you Califrau - I get headaches when the prescription changes now; and life was normally fuzzy to me before I had my first glasses - I thought tennis was a game of very quick reactions as the ball suddenly appeared!!
DS puts new glasses on and says "Wow" - Amanda01 your DS shouldn't be struggling to see with his glasses;but it is difficult to adjust to big changes.
I've once had the lenses put in place for the opposite eye - simple error but I couldn't see anything - the optician had written the prescription wrongly.
Suggest you go back to the optician's and ask for the manager to help solve the problem - we've always had excellent help from our local Vision Express - DS (AS)goes for a 1/2 hour 'test drive' with his glasses before he'll agree they are ok.