I Can See!
Literally.
I have had new glasses for a week, and for a week I have strained to see and have been living with an ongoing headache. Now I know that new spectacles take some getting used to -- I've worn glasses since age three -- but I have never experienced anything like this. Definitely not fun, especially since I'm coming down to the wire on a book which requires a lot of research as well as writing. In other words, a lot of eye work.
Many people have offered suggestions, and I've tried them all. I've even tried looking through the glasses upside down on the off-chance that the lenses were inserted the wrong way up. They weren't. As bad as looking through them the normal way is, upside down was worse. Yesterday I made a return visit to the eyeglass place and related my difficulties. The associate changed the nose pieces to silicon -- so they wouldn't slip -- with the hope that that would do the trick. I was hopeful too, but to no avail.
Then, this evening, my husband suggested that magnification might be an issue. Being too close to my eyes -- or too far away -- the glasses could be incorrectly positioned. Since I couldn't get them any closer, I tried pulling them away, and VOILA! By setting the glasses a half inch farther away from my eyes, I could see! No more fuzzy far away and blurry close up. No more adjustment time needed as I went from looking at something mid-range to close up and then in the distance. I could drive without feeling like I was on drugs. My eyes relaxed and the pain in my head disappeared.
Of course, now I look a tad weird with my spectacles sitting halfway down my nose, but I can see, and tonight that's all I care about. I'll visit the eye glass people tomorrow.