The thing to remember is that just because you’ve been to a doctor, even a specialist with a good reputation in the area of concern, doesn’t mean they’re good, curious, or driven to do anything except the one or two interventions they’re skilled at. I’ve been stunned by how uninformed, but arrogantly confident some of the providers in our community are.
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Have you heard of the Epley Maneuver? I have a friend who swears it cured his vertigo.
I’d certainly want a definitive diagnosis before I went through that. Epley can work wonders for BPPV, it can make other forms of vertigo worse.
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I was getting desperate before I tried Epley maneuver. It was just random strikes of dizziness with movement that I had for several months. I tried it and it was like a miracle–dizziness gone instantly.
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Yah, I don’t have BPPV, but thank you for mentioning it, in case a later reader does have BPPV
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Hey all:
I now have the computer and the distance glasses with prisms. Is it true it may take 2-4 weeks to become accustomed to them?
Is it true that one might get worse before they get better? I wore them about a week and got pretty dizzy, so just did not put them on. Then had company for over a month.
I am wondering, do I need to wear them every day & all day to adapt and do I need to find a time when I have 2-4 safe weeks to adjust?
If I were having that much trouble adjusting to glasses I would call the prescribing provider and tell them and make an appointment to have the glasses checked.
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Agree that @somemom needs to go back to the prescriber for adjustment. I felt “odd” (not sure if I would call it dizzy) for a couple of days and have been fine since then.
My glasses with prism are a progressive type. I’ve worn them for several years now.
When I had progressive lenses I felt most dizzy going down stairs since you tend to look through bottom of lenses.
Likewise. It took me a good 2-3 weeks to adjust. My eye doctor suggested that I wear them all the time during the adjustment period (no contacts, no other glasses). Not sure if the same is true for prisms though.
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My wife just had her eye exam redone. First they required a check to make sure they made the glasses to the prescription as they were made elsewhere (Costco - they were). Then the non Costco eye Dr did a free re exam (within 90 days) and one eye was very different and the other slightly). Not sure how such a drastic change happened.
She’s had the new ones a week and still isn’t sure but they are much better. Fortunately Costco remakes for free within 90 days.
I tend to think glasses don’t take a few weeks. I struggled, at first with progressives, because you have to know how to look through them. I actually had them removed from the first pair I had because I did struggle.
But glasses should not take weeks to adjust of any kind.
I call bs to that. Maybe a few hours or day. But weeks. No way.
You’re right, going down stairs takes getting use to, due to bifocals!
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Thanks for the feedback, given dizziness can come and go, normally based on other triggers, it’s hard to know if it was adjusting to glasses or just normal triggers.
I went down the rabbit holeo of Dr Google and some seemed to say it can take several weeks, so I would need to carefully choose my timing.
Decades ago I got my first pair of prescription driving sunglasses. I was really having trouble adjusting to them (new prescription), and my husband encouraged me to give it time. Finally I want back and discovered they had accidentally reversed my left and right eye prescriptions, which were not identical.
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I’ve had since prisms since I was 14. At first it was for double vision when reading, but later driving was also an issue. I have vertical and horizontal prisms as well as multifocals. My optomestrist gave me new computer glasses with a focus distance of about 14 feet. I LOVE them – I tend to sit far from my screen and the old prisms didn’t quite compensate for that distance. I wear them 95% of the time, including when I drive. (Had bilateral cateract surgery in my mid-40s, a lovely side effect of interferon treatment for my leukemia. We corrected for distance.) She told me they’d be a gamechanger, and she was correct.
Costco progressives suck.
Not all progressives are created equally. The Costco progressive is an old Essilor design that was a low tier product when it came out 20+ years ago.
Getting the right progressive is important. Unfortunately what differentiates them is intentionally opaque, so most prescribers and opticians are clueless about them.
There are hundreds of designs. Think of them like cars. You can buy anything from Mercedes S class to entry level Hyundai, but 30 model years worth. The Costco progressive is a 20+ year old Hyundai.
To make matters worse, the top progressives are like the top cars. If you ask me what’s the best car, and I answer without any qualifications Porsche 911, you’re going to be in trouble if you have three kids and need to haul wood. In that case what’s “best” is different, Suburban.
The top Zeiss lens is very different than the top Essilor lens or the top Seiko lens. The discounters want you to believe they’re all the same. They’re not.
It can take weeks (someone said it took them 2 months)according to what I read about prisms but you have to keep wearing them. You can’t be stopping–you’ll just be starting over every time. But first have them checked out to make sure they’re made correctly.
ehhhh - the eye exam was off in this case.
So that’s why they were redone.
The overpriced eye doctor (now private equity owned) - required the optician there check the lenses to ensure they were made to the right prescription b4 they would redo the exam.
They were.
Whether Costco sucks or not, for whatever reason, the eye exam wasn’t accurate - nor close to accurate.
How that happens - I don’t know. Time of day? Mis print? Bad eye doctor? Eyes shifted rapidly in the week since the eye exam?
When my wife first told me (the day of her exam) how drastically her vision changed from the previous year, I told her something wasn’t right. Can they change that rapidly?
In her case, apparently not.
But still I wonder how they could be so far off when it’s a lot of - A or B, 1 or 2. Now 2 or 3, etc.
But this wonder will probably never be solved.
Her new glasses are the right prescription but she has to adjust on the progressive part.
btw - we are only recent Costco converts. It was enough of - your glasses are $1200 but with insurance $500 when they do them for $100.
It was my first, over priced pair from the eye doctor that I had the progressives removed.
I’ve had no issues with my Costco glasses - but these are 2-3 pairs later. I finally saw the savings and couldn’t resist.
PS - the high priced eye doctor always says Costco sells gray market frames. Ehhh - i don’t know - they look the same - $300 or free with insurance. Gotta be a lotta mark up in the eye doctor world.