I'm currently in the process of switching to contacts after 10 years of wearing glasses.  My glasses prescription has mostly been the same .  I got new contacts last Thursday and my prescription was increased.  The contacts themselves feel fine however I find it hard to focus.  When trying to read text from a distance it feels like it takes a second or two for it to come into focus. Is this normal?  Is it just my eyes adjusting to a new prescription?

I hope you werent that asshole last thursday.

A few things happen when you are new to contacts.


Contacts sit/float on your tears on your eye so some people are sensitive to the contact and cause more reflexive tearing. The reflexive tearing can cause the lens to move more.

It's been many years since my lens strength has changed, but I remember even a quarter of a diopter of change making things look pretty whack for a day or two.

You're dealing with a new form of lens and a different strength... you'll take a little adjustment.

Actually my appointment was last Thursday.  You don't happen to practice in West Bend do you?

How old are you?  I got contacts at 20, love them 35 years later, but I now have reading glasses stashed everywhere.

I tried contacts about 10 years ago and didn't work for me. One reason my eyes are very dry so after a few hours I and dropping eye drops ever five minutes and second which wasn't as bad was the astigmatism I have in my eyes. Plus the contacts made my eyes so much more light sensitive than they where so got rid of them and just use glasses. My prescription really hasn't change much is 15 years just .25 on each eye due to getting older and most of it being the astigmatism. Just my experience. If already light sensitive then avoid contacts.

SHit just got real yo!!!!!!!!!!!!



 

I wore glasses for 25 years. Contacts for maybe a year of that.

Save your contact money up, get iLASIK. I wish I had done it 10 years ago.

No. i am metro milwaukee but not that far out. Usually i suggest wearing your lenses for 2 hours on the first day and add 2 hours extra per day.

Plus your brain needs to adjust to the difference between the correction on the eye (contacts) vs correction 13 mm in front of the eye (glasses).  Two different types of mechanisms