Returning glasses

[redbird]

I'm returning my new suneyeglasses, and having them remade in the plastic of my previous lenses, and without the self-darkening coating, for three reasons:

1. I'm still not quite adjusted to them, and the optician suggested that the problem might be the change to polycarbonate.


2. The darkened lenses let in enough light to cause eyestrain, because it gets in past the edges of the glasses. They also aren't entirely clear indoors, though the shading is subtle.


3. I cannot get them to stay clean for more than about five minutes, whether I use soap and water, the special cleaning stuff the optician sold me, or just my shirttail.

This means going back to the old, heavy glasses for at least a week, but it needs doing. I'd probably be returning them even if it were only that self-darkening lenses don't work for me, but I might have kept the polycarbonate if so.

N.B. Edited to fix typo that changed the meaning--these are my basic bifocal everything glasses.

Comments

[wild-patience.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you posted it. I have an eye appointment in a couple of weeks. My old glasses are scratched up so I want to get new ones. I've been wearing polycarbonate lenses for years quite happily. I was considering getting the self-darkening ones since people have said they're better than what they had in the 1970s, which was the only time I had them. I will ask around before I order.

[redbird]

There are two things to note here. The first is that the person who sold me the glasses told me they'd go entirely clear indoors, and they don't quite.

The second is that I am hypersensitive to bright light (a result of a concussion some years ago); people without this problem seem to do quite well with these, or normal prescription sunglasses.