New eyes, please!!!

Just over a year ago, I had my eyes tested. The prescription was made up, with a tint on my distance lenses, all was fine, and away I went.

About 6 months ago, I started noticing that the sight in my right eye was altering. This was my good eye. The distance prescription was negligible and the reading wasn't much more, but now I was having difficulty at all ranges. It appeared that my right eye was now worse than my left...

As I'm on a fixed income, I qualify for help with healthcare costs. This means I can have a free eye exam... every 2 years. Bizarrely, I can have as much dental treatment - including gold crowns - and as much medical treatment as I can lay my hands on. But if my eyesight changes during this time, the optician has to decide if I have to pay... which can only be decided after an examination!

As it happens, when I described the change to the receptionist, She had a quick word and the thought was that there was enough change to warrant a free exam. So, 2 weeks ago, I duly attend my exam.

There was a change in my right eye, as suspected. It has become worse than the left. A prescription was written, based on the perfect set up arranged in the exam. I had to wait a day for frames in my size to arrive, so I could decide how daft I wanted to look.

The frames arrived, a choice was made and a tint for my distance lenses was chosen.

Yesterday, I went to collect my new specs. When I tried them on, I was expecting the miraculous change that happened during the exam. Oh, no... they were so bad, I turned them upside down, in case they'd swapped the lenses, but it was just as bad.

The reading glasses were actually ok, for the left eye, but useless for the right, with the net result being my right eye feels odd and the letters are still blurred, a touch. OK, the readers aren't right. The distance were worse still. I could read signs across the office, without them, but they were a complete mess with them. I said so. The dispenser went to check them on the equipment. they were spot on, per the prescription. I agreed to take them and try them for a few days.

I popped the distance pair on, the tint reduced the light to a comfortable level, and I set off to give them a whirl. Everything beyond about 12 feet was blurred and wasn't much better, closer to. I made it home without crashing and tried to read the paper... Ha! No chance!

They're going back.

If the re-exam (hopefully with a different optician in the practice) doesn't improve things, I'm going to have to ask the optician to write it up, so I can take it to my quack and get an urgent appointment with an eye specialist. I can't continue like this - I have to study, the nights are closing in and I need to drive. I need to know WTF is going on!