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Dude, have your pupillary distance checked. I got a pair of glasses from warby parker and used their "hold a business card to your nose so we can guess at that measurement". This pair was instant fucking headaches until I went into one of their brick and mortar stores and they checked things.
The focus point for my lenses was a good 5mm below where it should have been. My eyes are fucking bad and so I was basically looking through the distorted edge of high index lenses.
A quick trip back to the shop for the lenses to get redone and now I can wear them comfortably.
This is for anyone having issues with new glasses - if your prescription hasn't changed that much from your prior year, but new glasses hurt or are severely uncomfortable, get that shit checked out. That shouldn't be the case.
For you, @OP - if you've always had a script but never been able to use your glasses due to headaches/motion sickness, get a different eye doctor. Don't just go to a mall lens crafters, try to find an optometrist whose name is on the door. Tell them your symptoms. They should check your eyes for a plethora of things - maybe you've got astigmatism, or something else.
It's not normal to have a severe reaction to glasses if they're the correct match for your eyes.
Ah, no, I never wore them because I “didn’t need them” and it was inconvenient. I’m very bad with forming new routines to do things I should do, and keeping routines that exist, so if I don’t need them, I won’t use them.
Now I’m realizing I need them and probably have for a while, but the light prescriptions I had in the past were to see if eye issues were contributing to my headaches.
They don’t cause them. That’s a whole other issue that’s being handled as best it can be. My prescription was always really mild. Still is, but it’s enough that I feel a need for it in daily life. Because I wanna play video games without eye strain.
My eye doc is through the VA and I’ve seen many over the years, and they have all said the same thing; you don’t really need them yet but we’ll give you a pair to try to see if it helps. They have checked for all the things because I see halos and stuff. But apparently nothing significant. Dry eye can apparently cause similar stuff and I’ve got some really unpleasant gel drops for that now :)