thank you jodie! I'll keep in mind those brands.
I can recommend a couple of good contacts for dry eyes: 1-day Acuvue moist and 1-day Soflens by Bausch & Lomb. But there is something even better which will available soon in the USA--the 1-day Acuvue TruEye. It is the first silicone hyrdrogel 1-day contact, and it is currently available in the UK, Australia, Germany and France. Look for it here later this year.
Thanks doctor for your advice. I will try the new glasses for a week then see the optometrist who made them if they don't work. One more question, I have really dry eyes (plugs, top tear ducts cauterized, use of restasis), so I don't think I can get lasik or wear contacts. I haven't tried contacts in several years. Are there any new brands for dry eyes you recommend? Thank you.
Meant to say they use the old glasses frame for new lens
JCH DM
Yes in a situation like this I ask the patient to return to the original lab and take the old comfortable glasses and say they want everything to remain the same. often they even use the old glasses.
CJHDM
Thanks for the input, Dr. Hagan. It still might help to use the same lab (and, hopefully, the same tech). Since the wearer is very sensitive to small changes, I'm wondering if it would help if the lab had access to the old ("good') glasses, so they could be used as a model. This would not be a perfect method, but maybe it would increase the probability of getting new glasses that work by keeping at least some of the variables constant.
You will not be able to get a copy of all the specifications because they include subjective variables like fram size, frame shape, angle the lens is held in front of the eye, (pantoscopic tilt), lens material, lens coatings, base curve of lens, PD, seg height, etc
Think of it like this at home most people have a closet full of shoes that are nominally all the same size (say size 8) but some fit good feel good, some other size 8 don't feel good and don't feel good.
JCH MD
I have a suggestion for you. Get a copy of all the specifications (those 15 or so variables referred to above by Dr. Hagan) used to make your old glasses which did work for you. Then have your new glasses made by the same lab according to those specifications.
1. There are about 15 variables with glasses so RX is only one.
2. Yes its possible you might get use to them in 7-10 days if not by then it isn't going to happen.
3. You might investigate contacts or LASIK
JCH MD