[lakeview]

#1018675

I thought it would be good to share my experience wearing prism glasses. I have to say I am grateful that I have had these glasses… I have had fresnel prisms (like stickers put in my existing glasses). I had this since my normal prescription is about -7 and -09 so if they had ground the prisms into my glasses I would have been wearing major coke bottles.
Prism glasses have really helped me not to see double. However I have to say Fresnels are often a little bubbly and blur my vision. My eye doctor gave me a less strong fresnel – and this helped reduce the blurring significantly. Still not great vision but I have managed with these glasses much better than without. And it is great not to see the world in double.
However – I am looking forwrd to my surgery and really seeing again.
Cheers,
Lakeview

[Kimberly]

#1066391

Thanks so much for this info…it could be really helpful to someone who is newly struggling with double vision issues. Congrats on getting the green light on your strabismus surgery — this must be a huge relief!

[Ski]

#1066392

These can be really wonderful for relieving double vision, which is SO disturbing. I just wanted to make a comment that they can be difficult to use for people who are new to the eye disease, because typically their eyes are changing frequently, so it can be a frustrating exercise to try and keep the prisms in exactly the right place. There are stick-on versions that can at least be removed if they no longer match your particular mis-alignment, but again, if things change almost daily, you can end up just chasing the sweet spot. For those particular people, it can be simpler to use eye patches when you need to, switching eyes every so often to ensure that one eye doesn’t become weak from lack of use.

[Bobbi]

#1066393

I’ll add a "ditto" to Ski’s comments. My eye doctors tried to assess prisms for my double vision issues and it was impossible to find a prism that worked all the time. If your vision fluctuates in and out of double they are no help.

[lakeview]

#1066394

I can understand how for some people prism glasses don’t work… initially I almost threw my away since my eyes were fluctuating .. I persisted with them as my vision went increasingly double. In the end the truth is I don’t see well but I don’t see double so it is a compromise. But at least now I can talk to people and look them in the eyes – before I was twisting my head with my chin up to see anything..
Boy, when you have Graves you sure do learn accommodation methods!!! And bravely continue onward.

[Jake_George]

#1066395

When my prisms were changing often I went to one of the national eye glass chains that advertised free changes for a year if your vision changed. I would get the prisms ground into my lenses. I paid extra for the prisms but it beat the stick on kind all to heck.

Over the course of the year I had about three different sets. After that I kept all the lenses. As my eyes fluctuated I swapped out lenses ( with my doctor’s help) to keep the double vision at bay. With three sets of different prisms I could almost always get the diopter strength the doctor said was needed and no additional cost to me.

Just a thought…

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