Does anyone have a prism prescription in their glasses?

[OzyOly]

As the title says really? I want to know what they look like, do they look really bad? Are you limited to the frame you can use?

I've had double vision for 4 years, in both eyes and have had so many tests; ophthalmologist, optometrist, opticians, GP, neurologist. I've even tried hard contact lenses when one of them though I might be developing keratoconus disease.
Finally though, with my eyes getting worse they think I have double vision in each eye plus double vision with both eyes.

So what they tested today was a corrction for my short sightedness (very weak prescription) plus a prism to help my eyes when they converge and amazingly, a lot of my double vision has gone. They've correct the binocular dipolar part of my double vision.
Now it didn't cross my mind at the hospital what these lenses would 'look' like so I googled it and came across things like this which has me kind of worried;

Is this what prism correct glasses are suppose to look like?

 

[Ceryndrion]

from what I recall, though I dont have a prism prescription myself, a friend of mine does, and he's never had any trouble with what frames he can have, just that the lenses are a bit thicker than usual.

You should have your eyes tested every two years or so, as you are experiencing, eyesight changes over time.

And what's wrong with the above picture? just looks like a pair of glasses to me.

 

[Aliboy]

And what's wrong with the above picture? just looks like a pair of glasses to me.

They do look like normal glasses but on closer inspection you can see that the left lense has some serious technology built in. It either has something built in to the lense that changes the appearance of plain wallpaper to make it look as though it is now a more trendy stripey design .... or they're fitted with the little heat elements that you see in car windscreens that heat the screen up for you to save you scraping at the glass.

Nothing worse if you ask me than standing at the bus stop on a cold winters day to find that your specs have started to frost up. This happened to me once before I got contact lenses and I can't begin to tell you how frustrating it was searching around in my wallet for something to scrape my specs with. Of course when I took the specs off I couldn't see bo-diddly-squat which caused me to miss my bus and subsequently be very late for a fantastic job that I was going for as chief bull ****** for a very well known forum that is run by a fantastic man call Spie Not to mention that my credit card broke as I set about scaping my specs as it was the only thing in my wallet at the time which had a decent enough scraping edge. That in turn cost me a relationship as I only had £2.45p in change in my pocket and my girlfriend to be didn't appreciate the fact that I took her round to the back of M&S to keep a lookout whilst I raked through the skip for Donuts

So if you have the chance OP .... buy those gadget specs and wear them with pride .... It could stop you turning out like me


Ohhhh. Just noticed that the right lense has a little speech bubble icon thingie built into them too. That means that you can look at people with your head tilted slightly skywards and see a little speach bubble appear above their heads. It wouldn't surprise me if it had sofware such as Naturally Speaking installed so that you could insert your own text for comedy value ..........



Wine really gets you sozzled huh? See previous posts for an explanation

 

[OzyOly]

from what I recall, though I dont have a prism prescription myself, a friend of mine does, and he's never had any trouble with what frames he can have, just that the lenses are a bit thicker than usual.

You should have your eyes tested every two years or so, as you are experiencing, eyesight changes over time.

And what's wrong with the above picture? just looks like a pair of glasses to me.

On the left lens you can see a sort of fresnel prism, I'm not sure if this is what most prism lenses are like or not...
I worried about this being visible, either my eyes looking like a kaleidoscope to people or even cross eyed.

 

[OzyOly]

Wine really gets you sozzled huh? See previous posts for an explanation

Just a tiny bit.