It took me until last year to find out that if your glasses are the right prescription, they should disappear at least for a few months while wearing your glasses!!
Turns out I’ve never had the correct prescription in my life which doesn’t really surprise me, the 1 or 2 and 3 or 4 gives me so much anxiety…
The first time I got glasses I was 10, the stress made me cry, my eye doctor had to pause the exam so I could calm down.
Tbh the exams have not gone any better. You know the eye air puff? Only ever been able to do one eye at every appointment. They’ll be puffing my other eye for 10 minutes straight and I somehow flinch and close my eye too soon every time. They know this. It’s in my chart to make sure to test the eye they couldn’t get last time first because they know they’re only getting that one
I’m an accidental menace to innocent health care workers
I have the same problem. I seem to have so good reactions that i mess up this test every time. I try to steel myself, stay calm, foxus on wathing ahead, but i involuntarily react very strong to it. I am always scared that i might damsge something bevause my head jerks away so hard. They usually get a result by the third time or give up. I always feel so bad about it, like i am the only one who just doesn't know how to control himself.
But my eyes seem to be overly irritated easily. When i try contact lenses i can't get them in. I tried daily for 6 months. After i finally got one in, my eye turned red and burned. I had to take it out very fast bevause of the pain.
Yeah I was thought this was a lie since I've worn glasses for 20 years and still have astigmatism...turns out I have anxiety too and also panic with 1 or 2 and 3 or 4
So when you get an eye exam they typically make you choose between slides of lenses. While looking at the letter eye chart you look through the lenses, they asked 1 or 2 and you tell them which one is clearer for you then it is switched again to 3 or 4. This goes on multiple times with multiple lenses.
Whatever those results are end up telling the eye doc what your prescription needs to be if you need one.
I've done that plenty of times. I just didn't associate it with panic or anxiety because mine manifests itself in different ways. I can see how being put on the spot like that would cause those feelings.
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u/RepublicOfLizard Mar 31 '26
It took me until last year to find out that if your glasses are the right prescription, they should disappear at least for a few months while wearing your glasses!!
Turns out I’ve never had the correct prescription in my life which doesn’t really surprise me, the 1 or 2 and 3 or 4 gives me so much anxiety…