Adjusting to Life With New Glasses

Have you just got your first prescription?

Are you liking your new glasses look?

It may take a while for you to really like your new look and get comfortable with the fact that you are wearing glasses.

Of Course you won’t be able to flaunt your perfectly winged eyeliner or run on a treadmill at the gym. But there are more problems you didn’t see coming when you bought those frames.

‘Glasses make you less appealing’ is so yesterday. If anything, they are a significant means to reflect your personality. But reflecting personality when your glasses are giving you a hard time can be a little complicated.

We feel you. Although people who have been wearing glasses for a while know how to crack these problems, the newbies might need help.

Here are the 5 most common challenges that people with glasses face:

Forgetting to Wear Them

Forgetting glasses at home is any glasses-wearer’s worst nightmare. Leave them at home and the world will be a blurry mess.

Often people put their specs in different places and then search for them at the very last minute when they have to go out. This can put you in hopeless situations sometimes.

Getting late for work but can’t find your glasses? Would you rather go to your office late or go to your office blind. Now that’s a dilemma!

The solution? Keep a spare pair in your bag, glove box or in your office desk. Prescription glasses are generally costly. So if you seek to buy multiple pairs (for emergency or fashion), you can easily find good-quality cheap glasses online in different frame styles and designs.

You might as well secure them with a chain and wear it around your neck. There are various styles of glasses chains so you can choose the one that best suits your taste.

Those Glasses Headaches

The most common complaint that people in the adjusting phase come across — ‘persistent headaches’. Don’t fret if you have a blurry vision and headache for a few days after wearing your new eyeglasses. This is completely normal.

Your eyes won’t immediately adapt to the new prescription or reading glasses. They work harder to compensate for the new vision changes they are not accustomed to and hence the headaches.

But this doesn’ mean that you throw your glasses away and never see them again. Your eyes won’t like it.

What you can do is wear them for 3 or 4 hours continuously for a couple of days or a week. This will help your eyes to adjust to the change.

Whether you are buying glasses online or from an optician, make sure the frame is a perfect fit for your face. Poor-fitting glasses are not ideal when you are trying to avoid headache.

Fogged up lenses

Do you have to take off your glasses every time you have hot soup or coffee? If you don’t, you must know how it feels to be temporarily blind.

As if this was not enough, we now need to wear face masks as per the COVID-19 norms. While most people find it difficult to breathe inside their face mask, glasses-wearers have one more problem to take care of.

When you breathe out from your mask, the warm breath goes upwards to the colder lens surface, cools down and causes fogging.

If you are tired of cleaning your glasses a million times in a day, wash your glasses with soap and water. This will form a thin film on the lens preventing water molecules to stick on the surface. You can also try face masks with a flexible nose bridge so they leave no gap on the sides of your nose.

If you like to know more ways to prevent your glasses from fogging up, click here.

Cleaning Lenses With Your Clothes

Glasses often get dirty and when you clean them with your t-shirt or scarf, it leaves a lot of micro fibres on the lens surface.

If you have plenty of time, wash the lenses with lukewarm water and dishwashing liquid. Wash thoroughly and dry the lenses using a clean towel.

However, if you are running out of time or don’t have the above provisions, use pre-moistened disposable lens cleaning wipes to clean your lenses on the go.

Be careful while cleaning the lenses as you might damage them in the process. Read here to know how you can clean glasses without damaging the lens.

Glasses & Headphones Don’t Go Well Together

Wearing headphones when you are bespectacled can invite a number of physical discomforts; Headache and sore ears to name a few.

The constant pressure on both sides of the ears makes glasses and headphones a rather uncomfortable mix.

If you are an avid headphone-user, go for thinner frames with thin temple arms. This will reduce the pressure on your temporal bone and ear cartilage. You may also choose to buy over-ear headphones with thick ear paddings so the pressure is distributed evenly across the circumference of your ears.

The Conclusion

No matter how trendy or cool your frame is, some common struggles associated with wearing spectacles just can’t be avoided. If you are in the adjustment period, you might come across some of the above problems or maybe all of them. But no matter how hard it gets, ‘never give up on your glasses’.