When I went for my last eye test I had a stonker of a migraine on one side of my head and in addition, hadn't slept too many hours the night before because of the headache. I would have said my vision was affected. Put it this way, there were days when my vision had been clearer!

I asked the young optician if having a migraine affected the eye test and she assured me it didn't. So I went ahead with the eye test. When my new glasses came, particularly the distance glasses, I found that using them gives me a funny effect on the side on which I had the migraine that day. The other side feels fine. I keep rubbing the eye that side, as if trying to get it to focus more exactly or I get a slight headache that side as if from eye strain or a lense that is too powerful.

Does anyone have any knowledge of this?

Hi

I had something simular once, although didn't realise I was having a migraine but my vision was off during the eye test.
My new glasses were hopeless, so I went back and had another test, they were way out.
So the optician replaced them for me.

I would go back and explain to them that you aren't happy.
I think with the cost of glasses and the bad effect it can have on your eyes, they have got to be right.
Don't put up with them if you feel they aren't right. Even if another test proves no difference, at least it will put your mind at rest.

x

Thank you Caroline, that's interesting to hear. I'll do that. I do think Opticians should be aware that this kind of thing can happen. I brought it up specifically when I turned up for the eye test but the Optician I saw denied that there would be any effect. I wondered at the time if this was ignorance on her part about the effects of migraines, or just convenience because they'd lose out on the fee for the appointment if I had to come back for another test, or possibly lose out on the order for new glasses if I instead went to a different optician the next time. It's annoying me at the moment, because you have no choice but to rely on them for accurate information about your eyes and I just feel I've been schmoozed. I spent a bomb on new distance glasses and two pairs of new reading glasses only to feel hopeless when they came because they give me a headache. I've persisted in wearing them and my eyes do adapt to them to a degree after I've worn them for a while, only for my natural vision to be more blurred when I take them off. I didn't know whether it was me needing time to adapt, or whether the prescription was 'off'. Surely if they're based on the current state of your eyes at the eye test they shouldn't feel too powerful and you shouldn't need to get used to them?