Dude, have your pupillary distance checked. I got a pair of glasses from warby parker and used their “hold a business card to your nose so we can guess at that measurement”. This pair was instant fucking headaches until I went into one of their brick and mortar stores and they checked things.

The focus point for my lenses was a good 5mm below where it should have been. My eyes are fucking bad and so I was basically looking through the distorted edge of high index lenses.

A quick trip back to the shop for the lenses to get redone and now I can wear them comfortably.

This is for anyone having issues with new glasses - if your prescription hasn’t changed that much from your prior year, but new glasses hurt or are severely uncomfortable, get that shit checked out. That shouldn’t be the case.

For you, @OP - if you’ve always had a script but never been able to use your glasses due to headaches/motion sickness, get a different eye doctor. Don’t just go to a mall lens crafters, try to find an optometrist whose name is on the door. Tell them your symptoms. They should check your eyes for a plethora of things - maybe you’ve got astigmatism, or something else.

It’s not normal to have a severe reaction to glasses if they’re the correct match for your eyes.

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55m here.

I’m farsighted and started to need glasses for close up around the age of 36. Never really had to get use to them per se as I always had non-prescription sunglasses anyway.

I became a full time glasses wearer around the age of 40. At the age of 45 I became a progressive lens wearer and those took me about 2 full weeks to get use to. So it’s been about 10 years that I’ve worn progressives and my script has changed 4 times. It takes me a couple of days to get used to a new script.

I’m also legally blind in my right eye. It sees just well enough that it tracks with my left eye. One optometrist insisted on giving me 1/2 strength script for my right eye and I went along with it. It took me weeks to get used to it as I’m not used to having binocular vision of any kind, not to mention the near Coke bottle look to the lens. 3D movies are almost and absolute no go for me, because they make me ill. My current glasses have a script on the right lens, but it’s not nearly as strong.

I’ve worn glasses about sixteen hours a day my entire adult life. Got my first pair around 10. Acclimating took maybe four or five days of minor discomfort. The improved vision was incredible and as a child I had child durability, so I didn’t mind the discomfort. I vividly remember how strange it felt for air to hit my face with glasses on while walking or running.

Every time I get a major prescription update it takes two or three days to feel “right”. Until then I have some disorientation. I would expect an adult who hasn’t consistently worn glasses to feel that more keenly.

If I had continued eye strain after three days of constant and consistent wear, I would call the optometrist. If it lasted a week and the optometrist was blowing me off I’d consider my options. Some prescriptions are better than others. I could tell you exactly when I got my best prescription, it was life changing. I didn’t know people could see like that. I’ve never had a “bad” prescription to the best of my knowledge, every time I’ve updated it has been an improvement.

I started needing glasses when I was 13. I couldn’t see the writing on the chalkboard any more. My eyes have slowly gotten worse since then and nowadays I need them all the time. It’s still an adjustment every time I get a new pair, but you get used to it real quick

So I didn’t get nausea when I first got glasses (that I remember at least, I had some as a child for a bit for other reasons and then in my late teens got them for short-sightedness) but I have 2 pairs - one I use for computers/reading/anything close-by (which, since I don’t bother changing them for my commute, is most of the time - and no I’m not in a car and I can see everything fine anyway, just distant text is hard) and one pair that fully corrects my vision that I use otherwise. When I’ve gone a while without using the stronger pair, I always get some nausea for a bit after putting them on, but it goes away after a few hours, and if I wear that pair for a few days, it stops happening completely. I think you’ll get used to it. I also have one eye with a much stronger defict than the other, and I think that might be related since correcting that probably affects depth perception.

I’ve worn glasses my entire life and only once has trouble, when an optometrist was making my lenses incorrectly.

This sounds excessive, you should go get things checked.

My eyes have always been horrible, since I was in first or second grade. I was a voracious reader, always the best in the class, and far ahead of my age group. At the same time that I was devouring reading material, I remember having splitting headaches for some reason, but they stopped when I got glasses.

I wore glasses every minute of my waking life until I was about 30, and my girlfriend, now my wife, convinced me to get contacts, and I’ve worn them for decades.

Now I’m old, and just recently went to the eye doc to get a cataract taken care of, and he told me that my entire bad eyesight can be chalked up to the fact that my eyes are much bigger than normal, and that causes nearsightedness in people with normal sized skulls. He said I have the eyeballs of a 7 foot 2 inch man!

It figures, I got one thing on my body that enormous, and it’s my eyeballs.

My eyes have always been horrible, since I was in first or second grade. I was a voracious reader, always the best in the class, and far ahead of my age group. At the same time that I was devouring reading material, I remember having splitting headaches for some reason, but they stopped when I got glasses.

I wore glasses every minute of my waking life until I was about 30, and my girlfriend, now my wife, convinced me to get contacts, and I’ve worn them for decades.

Now I’m old, and just recently went to the eye doc to get a cataract taken care of, and he told me that my entire bad eyesight can be chalked up to the fact that my eyes are much bigger than normal, and that causes nearsightedness in people with normal sized skulls. He said I have the eyeballs of a 7 foot 2 inch man!

It figures, I got one thing on my body that enormous, and it’s my eyeballs.

I think I was 10. The bridge made my nose hurt and I think I got headaches for a few days from it or the lenses themselves. Changing frames causes some discomfort for a day or two.

Now I can wear glasses for over 24 hours straight without issue.

My vision wasn’t that bad from what I recall, but now I am at a -5.50 or something. I wear contacts when I leave the house and greatly prefer them, especially the transitions contacts that tint like sunglasses in sunlight. Seriously, the transitions contacts are glorious with my light sensitivity and it makes colors really “pop”.

I got my glasses in 9th grade (~15 years old). I just went to school one day and realized I couldn’t read the chalkboard at the front of the class anymore. Within a week, I had an eye exam and my first set of glasses.

Personally, it took me a couple years to adjust to them. I had 20/10 vision all throughout my childhood (I can see at 20 ft what most people see at 10 ft). My vision was better than perfect. So it was very distressing to all-of-a-sudden not be able to see clearly and it took me a long time to get used to it.

Also, glasses limited my range of view. Whereas I had a wide view normally, glasses put a smaller focused frame around my field of view, so I could only focus on details mostly straight ahead. Everything that moved in the corners of my vision spooked me because I couldn’t focus on it without turning my head toward it. I was very jumpy for a long time.

My vision isn’t terrible. Even at 41 years old now, my prescription is pretty weak. I’m nearsighted, so I don’t even need my glasses for things up close, just long-distance viewing.

And thankfully, it’s been stable for a long time. It’s hardly changed in the last decade and a half. As of last year, my optometrist has been telling me my eyesight could potentially get much worse, now that I’m over 40. So I’ve been told to report back if I notice another sudden change in my vision. But I’ve been good so far.

I wanted to get PRK surgery for a while and I could’ve opted for a free surgery through the US military while I was serving. But things kept getting in the way of my request, and I finally decided to just leave it be. Especially as I got older; I was afraid I’d only be able to enjoy being glasses-free for a few years before I’d start needing reading glasses or something.

Also, my mother spent over 40 years working for the State Services for the Blind, so I grew up around a lot of blind people and always feared losing my vision. So I was a little terrified of getting eye surgery and potentially getting a botched job.

I had a similar situation as you. I got a prescription later in life in my late 20s after never wearing glasses before. One eye had a stronger prescription than the other.

It took me about 5 days of daily wear to fully acclimate to the prescription. Each day got better than the last, but I definitely felt like you are describing on day 1.

It isn’t a fun process but it will also feel better and your eyes will feel much less strained with the prescription, so it is ultimately worth it.

I’m 43 and I just got my first pair about 4 months ago. It took me about 2 weeks to get used to them but it still throws me off a little now and then. I apparently had a number of vision issues I had just been stubbornly dealing with without realizing it lol I don’t get splitting headaches every day now so I call it a win

Started at 3. Now 48. Contacts since 13. Prescription varies, but somewhere around -7.0 to -8.0 in each eye. Contacts give more natural vision, but took a bit to get used to. I have been able to touch my eye without blinking for 20+ years. Doc is now telling me to add reading glasses to my contacts. Contacts will reduce the headaches, but will take some time to get used to. Good luck!

I first got glasses around 7 or 8 years old. I think I adapted pretty quickly, because I don’t recall ever having any problems adjusting.

It wasn’t untilI was about 19 or 20 that I started to get headaches and motion sickness, after my prescription took a significant update. I think just the shape of the glasses I had at the time, combined with the much stronger prescription, was causing a fish-eye sort of effect for me and was making me nauseated, so I switched to contact lenses and have been wearing those ever since. I’ve not worn actual glasses for about 20 years now.

I definitely recommend trying out contacts, especially for the nausea.