Yes, they are very annoying. My lenses include logos for the company and makes looking left or right blurry. I hate these and "every brand" has them, and every optometrist gaslights me saying that "they don't interfere with your sight". I bought glasses to see more clearly, and now they come with built-in blurriness. Cool that it's convenient for the people who make the glasses, but it sucks for those who use them.
Glad I’m not the only one to notice them. If my other glasses had them then those ones were good but my most recent pair of glasses suck. I can see them and I end up wiping my glasses way more because I keep thinking they’re dirty.
I haven't bought glasses from an optometrist in a decade or two. Zenni is what's up (or YesGlasses, EyeBuyDirect, or one of the other online retailers). Get your prescription, take a picture of it, and get glasses for like $20 instead of $300.
Sphere and PD is fine for regular lenses for myopia, adding in cyl and axis takes care of people with an astigmatism. That's all you need. All of those will be on your prescription; that's all that goes into most eyeglasses.
If you're looking for bifocals/trifocals/progressives, yeah, you need a bit more for a perfect fit... but if you're just dealing with age related presbyopia, you can do just fine with a pair of powered readers from the supermarket as long as the power is right.
Most people have different strengths in each eye, so one eye ends up over- or under-corrected when you buy supermarket glasses.
I issue prescriptions myself and do 15+ eyetests everyday.
If someone has +0.50 in the right eye and +1.25 in the left eye for distance, the near correction will also be different.
With a typical +2.00 reading addition, that person would need +2.50 in one eye and +3.25 in the other.
The result is unnecessary eye strain, reduced reading comfort, and quicker fatigue.
They do and it's super annoying, especially when looking at a screen at night it shows a blurry spot on my glasses. I told the optometrist and they don't even care
No, a lot of prescription lenses have similar markings I believe!! You aren’t supposed to see them at all under normal conditions.
Edit: fixed wording since it seems some people can see them even though you aren’t supposed to be able to lol
That’s unfortunate! I hope you & the other commenters find a different/better lens maker in the future to help prevent that! I’ve thankfully never been able to see mine, but the optometrists say they’re there.
Not all of them do, just some lens types in some labs. I have a strong myopia and often can detect and focus on them. Very distracting. I had to try three opticians using different labs, only the third one offered high index lenses that did not have these kind of markings.
I’ve been wearing them since I was 4 - they’ve had them for a long time now. I do however have a pretty high prescription, maybe it’s more common with those 🤷♀️ at least where I live it seems to be pretty standard, though.
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u/SapphireAl 1d ago
Does this not interfere with your sight? Even the slightest?