I’ve had these Tommy Hilfiger glasses since 2020 and I love them. My old lenses (also from 2020) were slightly damaged so I decided to update them.
I’m having awful issues with distortion, especially in the lower field of view, plus chromatic aberration and general discomfort, it’s like I can’t match the images from both eyes. I’m trying to understand whether this is due to prescription, axis, lens design, or fitting.
Old lenses (more comfortable even now):
Right: -1.00 / -0.25 × 165°
Left: -1.25 / -0.25 × 35°
1.5 index
New lenses:
Right: -1.00 / -0.75 × 180°
Left: -1.50 / -0.50 × 180°
1.6 index
My main issues are:
-Strong distortion in the lower part of the lenses, everything is compressed
-Chromatic aberration, especially on the lower part of the field and when I look down at my phone
-Discomfort and headaches at the end of the day
-Harder to focus on phone/near objects
-Overall feels worse than my old lenses, despite being sharper
My right eye feels mostly fine. Left eye improves when:
-I tilt the glasses forward/down and slightly inward (big improvement)
-Rotate the glasses slightly clockwise (5–10°) (smaller improvement)
-Astigmatism chart is more even when I tilt the glasses slightly forward and inward
When I tilt the frame, distortion and chromatic aberration reduce significantly.
I also notice the old lenses are thicker and curvier (I’m not sure how to explain it better but both surfaces are more curved. The new ones are flatter and thinner. They just pushed thinner flatter lenses on me.
-Could this be causing the distortion by not adapting as well to the rotation of the cornea?
-Can higher index flatter lenses cause all this?
-Could the stronger cylinder cause it? If I use -50 cyl on both lenses, would the different distortion between both eyes improve and cause less discomfort?
-could this be caused by slightly off lens mounting and optical centre pointing in the wrong direction?
The cylinder axis is also different, could it really change this much in 6 years? At the ophthalmologist it seemed fine
I’m desperate at this point, I’ve been to the ophthalmologist twice, these lenses are a remake with a lower cylinder than the previous ones and I’m still definitely not going to keep them. I’m mainly trying to understand if I should just return them, ask for a refund and go to the store where I made my old ones and ask for new low index lenses with the updated prescription; or if I should go back to the ophthalmologist and ask for a lower cylinder still.
Any advice is welcome!!!