So I've just made my 28th visit to a glasses shop (33rd if you include online retailers) and all I have to show for it is a cut in my right ear, a migraine that has lasted over a month and a receipt for some £25 NHS style specs that will likely disintegrate within minutes of leaving the shop when they are ready.
I'm ready to jump of a cliff. The problem is that I seemingly have a very wide head so hardly any of the glasses fit, and if they do they are a shape that does not suit me at all, seem to only be rectangular ones and they look terrible on me and age me a lot. I'm not fat just wide in the head at the wrong section seemingly.
The problem seems to be that I care what I look like and I want to look nice and a little bit hip. I am not very happy to give up on life and become somebody that just doesn't care what they look like, but apparently I have no choice.
I bought some at a whopping £280 from Vision Express which looked adequate and seemed to fit. However once I wore them for 14 hours a day for a couple of days they rubbed my right ear so much that it cut it. They were some kind of sporty skull grabbing things that I thought may have helped the fat head situation by circumventing a bit which they did, but for the ear problem they would have been adequate.
I've now had migraines for a month and a half because my existing two pairs don't fit - one are too small and have therefore stretched so slip down my nose all the time so the constant shifting focus gives me the frontal headaches, the other pair are just too narrow so squash my temples giving me the side headache in addition to the remnant of frontal headache.
They've tried to suggest those that bend outwards but they look awful and a bit like when a six year old does a 2d drawing of somebody in glasses, just emphasising the massive head further.
I've just had to buy the cheapest pair that fit inn order to try to stop the migraines, but even they take a bit of lead in time because the lenses have to be ordered in because they are wide (further fat head problems).
Can't get contacts as two separate opticians have said I'd get eye infections and would only have 80% vision anyway, which is basically the same as what I have if I take the glasses off.
Not sure what the point of me sharing this is but I just want to vent and scream and smash my headache causing existing goggles into the wall
Over and out
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He had some frames made for some of the bigger blokes on the Ulster rugby team
https://www.tdtomdavies.com/bespoke.aspx
There are other bespoke makers like Opera Opera in London
Edit: £575 from Opera Opera!! I wish, sadly
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* ladies love my big old face, mind.
Might get my hair cut short tomorrow though to see if that makes any difference, as it will also remove the blond top of hair I seemed to acquire all of a sudden this summer
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For the wider-faced gentleman my favourite forum-for-obscure-information recommends Police frames, or CAT (the digger/boot brand).
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Now you're likely to get a 16-year-old with an iPad which tells them what to do.
I'd recommend seeking out a practice that actually has a properly accredited DO. There's nothing immediately wrong with the specs in the picture - as in, they suit you cosmetically and aren't laughably mis-sized - but it sounds like the drop part of the side has been incorrectly adjusted - either too short or with too steep an angle - and really needs to be adjusted by someone who knows what they're doing.
For the money you've paid you deserve a pair of specs that work properly - don't hesitate to go back and complain.
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