Does anyone else find having to wear your glasses hurts your face on bad days of pain.
I need my glasses to see as I have several mixed up eyesight problems but find them touching me very painful.
Just wondering how common this is. ?
Glad you brought that up because I have the same problem. I am able to wear contact lenses most of the day but take them out in the evening due to dry eyes, and always dread putting my glasses on because most of the time it really flares up the nerve pain.
Are you able to wear contact lenses?
AHA! You just answered a question for me, a non-glasses user. My Mom and Grandmother have/had TN, and grandma had glasses that just gripped onto her nose, and a normal pair that she closed the earpieces and held thtem with 1 hand as she read through them. Always wondered why until you brought this up.
Glasses would be a real hardship for TN. I do know one lady I used to work for that had a pretty necklace that was a magnifier. Makes me wonder if she had this problem too.
Sheila
No, they cannot make my special lenses small enough or something cause of the shape etc... My glasses have been reduced to as light as they can make them, much better than the old days when they looked like a glass brick !
They tried to fit normal contacts to test me out but it just never worked ....too sensitive and pain .
I guess I will just have to take them off more often and stumble around the house.
DAWN T said:
Glad you brought that up because I have the same problem. I am able to wear contact lenses most of the day but take them out in the evening due to dry eyes, and always dread putting my glasses on because most of the time it really flares up the nerve pain.
Are you able to wear contact lenses?
sometimes I take them off and use them like a magnifier to read the paper when it hurts to wear them. I would love to have a large magnifier made to my prescription as normal ones you buy at shops are not strong enough, but I guess it would cost a fortune to make one as my normal glasses cost something ridiculous since they have to blend 3 conditions into one lense.
Sheila said:
AHA! You just answered a question for me, a non-glasses user. My Mom and Grandmother have/had TN, and grandma had glasses that just gripped onto her nose, and a normal pair that she closed the earpieces and held thtem with 1 hand as she read through them. Always wondered why until you brought this up.
Glasses would be a real hardship for TN. I do know one lady I used to work for that had a pretty necklace that was a magnifier. Makes me wonder if she had this problem too.
Sheila
Come to think of it, Judy, yes, pain in my upper branch does seem to come on more often than not when I am wearing my glasses.
I don't have the pain in that part of my nose where the glasses sit. However, should I even touch my cheek, it feels like I have gotten punched in the face. But when I have an attack, I take them off just because of the level of pain.
Jordan
that describes it exactly how I get it !
At first I thought it was the pressure of touching the nose, before I knew I had all this stuff going on but that didnt seem to make sense as I was having that punched in the upper face feeling and then pain started increasing.
Jordan Carsa said:
I don't have the pain in that part of my nose where the glasses sit. However, should I even touch my cheek, it feels like I have gotten punched in the face. But when I have an attack, I take them off just because of the level of pain.
Jordan
I only need to wear my glasses for when i'm on the computer (so basically all day at work) and once the pain starts, the have to come off as it just intensifies my pain
Michelle
Glad I'm not the only one.Glasses driving me nuts.I've been walking around in a bit of a daze with out them as they quickly make my eye socket area ache.It is strange but this seems to have got worse since I've started tacking meds.But if I up the dose it goes away for a while.Then it starts aching again.I've had little patients lately.I've been so irritable.I feel sorry for my partner.
Jacks, have you tried amitriptyline ? I found just 20mgs a night helped calm my nerve down enough in the day to be able to start to wear sun glasses again. I have not tried since the summer to wear them , but the ear to eye nerve pathway now seems to be much better. I no longer have the ache there, that the glasses used to worsen, they used to feel like they weighed a half a stone
Yes, absolutely!! The nose & ear pieces put added pressure on the face! I can't get them off fast enough when severe pain strikes!! The lighter weight, plastic frames with no nose piece is a much better choice.
How do you get glasses without a nose piece? And how do they balance? I have very thick lenses due to stigmatism etc so I doubt they would not be able to make these for me as I already have limits when choosing what frames I would like.
I apologize for the delay!! I'm referring to the smaller type of smooth nose pieces on plastic frames as opposed to the attached pcs. that are adjustable & press into the nose. Hope you know what I mean. That was a bit confusing!
I have the same problem. And contacts are not an option for me.
It is just another joyous thing brought to my life by ATN.
Hi Stef.
Yes & no for me. I often wear sunglasses when I am having severe pain as they seem to help as I have a lot of pain behind my eye and light seems to aggravate it further as does closing my eyes all of the way. So, sunglasses enable my eye to not have to work as hard to see. I don' wear seeing eyeglasses.
However, when I am at a severe pain level, anything touching my face including a scarf, my hand, air in general and unfortunately, my sunglasses does make the pain worse for me. So, if this happens, I put a pillow over my head, balanced on another pillow, so the pillow doesn't touch my face. Not very effective if you're trying to paticipate in life at all (lol).
I'm sorry you're experiencing this. Unlike you, I have a choice to take off my sunglasses and do something different. If you do have a choice sometimes, when your kids or husband aren't home or you have the ability to take a break (yes, as a no kid person I have this luxury), I would recommend trying my pillow trick without glasses on. It seems to work well as it blocks noise & light and this seems to help sometimes. I do leave the TV or music on quietly in the background as singing in my head or listening to a show on TV sometimes works as a good distraction.
Best to you! Johanna
hi! It did in NY where my skin was thinner. I think humidity may help block the pain. My nerve pain is always worse in the summer when my skin is softer or it doesnt like the heat. I know I have rubber tips on all the edges. If you would like ill ask my ocular. Its a great TNA question. Theres got to be something available.
Judy.
Oops, I addressed my above reply to somebody else. Sorry about that. Am a little on the brain dead side from pain and meds the last few days.
I just wanted to apologize for the oversight.
Best. Johanna
I too am bothered by my glasses. I have contacts as well, but when it is a bad pain day, I can't wear those either. That's why I find myself in a dark room, lying in bed, being still, with no glasses on my face.
I completely understand your problem, Judy. I have the same trouble with glasses. I get the absolute thinnest lens possible and the lightest plastic frame I can find. It still hurts my face a bit, but not as much as metal frames with those darned nose pieces. I've bought 3 pr of glasses in the last year that I had to give away because I just can't tolerate the frame.