Hello...
I work for a national chain... I won't say which one as I don't wish to start a flame war... anyways, I quite simply no longer trust my in-store lab and no longer wish to have my eyewear made by them. I have never purchased a pair of glasses from my store that has not had to be remade. Sad, no?
Anyways, I am mostly one-eye dominant (one eye is amblyopic and of not much use to me) and I'm at about a -4.00 -1.75 in my good eye. With just one good eye, any tiny little minute error bothers the hell out of me.
I'm currently dealing with a pair of glasses that will be going into a third remake. My lab had issues getting my PD correct first. The first two times I was in aspheric polycarb and this time I decided to go for 1.67's with a premium AR to get away from any distortion I might have been experiencing in the poly.
Still, I cannot see clearly unless I look out towards the right edge of my lens. My first thought was that my lab jacked up my PD once again. But the PD is dead on this time. So I put my lenses under the polariscope. I was horrified! You should see the amount of stress in these lenses. There is an area offset towards the right (right about where I look to see clearly) where there is nearly no stress at all.
Here's my question... am I crazy? Should there be all this stress in a 1.67 lens... and would it even really affect the way I'm seeing out of the lens? I talked to my GM about it over the phone and he seems to have no idea what I am even talking about. I told him I want my glasses remade at another store because I no longer trust my lab, as they have screwed up so many of my glasses (and every single pair of my mother and sisters' glasses as well that they have ever purchased), and he said he needs another lab manager from another store to take a look to see what I'm talking about... like he does not believe me. Am I crazy? Does anyone have any thoughts on stress in a lens and how it affects the optics?
Thanks!
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