What to do with enduring eye pain and discomfort after glasses change?

[loopynoo]

Hello, I'll try to make this as short as possible but it's a bit of a long story.

Around January 20, 2019, I accidentally sat on my glasses and one of the arms went loose. When I put them back on, I immediately got a headache, but I didn't see any change in my vision. The next day I went to an optician who fixed the loose arm - but I still had a headache. I know I'm quite sensitive to eye stuff so even if my vision seemed fine something was wrong.

I went back the next day to an optician who tightened the glasses a little (enough so I perceived a slight change in perception) and told me to do a checkup with an ophthalmologist just in case. I went the next day and he said everything seemed fine - he gave me a new prescription but said the difference with my current prescription was minimal (slightly more astigmatism in the right eye).

I still had discomfort and pain so I decided to just go and get completely new glasses to start over, with the new prescription. I got them in mid-February but after a week my vision hadn't adapted (fish eye effect, can't focus) so I went back to the place where I got my glasses made. The lady there did a quick check on my vision and told me it seemed my sight was more like my PREVIOUS prescription, and that the prescription the ophthalmologist gave might have been a little skewed because of eye fatigue or other factors. So finally, she put back the old prescription in the new frames.

It has now been three weeks and I still have pain and discomfort. I could describe it as a dull ache that is usually around and in the right eye, but occasionnally with the left one. I also feel numbness from it that spreads to my whole cheeks. In terms of sight I feel like I don't see clear but it's hard to define how. It's like I can't make the focus, especially with faster eye movements, and it makes me dizzy. Screens seem to worsen it a bit.

I must add that I have been going through a depressive episode, and I know headaches are part of the symptoms, however I never had ocular headaches like these in past such episodes + it would be too much of a coincidence with the whole broken glasses thing.

What should I do now?

[JohnHaganMD]

When you buy a pair of glasses besides the glasses RX there are over a dozen other variables so they may not feel or see the same. Think about your closet full of shoes that are usually all the same size.  Some are comfortable, some are uncomfortable even though the size is the same.  When glasses RX is given  1. the RX is picked by the patient not the doctor or technician  2. It is a subjective test so tests give variable results even if tested close together  3. the dozen other parameters are picked by patient and optician (style, manufacturer of lens, lens material and coating, etc.)   Usually in a situation like this  the OLD comfortable RX would be exactly duplicated (including things like Base curve) and use new frames that are an exact copy of your old ones or as close tosize/shape as possible.