My eyes! The glasses do nothing!

I'd had the same pair of glasses since 2001, and so my bride-to-be decided I might want to get some new ones for the upcoming wedding / reception / honeymoon.

So last Thursday I got them checked, got a new prescription (one that wasn't much different than the first one), and got a new pair of glasses (and a pair of sunglasses) made at Lenscrafters.

Everything was a giant blur.  If I'm not looking straight ahead, if I look to my left or my right without turning my head, everything got very, very smeary.  Like the glasses need to be wiped clean.

I took them back to Lenscrafters and they confirmed the glasses were made properly. Then I took them to another glasses place and had them check them, but they also confirmed that they're made according to the prescription I received.

As an aside, I kept running into this weird problem no matter where I took my glasses or prescription to be rechecked.  The places where they were originally done always get very defensive and tell me not to go anywhere else to have anything verified.  Then other places, once hearing that I need to get my prescription re-checked, get very cold suddenly, as if there's some unwritten code out there that you do not step on another eye doctor's toes.

I tried for days to get back in with the eye doc, but now that it's back to school time there were no appointments to be had.  Finally I got in yesterday at another place (after being told by 12 other places that it would be a week before I could be seen) and got a slightly different  prescription. 

The eye exam was the most frustrating experience of my life.  Every choice I was given looked no different than the one before it.  And the doc who rechecked my eyes yesterday wasn't very interested in anything beyond the whole "1 or 2" answer. I kept trying to explain that everything looks smudgy and smeary but she really didn't seem to care.

So I got the new glasses made.  While they're a little better than the previous pairs, its still like looking through a funhouse mirror depending on where I look or how I move my head.  If I look straight ahead I really have to concentrate for things to come into focus for about 10 seconds. If I look left or right, it all goes to hell.

And driving is particularly troublesome.  Traffic lights and headlights are blurry and smudgy as hell.

What makes even less sense is that the sunglasses, while by no means perfect, have in each case been notably better than the regular glasses.

I'm so frustrated.  And with all the festivities coming up... I'm just so dejected that I won't really be able to see them.