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My hobbies are all excuses to collect pretty colors. I enjoy knitting, sewing, running, trombone-ing, gardening, & sci-fi short stories. Coding when necessitated and occasionally for fun. Microbiology for fun & (non-)profit.


My old glasses slid down constantly unless they were propped up by my n95. "Don't worry," said the fitter at the optometrist's office. "I'll make it so your new glasses don't slip and won't hurt your ears."

And she did exactly that. Unfortunately, it turns out that keeping my glasses in one spot on my nose all day is actually pretty painful to my nose! Even with silicone nose pads!

I'll keep tweaking these nose pads but I think the solution will be to bend the temple arms so that they let my glasses slide down again.

If anyone has any magic to share, do comment!


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in reply to @effika's post:

this is the equivalent of "have you rebooted them" , but... have you brought em back to your fitter with "this is too tight, and hurts"? maybe they can tweak em just a tad to be best of both worlds?

I have not, because I am one of those people who doesn't want to Bother Anyone. It is something I am working on, so I might set a goal to get myself there later this week.

All the "adjust your glasses" websites are SEO garbage, too, so who knows where these people actually learn how to do it. (It's probably from other people in their own office.)

I was ambivalent about my optometrist for YEARS, but I love the fitter/frame-picker person SO much I never left. she's SO GOOD. Worth stopping by if you can manage it, at least to ask!!