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1-2 weeks. I’ve gotten one prescription for “everyday glasses” that never took. I basically suffered dizziness and nausea whenever I wore them.

I went back to the glasses place and got a weaker prescription.

Optometry is an art. They don’t always get it right.

I’m 43 and I just got my first pair about 4 months ago. It took me about 2 weeks to get used to them but it still throws me off a little now and then. I apparently had a number of vision issues I had just been stubbornly dealing with without realizing it lol I don’t get splitting headaches every day now so I call it a win

I started needing glasses when I was 13. I couldn’t see the writing on the chalkboard any more. My eyes have slowly gotten worse since then and nowadays I need them all the time. It’s still an adjustment every time I get a new pair, but you get used to it real quick

Started at 3. Now 48. Contacts since 13. Prescription varies, but somewhere around -7.0 to -8.0 in each eye. Contacts give more natural vision, but took a bit to get used to. I have been able to touch my eye without blinking for 20+ years. Doc is now telling me to add reading glasses to my contacts. Contacts will reduce the headaches, but will take some time to get used to. Good luck!

So I didn’t get nausea when I first got glasses (that I remember at least, I had some as a child for a bit for other reasons and then in my late teens got them for short-sightedness) but I have 2 pairs - one I use for computers/reading/anything close-by (which, since I don’t bother changing them for my commute, is most of the time - and no I’m not in a car and I can see everything fine anyway, just distant text is hard) and one pair that fully corrects my vision that I use otherwise. When I’ve gone a while without using the stronger pair, I always get some nausea for a bit after putting them on, but it goes away after a few hours, and if I wear that pair for a few days, it stops happening completely. I think you’ll get used to it. I also have one eye with a much stronger defict than the other, and I think that might be related since correcting that probably affects depth perception.

I was around 25, it took me a month or two but I didn’t have any nausea issues. I was at the point where my eyes were getting super blurry at the end of the day.

I wore glasses when I was a kid, maybe ages 7-10, but stopped wearing them because I kept losing or breaking them and I guess my parents decided that if the 10 year old says he can see fine the optometry results don’t matter that much. Started wearing them again when I was 19 and have been wearing them ever since. The only “getting used to” was everything being so much more clear and vivid, and a tiny bit of eye strain.

If you’re having these issues you should definitely insist on seeing someone

I’ve worn glasses about sixteen hours a day my entire adult life. Got my first pair around 10. Acclimating took maybe four or five days of minor discomfort. The improved vision was incredible and as a child I had child durability, so I didn’t mind the discomfort. I vividly remember how strange it felt for air to hit my face with glasses on while walking or running.

Every time I get a major prescription update it takes two or three days to feel “right”. Until then I have some disorientation. I would expect an adult who hasn’t consistently worn glasses to feel that more keenly.

If I had continued eye strain after three days of constant and consistent wear, I would call the optometrist. If it lasted a week and the optometrist was blowing me off I’d consider my options. Some prescriptions are better than others. I could tell you exactly when I got my best prescription, it was life changing. I didn’t know people could see like that. I’ve never had a “bad” prescription to the best of my knowledge, every time I’ve updated it has been an improvement.

55m here.

I’m farsighted and started to need glasses for close up around the age of 36. Never really had to get use to them per se as I always had non-prescription sunglasses anyway.

I became a full time glasses wearer around the age of 40. At the age of 45 I became a progressive lens wearer and those took me about 2 full weeks to get use to. So it’s been about 10 years that I’ve worn progressives and my script has changed 4 times. It takes me a couple of days to get used to a new script.

I’m also legally blind in my right eye. It sees just well enough that it tracks with my left eye. One optometrist insisted on giving me 1/2 strength script for my right eye and I went along with it. It took me weeks to get used to it as I’m not used to having binocular vision of any kind, not to mention the near Coke bottle look to the lens. 3D movies are almost and absolute no go for me, because they make me ill. My current glasses have a script on the right lens, but it’s not nearly as strong.

I’ve had them since third grade, but switched to contacts after high school.

I can’t see a thing without them. This is not an exaggeration: hold your phone the closet you possibly can to your face until you have to close one eye to read it. That’s about as far as I can see in focus without glasses.

I never had the experience you are describing. The closest I got was when I got a flexiframe that couldn’t be adjusted by hand - because that’s the whole point of those - and the nose bridge was set such that the edges of the lenses were in a different spot than I was used to. This resulted in the world swirling in a dizzying way when I moved my head because my peripheral vision was adjusting to the difference. That process took about a week, I think.

I have also found that it hurts my eyes to try to wear glasses inconsistently. For me I need to wear them all the time, or not at all. So if you are being inconsistent you may be making it difficult for your eyes to get used to focusing differently.

It might be worth talking with your optometrist though, in case something isn’t quite right. (S)he can test the lenses and verify the lenses are right - they could be wrong, and that would be a problem for sure.

I had a similar situation as you. I got a prescription later in life in my late 20s after never wearing glasses before. One eye had a stronger prescription than the other.

It took me about 5 days of daily wear to fully acclimate to the prescription. Each day got better than the last, but I definitely felt like you are describing on day 1.

It isn’t a fun process but it will also feel better and your eyes will feel much less strained with the prescription, so it is ultimately worth it.

I first got glasses around 7 or 8 years old. I think I adapted pretty quickly, because I don’t recall ever having any problems adjusting.

It wasn’t untilI was about 19 or 20 that I started to get headaches and motion sickness, after my prescription took a significant update. I think just the shape of the glasses I had at the time, combined with the much stronger prescription, was causing a fish-eye sort of effect for me and was making me nauseated, so I switched to contact lenses and have been wearing those ever since. I’ve not worn actual glasses for about 20 years now.

I definitely recommend trying out contacts, especially for the nausea.

I think I was 10. The bridge made my nose hurt and I think I got headaches for a few days from it or the lenses themselves. Changing frames causes some discomfort for a day or two.

Now I can wear glasses for over 24 hours straight without issue.

My vision wasn’t that bad from what I recall, but now I am at a -5.50 or something. I wear contacts when I leave the house and greatly prefer them, especially the transitions contacts that tint like sunglasses in sunlight. Seriously, the transitions contacts are glorious with my light sensitivity and it makes colors really “pop”.