Eye Doctors, please read! I picked up my eyeglasses today and my vision is improved, but not 20/20.?

My right eye is corrected to 20/20, but my left is only to 20/30. They checked the prescription on the lenses and they are correct. The doctor said my left eye may need "Stimulation" to improve. He explained that this meant my brain had basically been shutting off the images from my left eye because my right eye was much stronger for so long and with my new glasses, "signals" from both eyes should be sent to the brain and I will be corrected to 20/20 after wearing them for a while. Is this something other new glasses wearers go through?

My prescription in both eyes is not very high I don't think, .75 in my right and 2.00 in the left. (For distance) I also have astigmatism in the left eye. If it makes a difference, I am 22 years old and this is my FIRST pair of glasses ever.

Thanks!

Yes, with that history and that difference between the two eyes, that's not an unlikely finding.
If you have some binocular vision, there's a fair chance (no promise) that the vision in the left eye will "wake up" to a degree (unpredictable) in the next six months.

Given how little it's been a problem to you for the last 20 years, extensive wearing of an eye-patch on the better eye in a late attempt to force the left eye to catch-up is almost certainly an over-the-top approach.

Optometrist, retired.

all the eye doctors are at work, you need a consultation first
this screams "refractive amblyopia" to me. especially if its +0.75 and +2.00 (vs -0.75 and -2.00)

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions...

anyone with a difference in refractive error between the R and L eyes can develop amblyopia, or poor development of the visual system. its really common.

if you're 22 and you're best-corrected 20/30 in one eye...and with that Rx...i presonaly kind of doubt you'll ever be 20/20 in that eye.

thats no big deal. some people just arent 20/20.

a second opinion is never a bad idea, but given the info you just posted...sounds like probable refractive amblyopia to me...
optometrist
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I went through the same thing when I first got mine in March. Some things looked better but others just looked odd. I called my opt. and they said that it would just take time. Slowly it started to working and i see just fine with my glasses now. My prescription is pretty close to yours and have a stigmatism too. I was told the exact same thing - that the one eye had been taking up the slack for other for so long it would eventually work out.