Calling all four-eyes!

Stupid question but... is it normal to get a little nauseous when you first start wearing corrective glasses? Clarity, etc is great, but I feel something akin to motion sickness- please God tell me that it'll go away...

yeah, when I get a new prescription its always hard to get adjusted too... I have experienced nausea and horrible headaches but not as extreme as motion sickness…
I suggest that you wear your glasses a couple hours a day, and then take them off and as you get use to them you can keep them on longer…. Like break your eyes into it…

I hope you feel better…

It happens to me also - not nausea but kind of like my equalibrum (sp?) is off. Especially when I walk down or up stairs.

Yeah, I don't think that it's the straight ahead that's the problem, it's the bending around the edges... like the fact that the floor looks like it's about 8 inches higher when I'm looking straight ahead! I know that I'm gonna trip over something sooner rather than later...

But it's good to know that it gets better! Thanks- I'll wear'em when I'm out and about and see how quickly I can get it over with!

Varilux type glasses really accentuate the "fishbowl" effect. I could never get used to mine and switched back to normal bi-focals, but everyone says to give new glasses a week to adjust to.

If you're not used to wearing glasses, or if you switch to a new pair of glasses, there's always an adjustment period. Part of it is about distortion around the edges. The other issue is that depending on how close the lenses are to your face (which is different with every pair), parallax can become an issue (the amount that the background shifts with respect to the foreground when turning). See here for a better understanding of why this occurs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax
Look at the first figure in that entry and picture what happens with the angle between your eye and the object in the foreground when you shift the lens forward a little. It puts new objects in the background! This doesn't happen with contact lenses because they're right up against your eyeballs.
After a few days of wearing new glasses, your brain automatically adjusts to this and it won't bother you anymore (although the peripheral distortion still might).

How did I know that I could count on Carnivore for the scientific breakdown?

yeah you'll get use to it. takes time.