Hmm. When I was going through old glasses I was amazed at how bad they were scratched and pitted from fire stuff.
My present plastic ones aren’t like new but they’re pretty good compared. I guess I’d better stick with this eyeglass place.
It has been months and I am still adjuesting. I have very bad eyesight – sometimes I can’t event find where my glasses are in the AM. I knew the progressives would make me crazy despite everyont trying to talk me into them. I ended up with these little circle bifocals that are located way at the bottom. It give me plenty of room to see and when I need to see the close up . . . I just find my little bifocal. I found I hated reading with them, so off I went and got a pair of my reading prescriptions. I do hate that I couldn’t get this type in the ultra thin lens. And don’t really like my new glasses . . .
I’ve been wearing bifocals for about 12 years now. They work fine most of the time, but I do have issues occasionally. For one thing, they don’t work at all when I’m playing piano or organ. I had to get a special prescription for that, because neither of the prescriptions on my bifocals worked.
Sometimes, if I knit while wearing my bifocals, then look up at the room, things get fuzzy. So, I usually just take off my glasses if that happens. I’m still trying to work that out with my eye doctor.
What about dizziness with bi-focals? I’m to the point of getting them. I have cheaters all over the place, but get tired of digging for them or patting my head. lol.
If I look up to quickly with my drug store glasses, I get sort of dizzy and my vision takes a few seconds to adjust.
Would bifocals do the same thing? I worry about that.
Check with your eye doctor to get the right prescription. I’m one of the unlucky ones that cannot use the readers in the pharmacy. My vision is completely different in both eyes.
When I got my bifocals for the first time, I had trouble with dizziness and nausea. They adjusted the angle of the lens, and everything was fine after that. No more problems.
I’ve had no problems at all with dizziness with these new bi-focals…I think I’ve finally figured out what was troubling me though…I tend to sit too closely to my computer monitor! I’m guessing that with my older glasses (not bi-focals) the prescription in them was just a tiny bit weaker and sitting where I normally do was ok. Now, with my new bi-focal glasses the computer monitor seems to be just a bit out of focus, but if I sit back away a little more the monitor is definitely in focus.
It’s just a learning thing, figuring out the how’s and where’s and such. Oh, stairs…they don’t seem to me to be a problem either. When I look down as I normally would I can see the stairs with just a bit of fuzziness, no image jumping or anything.
I really think as I get more and more used to bi-focals I’ll learn to love them. At least now I can read a book without first pulling my glasses down to the end of my nose! LOL!
Debra in NC
I returned my progressives last week and am having a good pair of prescription readers made for now. Maybe, I will try them again in a couple of years. For now, I can’t deal with the nausea, blurriness and only seeing about 3 inches or so without moving me head. I still do good with readers, just will have to treat them more like permanent glasses and quit leaving them all over the place.
I found that the size of the lens with the progressives made a big difference for me. I started with large oversize frames figuring I would be able to see more with more lens. I found that I had to tip my head so much to look through various parts of the lens to get the right focal point and had difficulty going down stairs. I now wear a much smaller frame and find that I don’t often have to move my head to get the right focus.
I generally have a week to 10 days adjustment period to a new prescription and then have no more problems.
My Bifocal Glasses Experience:
Recently, I decided to get myself a new pair of glasses. My main concern was improving my vision
for long distances-especially for driving and outdoor activities. Although I can read without any visual
aid, I tend to experience eye strain after reading for extended periods. So, after some consideration,
I went for bifocal lenses, thinking they would give me the best of both worlds.
However, once I started using them, I noticed something unexpected. While they made reading
much more comfortable, I felt uneasy when looking at distant objects. Things didn’t seem as clear as
I had hoped, and I found myself straining more than before. This left me feeling quite frustrated and
honestly, a bit worried that I had made the wrong choice.
After a few days of trying to adjust, I decided to use my new bifocal glasses exclusively for reading.
Since they significantly reduced my eye fatigue during long reading sessions, they served that
purpose really well. But for distance vision and driving, I plan to get a separate pair designed
specifically for those needs.
This experience taught me something valuable: one pair of glasses might not meet all your vision
requirements, and that’s okay. If you’re facing similar issues-especially if your needs differ for
reading and distance-consider investing in two specialized pairs. It might seem like an extra step,
but your comfort and eye health are absolutely worth it.
I just went to bifocals instead of reading glasses only. The prescription for distance was fine. But I do better with my over-the-counter readers for anything close. I just saw the optometrist (I think - not an MD, right?) today & they are making me a new pair with more magnification on the lower part. (6x - like my readers.). Im 77 so I guess I cant expect to see as well as before, but 6x? Gasp.
I’ve worn glasses since I was a kid. When I first tried bifocals they made me sick and I had to go back to my old glasses. Eventually it got bad enough that I tried the no-line kind and I love them. No more taking my glasses off to read or do close up work. I only gave in when I could no longer read the speedometer. I did wear contacts for a short while but my eyes didn’t like them. I had to have reading glasses to wear with them thanks to eye strain and headaches but the ones from the drug store were too strong so the doctor made me a prescription pair. He said he’d never seen anyone who noticed such small differences before. When I worked inputting library records into a data base I had a pair of glasses just for that - I wasn’t yet willing to try bifocals again. I’m not quite 70 yet.
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It was a shock to me when I needed glasses in my mid 20s for detailed work but the optician said most people wouldn’t have noticed the very slight change in focus I had and it was down to my work and hobbies which was all vision heavy.
Now (mid 50s) I have varifocals. Not having to change to different reading glasses during everyday life is a bonus but i have seperate readers I can use too. I chose to get those made specifically for reading in bed as the angle of the varifocals is awkward when laying down. Varifocals can cause some neck pain and awkward positioning depending what you spend a lot of time doing.
I know people who don’t wear any glasses at all and they just put up with not seeing things, they offen don’t even notice that they don’t see things.
Fluffy Yarn, you have done exeptionally well to get to 77 with just reading glasses. I hope the new glasses work out well for you.
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I tried varifocals - walked into eye height obstacles & had several injuries / fell down stairs. Then tried bifocals and adapted immediately. Great for knitting & simultaneously watching TV/talking with family, but definitely not for walking down stairs or slopes. I have now reverted to single lenses for stairs/ outside - much safer