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Good news here.. I had a cataract removed this week and the other one will be removed next week and will no longer need bifocals of any kind! (I'm going to miss them I am sure). I no longer need glasses for far away vision, the eye that was done this week has 20/20 vision for distance.. I will only need glasses for reading when done..
I'm two hours into my new progressive lenses and just about ready to take the darn things back. Costco has a two week free exchange if I can't get use to them. But they seem really, really weird to me and I don't like them at all so far.
Seems like I have to be looking specifically at a certain spot, through an exact portion of the lense, and everything above and to the side of my focal point is blurry. Even reading what I am typiing here - I can't just move my eyes along a sentence, I have to move my entire head and look directly through the same part of the lense otherwise the sentence two or three words to the right or left looks fuzzy.
Questions:
1) Does it stay this way or do your eyes adjust in some way that become more tolerable?
2) If eyes do adjust, about how long should I give it before I give up and go back to regular bifocal lenses?
Thanks
Steve
I've had mine for about a month. I was very surprised to go from single lenses to progressive trifocals. My wife, on the other hand, was very amused and has enjoyed referring to me as the "Old Man."
Mine really bugged me for a couple days. I really disliked what they did to my peripheral vision. But I quickly became accustomed to moving my head up & down, and looking more directly at things.
I still have not acclimated to progressives. Have switched frames and switched to the highest quality lens, had my eyes retested, the whole nine yards. My vision stinks compared to before, but I've become use to it, though not happy with it.
The one thing I haven't tried is a different eye doctor and a different lens maker. I've thought of that. I've also thought of reverting to bifocals and a separate set of computer glasses. But the Costco people told me that eventually, perhaps within 5 years, bifocals will be phased out and almost everyone will wear progressives, so it would be better for me to just get use to it.
But just yesterday, as I realized I couldn't read the road signs very well again, I thought about this very topic and wondered if I should get reexamined and try a different vendor.
You know - WHY won't they do monovision with eyeglasses? I actually was naturally "monovision" most of my life as I was nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in another and the doctor said that my brain managed it [yes, I have no true 3D that way but you compensate for that as well] and felt I could easily adjust but nobody would do it.
I'm two hours into my new progressive lenses and just about ready to take the darn things back. Costco has a two week free exchange if I can't get use to them. But they seem really, really weird to me and I don't like them at all so far.
Seems like I have to be looking specifically at a certain spot, through an exact portion of the lense, and everything above and to the side of my focal point is blurry. Even reading what I am typiing here - I can't just move my eyes along a sentence, I have to move my entire head and look directly through the same part of the lense otherwise the sentence two or three words to the right or left looks fuzzy.
Questions:
1) Does it stay this way or do your eyes adjust in some way that become more tolerable?
2) If eyes do adjust, about how long should I give it before I give up and go back to regular bifocal lenses?
Thanks
Steve
I've worn progressives for years and love them...I will tell you this...if they don't measure the seg height (how high the bifocal portion is in the lense itself) correctly they will drive you nuts!
My first pair were measured correctly and they were wonderful from the minute I put them on. The last couple of pairs that I've gotten were measured incorrectly and I had to take them back and have them remade. But once that was corrected they were great!
If you are having problems, keep going back to get them adjusted. However, there are always some people who just cannot adjust to this and will have to have a lined bifocal. It really does take some getting used to, especially if you are prone to motion sickness.
I still have not acclimated to progressives. Have switched frames and switched to the highest quality lens, had my eyes retested, the whole nine yards. My vision stinks compared to before, but I've become use to it, though not happy with it.
The one thing I haven't tried is a different eye doctor and a different lens maker. I've thought of that. I've also thought of reverting to bifocals and a separate set of computer glasses. But the Costco people told me that eventually, perhaps within 5 years, bifocals will be phased out and almost everyone will wear progressives, so it would be better for me to just get use to it.
But just yesterday, as I realized I couldn't read the road signs very well again, I thought about this very topic and wondered if I should get reexamined and try a different vendor.
Steve
Well, I will say this...it has been my husband's and my experience (and we both wear progressives) that all eye doctors are NOT created equal. IMO, prescribing progressives a bit of an art rather than a precise science if that makes sense. Just saying...might be worth a try to use someone else.
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