"Adjusting to bifocals" Topic

Just got home with the new glasses. Chose the progressive lenses and am now wondering why. Fortunately, my actual prescription hasn't changed, I just needed longer arms to read.

Things go queerly in and out of focus.

Does it get better?

I didn't have much problems adjusting to my progressive lenes. Just have to be careful of not tilting the head at the wrong angle. I held off getting mine for a bit as I had the longer arms to read with (38" sleeve). :)

Doesn't getting old suck (not that Neotacha is old).

"OldER" please. Everyone gets older, but no one wants to get "old".

Does it get better?

For most people, yes. But some prefer the old-style bifocals…

Still, even getting old beats the snot out of the alternative.

I'm really only having trouble walking around at the moment, but I utterly refuse to use the bifocals for driving; I just use my old glasses.

Now, I wonder what'll happen when I start to paint?

Now, I wonder what'll happen when I start to paint?

You WILL wear them because you will suddenly be able to see details again.

Yes-very quickly, a few weeks, you won't be able to tell, you'll just naturally adjust the tilt of your head, says Donald wearing progressive Tri~focals.

Of course this starts all sorts of neck problems if you sit at a specific angle too long while say surfing TMP.

enjoy,
D~

Every now and then it seems like I'm going cross-eyed.

And I just noticed there seems to be a tiny +100 sort of etched into the back of the lens. If the light hits it just right I can see it. But not when I'm actually wearing the things.

I end up just pulling the mini close and looking over the glasses totally. The bifocals are just not strong enough to give me the magnification for detail work on minis.

I have bifocals, but what I tend to do is just take my glasses off when I am painting.

Progressive tri-focals here, too. You do adjust. Eventually. Or you just say screw it and never leave the house anymore…

Tried progressive and they drove me nuts. Went to the old-fashioned and love 'em. Too much of the progressive lens is neither fish nor fowl.

We call them variofocus, so I guess progressive focus for you. Had them for years now. The first time was funny, making cartoon-like high steps over every kerb etc., but we both got used to them soon.

Candy just had hers replaced, I'm up in December.

I adjusted easily, hang in there.

I'm in Varifocals but the medium-to-close-up sections aren't too much use to me, as the eye problem I have means that the closer something is, the more out of kilter it looks – much like looking through a raindrop on a window. (I clip magnifying reading lenses over the specs to see closely – it works!)

Persevere, Neo, it will get better. One day you'll realise that you're NOT noticing anything odd!

Incidentally, Lesley, who is short-sighted, paints without her glasses on. She just brings the figures closer to her face to paint them.

Sue.

45+ years of better than perfect vision (10/20), so no help here…

Get out of here PPhalen (oh, wait, you are. Sorry, didn't mean to bring up a sore topic).

If you don't have bad eyesight, you have no idea of the misery it causes.

I need bifocals, but can't afford them, so for anything close up I just take the glasses off.

I offer you no hope at all.

It just gets worse and you will have to get better at coping.

I don't do the bi-focals. I leave pairs of glasses scattered about the house and office for the task intended. I also have glasses in the car for some kinds of driving.

When I used to ref basketball I noted there was a zone (just short of the length of the court) where it could not read the score board or the numbers on the back of the players jerseys. Now that was a major bummer when that started.

I once quipped, I wonder which pair of glasses I should wear, the near vision correctors or the length of the court glasses? My daughter replied, you don't need the near vision glasses dad, if anything happens right in front of you, everyone in the crowd sees it better than you do and they will let you know about it!

mjc

Sorry, but "better than perfect" simply means imperfect in the other direction. But enjoy it while you can; your time is coming!

Michael does the same thing Lesley does. He also takes them off to read, so I'm not sure why he even has them.

And why are all the new frames rectangular? And ugly. I didn't know they made so many ugly fru-fru frames. At least, not with serious intent…

I'm still wearing single vision specs myself. Just had the frames replaced,since the old frames broke. Saved the lenses,and they still work OK for me.