Bifocals.

[piece-itpete]

I haven't felt this old since I heard a song I bought new on the local oldies station.

Wearing my new bifocals. Not what I expected. As I turn my head the top of my vision warps in the direction I'm turning. Very disorienting.

Who needs mushrooms?

Pete

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I haven't felt this old since I heard a song I bought new on the local oldies station.

Wearing my new bifocals. Not what I expected. As I turn my head the top of my vision warps in the direction I'm turning. Very disorienting.

Who needs mushrooms?

Pete

You will soon adjust.

Reminds that I am due for eye tests.

It is good to have yearly test especially when you become an old fart.
You have to look out for glaucoma and cataracts.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

You will soon adjust.

Some of us just don't, while others, like me, need no period of adjustment. I did find that the transition in the lenses is a bit annoying, though, when looking at a computer screen. I now use readers for the computer or for print and another pair of glasses for everything else.

John

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

You will soon adjust.

Reminds that I am due for eye tests.

It is good to have yearly test especially when you become an old fart.
You have to look out for glaucoma and cataracts.

BTDT both lenses are acrylic.

[Tom Joad]

I don't care for bifocals and the progressives are horrible IMO.

I just use separate glasses for reading and distance.

Thats what works best for me.

[one1]

I just found out there are trifocals,damn

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I don't care for bifocals and the progressives are horrible IMO.

I just use separate glasses for reading and distance.

Thats what works best for me.

I got progressives the last time, they sit in a drawer and I use separate pairs of $18 drugstore glasses. People do not realise that when they say they have to grind your lenses that is merely to make them fit the frames. Lenses come in standard diopters.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by one1

I just found out there are trifocals,damn

Tried them once, great if your monitor is at a different distance than you read at.

[barbara]

Prescription glasses are my only option. Without them I have double vision.

[hillbilly]

Originally Posted by one1

I just found out there are trifocals,damn

I had never had glasses before or even seen an eye doctor until 44. I could still see far off ( or thought I could, lol ) but couldn't read, and had to put my chair five feet from the pc desk, and my laptop was simply out of the question. It got to the point I was cussing trying to find tools working on cars because I couldn't read the sizes, and I was leaning back far as I could and finally couldn't see to get a bolt started, wire plug clips, etc. And I was also pressing the back of my head against the rear window in my truck and still couldn't read my gauges, speedo, or buttons on the stereo BUT I could see out front ok. So I went to the eye doctor and she said I wasn't seeing good at all. Not even so good far away and I have Astigmatism in each eye also she said. I got a set of tri's, but they are in progressives. Three levels of correction for each eye without lines. I put them on in the store, and man kind could I see so clearly. Well, until I moved my eyes and then it all went blurr. She said put them back on now and ''leave them on for two weeks like it or not'', so I did. I nearly got drunk trying to walk out of there and to my truck. Been wearing them since November 2013 and must say I cannot do without them. They are the first thing I reach for when I wake up. Everything is clear once they are on my face. Reading is no problem, pc and laptop are both clear, and my tools never looked so good. Once adjusted to them, they are great. It takes time, but your brain really does retrain itself and you just know how to look at stuff without the blurr. Only thing I don't like about them is it is humid here so in the winter they'll fog up the second I walk into the house. And at night I have to be careful meeting cars on the road because their headlights glare. Wish I thought about that at first and got the non glare type. But oh boy yes I love these things after being in great need of them and giving the needed time to adjust to them.

It's weird, I look through the top portion to see everything far, look through the center of them to read the desktop pc, and look through the bottom to read or see tool sizes. Won't kid anyone, it does take getting used to but the only way you can is to leave them on until you do. You'll learn to point your head just right and not move your eyes around to much. Watching tv in a rocking chair took the most getting used to, lol.