!*%$# bifocals...new lenses. weigh in opinion

All,

The new lenses I've bought are a real pain. Progressive? I think not. Got a headache to boot.

I think I need another pair with the "hard" line of strength.

Just a rant, I guess. I can't afford another new lens for these frames right now.

I wish I'd have given the hard-visible line lenses more of a chance.

D.
 
It some time to get used to mine. I would never go the line route now. If it don't get better it might also be a mistake. Talk to the doc.
 
I never could get used to progressive lenses. On the other hand, my wife gets along great with them.

Guess it's all in what works for ya.
 
I empathize with your bifocal problems. When I got bifocals, I first tried the progressive lenses and they instantly made me sick (dizzy). I swapped for hard lines, and they also made me dizzy if I look from close-up (e.g., reading) to farther away (e.g., television). I had to give up on both kinds and now create my own bifocals by tipping my regular glasses just right. For really close work, I take off my glasses and can see perfectly. But I wish the bifocals would work for me. (The problem is that I get motion sickness from all kinds of things that normal folks don't even notice.) I wish you better luck. Most people seem OK after an adjustment period.
 
Love my Progressives. after wearing them for awhile. It's easier when I go up or down the stairs...and I think there's like 27 gradients from top to bottom. I think you'll like them after you wear them for awhile.
 
dennis min,
I'd give it some time. Took me a while to get used to them. Now, after cataract surgery and implants, I still wear glasses for reading and close work and even then, it's a pain to get the right distance for a computer screen or labels on equipment. Eye doctor said he could set me up with clear lenses on top with a progressive bi-focal. Not sure if I want to go that route.
 
I never had the progressive lenses but have the hard line trifocal lenses. They gave me problems at first but my neck adjusts the head without me knowing it any more. I would think it would work that way on the progressive in time. One exception is lining the tractor drawbar up to an implement. Total PIA.
 
I couldn't get accustomed to the progressive lenses. It seemed like I had to look directly at what I wanted to see, ( limited side vision).
The eye Doc. said it was because of the progressive lenses. Now I wear the line bifocals.
 
Take them back and have them checked. I tried some years ago. Couldn't see with them. Come to find out they made them wrong and they would not line up so you could see.
 
Just what my Idoc told me, when I first needed 'em: If you have never worn hardline bifocals, buy the progresives! That's what I did, and I have no headaches, and no complaints. If you wear the progressives long enough, and stick with them, your eyes may adjust. Otherwise, you are stick with the hard lines!
 
It somewhat depends on weather you are near sighted or far sighted & if you have been wearing bifocal lenses already. Anyone who can take their glasses off and see better close up is near sighted. That is the opposite of me. I can see at a distance without glasses but not clearly. Up close, I can't read the Farmall on the side of my H tractor.

I have worn trifocals for over thirty years now. Started out with bifocals and graduated to tri focals. All hard line style.

I got the brilliant idea about twenty years ago that progressive would work better. I thought, then I can just raise or lower my head slightly and get the perfect focus at those close ranges. What I found out right away was that the progressive change is also horizontal as well as vertical. In other words, I had to move my head side to side to maintain focus even when reading a line in a book. So, with side to side, up and down it was just more difficult. The actual focal spot was just too small. This of course varies with how strong the correction you need. Mine are on the higher end of strength. I gave up and got my older hard line tri foculs style back. I had a deal with the optometrist, because the progressive cost more, they would not charge me anything if I wanted to go back to hard lines.

They had warned me that it is difficult for someone to change to progressive if they are accustomed to hard lines.

Wife has progressive, only a slight correction in hers but I still see her moving her head trying for that sweet spot. Her problem is double vision and has the full five prizms in each lens. It still does not correct it except at specific distances. Needless to say, she does not drive anymore. (Maybe down to the other end of the farm to pick me up when I am pheasant hunting, closing one eye).
 
Give it a few days. If you continue to have problems, take them back. It is fairly common to get glasses where the prescription wasn't properly ground.
 
A couple days should be enough time to adjust. I couldn't see out of my first prog. bifocals, took them back after a couple months, they made a mistake. Went to a real good although expensive eye dr. for about 3 sets of glasses and they were perfect.
Thought I'd try Shoko for the next set and save some money, pure junk, ya get what you pay for.
 
Most places will take back their lenses within 30 days and try to make it right with you. I too headaches with progressives. Even bi-focals wouldn't work for me. What I ended up doing is find the smallest lense so I could easily look below and over them. I'm near-sighted, which most people are. I can see better up close up with no correction. So I found the smallest lenses possible, went to car to see if I could look under them and see instrument panel. The heck with bi-focals and progressives.

Hope this helps.
George
 
Tried the progressive lenses. Couldn't wear them. I have short arm syndrome. Distance is ok. Not enough peripheral vision. Drive truck or at night, just wouldn't work. Took them back and got lined bifocals and some cash back. Tried for 2 weeks.
 
My eye doctor would not put me into progressive lens because he said progressive lens are known to mess up your peripheral vision. He put me in bi-focals which were ok for distance and close up but had trouble reading gauges in dash of semi tractor. I went back to eye doctor and he put me in tri-focals. I have been in tri-focals for 10 + years and had no peoblems learning how to use them. I wear aviator style glasses with transition lens ( self darkening lens).
 
Some people can wear the progressives & some can't. I tried them years ago when I first needed bi focals. Didn't want the old folks glasses with a line across the lenses so I spent an extra hundred for the others. I could see straight ahead through a pencil sized dot and that was it. Doc said give it two weeks so I had the headache, neckache and was pert near blind for those two weeks. Taking them back and trading for lined bi focals was the best hundred bucks I ever lost.
 
I tried those once.....once. No could see. I took them back and the folks exchanged them for the lined ones at no charge. A few years later I went to lined tri-focals with good results.
 
I got some progressives. Useless. I think they got the centers off to the inside by about a 1/4". If I cock my head and look sideways a little they're okay in the left eye, but otherwise it's awful. Dollar Store reading glasses are the answer for me.
 
I'm on my second pair of progressive lens. Been wearing them bout 10 years. It was an adjustment when I first put them on but I got used to them after a little while. Coworker went back to the lined bifocals. Said he was stumbling around like a drunk.
 
When I got mine it seemed there was a spot that I could see clearly and all around that focused spot everything was blurry. When I read anything I had to constantly move my head so that the spot that was in focus was on the words that I was trying to read. I now have two pair, one for reading and the other for distance / driving.
 
I tried progressive bifocals and hated them. Part of the problem may be there was no explaination of how to use them or what to expect, so I never learned to use them. When the progessives didn't work for me I got mad, went to a different eye doctor and got lined bifocals. I probably should have gone back to the first doctor and had them adjusted, had them replaced, or had them teach me how to use them.

I save my old single lens reading glasses for use as computer glasses. As my eyes change the focal length of the old glasses grows closer to my arms length, they become perfect for seeing my desktop computer screen which is an arms length away.
 
Tried them once, never again. Having to move your head side to side to read a book is kind of like moving your lips, IMHO. Had lined bifocals for awhile, but had to take them off and put on reading glasses for the computer. Eventually went to lined tri-focals- love them.

In other news, its about time to go to optometrist for exam and new glasses. Am on Medicare now, and my Advantage plan requires me to get a referral from primary care physician to go to any "specialist", including the optometrist! How silly is that? I think its so primary care guy can get an office conference fee and copay- but mine just lets us call in for a referral, when its obviously out of his line of work.
 
i have a pair i wore for 6 months and threw in a drawer, there simply no good, i can see them working for a office cubicle mole who has the same relitive position and distance from their work all day, but for a active person you spend more time trying to actually see something in focus than its worth i got just my distance prescription in a new set and it works fine if what im looking at is within 2 feet like reading i just take the glasses off and get even closer to read it
 
My wife had a pair like that she just couldn't use them. She went back to the optometrist and he made her a different pair that she could use, no extra charge. Won't hurt to ask the doctor.
 
We get our glasses off the Internet from Zenni Optical. You can select your frames and you need the measurement between your eyeballs along with your latest eye prescription. Cost for mine were about $60.00. I've used them for 2 years since my eyes didn't change. New eye exam scheduled for Jan 15th. Had to cancel the exam on Jan 3rd due to snow fall. Eye exam is $10.00.
My wife has to have cataract surgery either later this month or in Feb. Hal
 
Presbyopes (arms too short) here, with trifocals. Tried, and didn't like the progressive lenses. The optometrists replace them with conventional lenses for no additional charge. So I [u:6292a21252]only[/u:6292a21252] lost $75 on the deal.
 

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