My First Pair Of Bifocals - They SUCK

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When you make it to your late forty's without wearing glasses it just sucks to have to start wearing them . I tried so line bi's and I hated them . I went back to cheaters for now . Doc says he hears it all the time from guys like us . I just did a bathroom remodel for a guy who is 88 . He is still in great shape but can hardly see anymore . It's driving him nuts . For what it's worth he said it looked great , even though I am pretty sure he couldn't see much .

davitk

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You'll have to wear them a while before you get used to them davitk. I had to get some eyeball assistance about 5 years ago but I thought I could get by with readers. Since I'm hell on sunglasses anyway, I didn't want to pay $$$ for a scrip that would be too scratched up to see through in a few months.
Even found a vender at the flea market that sold readers for $1 a pair so I got ten bucks worth of x1 magnifiers. Worked pretty good for a year or two but I finally went to the eye doc and was fitted with bifocals. It took a couple of weeks to get used to them but I finally got adjusted.

The worst part was when they eventually did get a few scratches on them, I had to send the frames off to get the lens replaced and found out that the readers didn't work out so good anymore.

Its hell getting old ain't it? Guess its better than the alternative.

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Tinstaafl

Yeah, they suck. But so does being [quite literally] half-blind. Your brain (well, most people's, anyway) is a wonderful machine, and it learns to compensate. Give it at least a week or two before declaring its incompetency.

Seriously, from the BTDT faction, fairly crispy sight beats the heck out of the alternative, no matter how you get there. It sucks having to point your nose directly at anything you want to see clearly. It sucks having to bend your neck 90°+ to see something [clearly] on the ceiling.

But it majorly sucks to have to ask others to see for you, or to screw something up because you had a case of the fuzzies.

davitk

What gets me is the "intermediate" zone of the progressives, which begins just below horizon and increases until it reaches the full bifocal portion of the lens. Everything in that zone is blurry from about three feet on, and I have to tilt my head forward to see clearly.

J F

Is that zone good for computer work? I'm about 32-34" from my monitors and neither reading or distance glasses work, so I'm hoping the progressives (when they arrive) will help in that area.

Wonder what kind of single lens glasses would work for computer work at that distance.

I'm also considering "computer" glasses to help with the eye strain, but haven't researched 'em enough yet to make any decision.

davitk

Yes, they would be perfect for a desk jockey!

J F

cool, 'cause that's me for a few more months.

rservices

I tried the progressive and hated them!
If you went to a chain type store the have a 100% satisfaction policy. Take them back Lencrafters just replaced mine no questions. From what I hear you either love them or can't stand them.

I really only need them for reading and up close work, but I know if I didn't have them on all of the time I would loose them or break them.

Tinstaafl

Well, they have to put that zone somewhere.

If they put it too high, you'd be pointing your chin at the ground to see distance; too low and you'd be tipping your head back to see things "just below the horizon". It is frustrating, even for me at times--and I've worn progressives for years.

If it still drives you absolutely bonkers after a week or two, it couldn't hurt to take them back where you got them and have them checked to make sure they were made right. I had a pair made wrong once, and it constantly felt like they were pulling my eyeballs right out of my head. But if you're not feeling that kind of strain, it's probably just that you need to get used to being an old fart.

neolitic

Still say they make 'em upside down.

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Piffin

I know guy who does more ceiling work at crowns and freizes than anything else, so he had them made that way, with the close focal n the upper.

I've had ttreansitions for two years now and still can't stand them. I am due for new now and won't go that way again.

I got 80% used to them for OTJ, but when I get in my recliner at night, and lean back, I am looking at the TV 10' away through the close focal for 2-3' and it blurs out, so I take the glasses off and squint at the TV

Dave R

They all suck for wearing them at work. I don't know how many times I almost missed a ladder rung or missed stepping on a joist because I was looking down through the magnified section of the glasses.

Piffin

They may have measured you wrong.
When I got mine, and the cute girl taking measurements and notes off my face told me to hold my chin down, I figured she knew what she was talking about, so I did.

Then when I first put them on, in order to drive, I had to tuck my chin in tight againt my throat to tilt head down and see thru the very top of the lense. I went bak in with them when I figured out that cutie had been making assumptions about how God put my head on my neck and trying to make me fit her concept of how I should look. Made them remeasure and regrind them to the way I naturally hold my head.

Now, if a feller were to be gazing down at something interesting, like maybe some cleaveage while getting measured...

thom

Get those little readers at Walgreens, the ones that come in a cigar shaped tube. You can wear them down on your nose and look over the top for non-reading stuff.

I buy several pairs at a time because I scathch them up a lot.


Then go to Harbor Freight. They sell bi-focal safety glasses. Harbor Freight is the only place I've been able to find them. they are cheap throw aways, I buy a half dozen at a time.

neolitic

Good to know, I've been getting
them at Rockler.
Bet the HF ones don't get
scratched up any quicker.

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J F

or maybe some drywall screws...

Piffin

LOL, I C my reputaion precedes me