It has been....umm... lets just say challenging to get adjusted to these things. Having to get used to turning and lifting my head instead of just my eyes has been the most difficult. Just wondering how long it takes to get use to them.
Any other old guys wear progressive lenses?
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Been wearing them for probably 10 years. Still can’t get used to it. I’ve just accepted that I am old and can’t see crap, or hear crap either. Hopefully you can adjust better than me.
Nope. Just conservative lenses for me.
I tried the progressive lenses a few years back said f that. Went to bifocal contact lenses. It took a while getting used to putting them in & out as I had never had contacts before. However, love them now.
Been wearing them for about 15 years. It didn't take long to adjust to them, but they were my first pair of eyeglasses, except for readers. I got them because we had to wear safety glasses at work, and it was aggravating swapping out my safety glasses with readers when I needed to read something. My employer paid for the progressive lens for the safety glasses and I liked them enough that I bought a pair for everyday use too.
Presume you're talking glasses. Have had them 15-20 years. I don't even think about them, no issue. Was minimal getting used to them. The transition is mindless for me. Now I'm nearsighted & looking down to read means less strength, like half of distance strength. Not saying it wouldn't be more difficult for others.
Might be that the transition starts too high or low. I'd err on the side of understrength vs. over.
Might be that the transition starts too high or low. I'd err on the side of understrength vs. over.
I wear them. It took some getting used to wearing them while using my laptop. About a year before I ditched the readers. Otherwise wearing them was only a matter of days to get used to.
Just got some and hate them. I hope I get used to them soon because they cost a ton. So far they are terrible for everything but the phone.
Got them many years ago and never had a problem getting adjusted to them.
I just wear one contact in my dominant eye and can see both far and near. It’s amazing how fast my eyes adjust and since I’m a tight *** I save 50% on contacts!
I really just need readers but I don't want to carry them around all the time for the few times a day I need them. The top portion of the glasses have basically no strength.
If you're near-sighted like me & need distance glasses, when you get old you still need cheaters. But instead, they just reduce the distance strength in the lower part of the lens, hence progressives. My lower reduced strength lens is still too much at times & I just put the glasses up & read/view w/o any lens. My vision is great for 1-2' from nose.
Mine is just the opposite. I can see great from about 2 feet and further but looking at my phone and wristwatch requires stretching my arm like Stretch Armstrong.
Worn progressive lenses for a few years. The only compliant I get is on video meetings is that everybody is looking up under my nose on the screen. They work fine for me driving and reading and both long/short distance 
Worn them for years, never had any problem getting used to them. Far-sighted with astigmatism. Only adjustment I had to make initially was, while reading, had to keep my head up just a bit further. Other than that, I had a much harder time adjusting to not being able to focus without my glasses than anything the progressive lenses did when I wore them.
Been wearing for about 2 years, just got a second pair. The "swimming" effect takes a few days to get used to (everything in your vision moving as you move your head), but I can't even detect that any more.
I did have to get a pneumatic stand for my monitor at work and lower it all the way down to where the bottom of the monitor sits on my desk, as I was getting terrible neck strain from looking upward to see my monitor in the lower part of the lens.
But the cool part is, I paid $30 for mine, no insurance, straight up, including shipping.
I did have to get a pneumatic stand for my monitor at work and lower it all the way down to where the bottom of the monitor sits on my desk, as I was getting terrible neck strain from looking upward to see my monitor in the lower part of the lens.
But the cool part is, I paid $30 for mine, no insurance, straight up, including shipping.
Hated them at first but gotten used to them. It sucked when I moved my eyes around in most any direction and things got blurry. I had to get used to turning my head to look at most things. Seems like there is such a small area where things are clear.
There's also not much to the readers part. Had to raise my head up slightly and lower eyes back down to hit the sweet spot. Maybe if you chose glasses with larger lenses it would be easier right away, but I have the style that aren't as tall and that's a lot to squeeze into a smaller space.
There's also not much to the readers part. Had to raise my head up slightly and lower eyes back down to hit the sweet spot. Maybe if you chose glasses with larger lenses it would be easier right away, but I have the style that aren't as tall and that's a lot to squeeze into a smaller space.
Yeah that has been the difficult part but I did get a larger frame than my reading glasses were. I paid extra to get the Elixir X series lenses which are supposed to have a bigger area but it's still pretty small.Hated them at first but gotten used to them. It sucked when I moved my eyes around in most any direction and things got blurry. I had to get used to turning my head to look at most things. Seems like there is such a small area where things are clear.
There's also not much to the readers part. Had to raise my head up slightly and lower eyes back down to hit the sweet spot. Maybe if you chose glasses with larger lenses it would be easier right away, but I have the style that aren't as tall and that's a lot to squeeze into a smaller space.
My aviator glasses style from the 90's would be perfect for it. Unfortunately I'm not a big fan of the bigger frames these days.
I use the progressives when out and about, especially driving. I can see the road signs AND the gauges! I use a dedicated "reading" pair when working. It's just easier and the screens are like 2 feet away, anyway.
I have been wearing them for years......try nailing crown molding with the damn things..........when I started wearing glasses I just put them on and went on my way........back then I worked 60-80 hrs a week......I didn't have time to get used to them.........
Interesting you should say this, I picked up a second pair of progressives a month or two ago, as the ones I have now have started losing their coating which caused hotspots on the lenses. However, the new pair was an XL size frame and the lenses were bigger than my old pair. And because the lenses were bigger, the progressive lenses on the new pair required a larger "range of motion" to be able to see things close up, which caused my neck to hurt. So there is a benefit to having smaller glasses with progressive lenses.
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Now, they aren't super-duper high quality, but when glasses become darn near disposable, like less than $20 a pair, get multiple pairs just in case and you still come out way ahead of paying $500 a pair from these traditional places that just send your order to some manufacturing facility in China anyway. And if you accidentally break or lose your glasses, no big deal, they were $20, get yourself another pair.
Fark the Luxottica monopoly and their world control of the eyeglass market and their 1000% markups.
Edit: Zenni and Coastal are 2 other online direct eyeglass sellers that are popular and much less expensive than traditional optical stores.
Now, they aren't super-duper high quality, but when glasses become darn near disposable, like less than $20 a pair, get multiple pairs just in case and you still come out way ahead of paying $500 a pair from these traditional places that just send your order to some manufacturing facility in China anyway. And if you accidentally break or lose your glasses, no big deal, they were $20, get yourself another pair.
Fark the Luxottica monopoly and their world control of the eyeglass market and their 1000% markups.
Edit: Zenni and Coastal are 2 other online direct eyeglass sellers that are popular and much less expensive than traditional optical stores.
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