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W07VH5 |
I’ve been trying to get used to the progressives and it’s just not working. I asked if they’d refund and they said yes. I figure 2 months is long enough to try and I’m going to be returning them. It’s too much of a compromise to where nothing is ever in focus. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
I got used them relatively easily, but obviously, some people take longer. There are different grinds that put the different zones in slightly different locations. Some trial and error may be needed. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| W07VH5 |
I think I’m done trialing and erroring. These glasses are much better than the Sam’s Club glasses but they’re just not right and I think I’m just going to return them. | |||
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| Member |
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Two sets of glasses works well for many people. You get used to it. | |||
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| W07VH5 |
My issue with that is when I’m wearing my glasses i have to put them on top of my head to read and then i forget they’re there and i fling them into the floor behind me. The lenses seem to handle the abuse but the frames break easily. Also, when driving I can’t see the speedometer or GPS. | |||
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Yep. You can learn new behaviors. Beats progressives and falling down stairs. Instead of putting them on your head, get a chain that lets them rest on your chest. As to speedomenter drive with the traffic. It works for me. | |||
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I believe part of the process is that they need to get the correct focus zones in the right areas of the lease itself | |||
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I think that's why some people have problems with progressive lenses. Everybody's needs are different, and some prescribers just don't take the time to make the lenses work for the individual. I've been wearing progressives for about 30 years now, and luckily they got mine right the first time. It still took a day or two to get used to the change from regular glasses. ------------------------------------------------ "It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell | |||
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| W07VH5 |
And the GPS? The lab that makes the lenses finally got back to the tech and claims that either one of two things is happening. Either my peripheral vision is too good and will not adjust to the narrow area of focus on progressives or there is too much difference between my requirements of distance and reading prescriptions and progressives are not appropriate for me. They are refusing to bump up the reading section. They prescribed a +2.0, my current reading glasses are +2.5 (i can read with them without my eyes getting tired and blurry) but they won't change to that. | |||
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Don't Panic |
One of my pairs of bifocals (well, actually * two of them) are large-lens (Aviator-style) where I put Scotch magic tape on the lens, sat in my car and drew a horizontal line on the tape where the dash started. Then went in with my new prescription and told the optician that the distance prescription went above the line, dashboard-distance below. He figured out the rest and told the lab. The transition is not in the standard location, but they stay in the car and man, are they great for driving!  * I say two, because one is my day-driving pair (polarized sunglasses) and the other is my night driving pair (zero tint, anti-glare coating on the inside (avoid glare from headlights behind me). | |||
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| W07VH5 |
Great idea. | |||
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Seeker of Clarity |
I tried once and bailed. I need to try again, maybe with your place. The days of being able to see outside the car at distance and operate things inside without much visual need are gone. With the advent of touchscreen everything, I need to see both distances with one set of glasses.  | |||
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| W07VH5 |
I've returned the progressive glasses for a refund and I am trying a pair of single-vision safety glasses for work. 3 more weeks of waiting. I'll let you know how they work out. | |||
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Tried them after cataract surgery Nope not for me You gotta aim your head to see thru the right RX, kinda like a scope or its fuzzy time. Too old for that bullshit Back to distance and reader bi-focals, right as rain ________,_____________________________ Guns don't kill people - Alec Baldwin kills people. He's never been a straight shooter. | |||
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| W07VH5 |
Do you have the small square for the readers or is it a line all the way across the lens? | |||
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