Eyeglass question (bifocals?)

[LBrown59]

Nah, I have been wearing since 9th grade...

My wife has worn glasses since 8th grade.

 

[RobertN]

I started in 2nd grade, but didn't wear them like I should have. By high school, I had too...

My wife has worn glasses since 8th grade.

 

[QRTRHRS]

I had a bad three week bout with the German measles when I was in the 3rd grade. Though I was kept in a dark room, by fifth grade I needed glasses for distance. I did not try contacts until around 30. For me, contacts were a love/hate relationship due to dry eyes. Around 40, I had to start using reading glasses but when I could no read a road map, I decided it was time to dump the contacts.

I went with no line bifocals immediately and only ever had problems with one doctor who could not get my lenses right. Which leads me to state something I have not yet picked up on. Besides that one bad incident with a bad prescription, I have had problems with cut rate eye wear shops either with frames that did not or could not be made to fit correctly or improper placement of the bifocal cutoff.

Having been diagnosed as a candidate for gloucoma, I get a check up every six months by an eye surgeon. Medical pays for my checkups rather than my regular eye coverage though new glasses are still under eye care.

 

[MikeBurr]

I've worn glasses all my life and should be using tri-focus lens, but I use line bi-focals with out problems. One thing I did do was have the closeup part of the bi-focal put on the top part of the lens. This, for me, works great. I use the computer a lot and the doctor adjusted the closeup part so the computer screen is in focus at about arms length. No problems going up/down stairs. To read or look at things closeup, I just tilt my head down a little, a lot easier than streaching my neck upwares all the time to read and do other closeup work. The line on my bi-focal sits just above the black part of the eye, not nearly as large as it would be if it was on the bottom of the lens.
Try it, you may like it.

 

[brin]

I tried using bifocals even though I can see 20 -20 for distance and I almost killed myself trying to walk down some stairs when I forgot to take them off one time. All I use now is the reading glasses from the dollar store..LOL - safer that way.

 

[Cat_Driver]

The secret is in the measuring of the glasses to your eye to what you do.

I had all the problems you guys are talking about till I went to a guy at Costco. He had a super duper computer that measured the eye and strength I needed, but the art cam in when he asked about my usage. He asked where exactly was my computer monitor, how far and what angle, where are the tings I read on a desk or on my lap mostly, when driving etc.

He designed the glass to fit my needs with a tri focal. top for far while driving, middle for computer work and lower for reading.

WOW what a great combination works perfect fro me. I only have one pair and they stay on from when I wake up till I go to bed.

He also tried a thing with contacts where he put one contact in my LEFT eye ( because I'm right handed ) and a weak lens in my left eye. This supposedly tricks your brain. One eye for far and one eye for reading close,

I never did get used to that combo, he did say it would take time, nah, not for me.

Again the secret is going to someone who knows what the heck they are doing. I paid four times as much to a guy who did a lousy job compared to the great job at Costco for $200.00 including the eye test.

 

[Bird]

I tried using bifocals even though I can see 20 -20 for distance and I almost killed myself trying to walk down some stairs when I forgot to take them off one time.

You definitely need to get adjusted to bifocals and be careful until then. In December, 1972, an officer who worked for me got a temporary extra job delivering fruit baskets for Christmas. He would back his pickup up to the loading dock, and not lower the tailgate. Then, with a fruit basket in his hands, step off the dock onto the top edge of the tailgate, then down into the bed of the pickup. That worked fine until the day he got his first bifocals. His foot missed the top edge of the tailgate, he fell across the tailgate, and broke some ribs.

It was quite a few years later before I got bifocals, but you can bet I remembered that and was very careful on steps until I got accustomed to them.

 

[MossRoad]

My mother in law has contacts with specific lenses for right and left. One is for far sight and the other for near sight. She likes them a lot.