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Multi-focal lenses
Hey all! I just got my new spectacles and they are multi-focal lenses. I am wondering how did anyone get on with theirs when they first got them? I feel like I am on a roller coaster wearing a fishbowl whilst drunk! Making me really nauseous! I got told by the optometrist that is very common. If I can get used to them I will never go back to single focal lenses.
Just wondering what others experience was like!
Just wondering what others experience was like!
Thankfully, I don't need to wear glasses, but the rest of my family does, including my teenage daughter. My dad has trifocals and he has to take them off to read anything, my hub wears bifocals and he does the same...what's the point of wearing glasses you can't see out of anyway?? Also, years ago, a lady had just gotten her new glasses and she smashed into my drivers door because she didn't see my car sitting there. It happened in a parking lot, so she wasn't going very fast and no one got hurt. Even though my car had a big boo-boo on the side of it from then on, it was actually pretty funny. I didn't even bother calling anyone or filing a claim. I felt sorry for her and it was an old car on it's way out anyway=D
I got them adjusted a little bit.....seems a bit better.....still finding walking around a bit befuddling. Trying to get my poor brain to remember to look at certain spots in the lens rather than scanning my view. That is the trick apparently.
The nice optometrist also gave me a few hints. To bring reading material at a slight angle up to my glasses not straight on. To lower my computer screen. I have a huge 17 inch one and everything is blurry if I have it up higher.
So I am tolerating them for another week...if no good then I can get single lenses put in free of charge. But no refund on the multis....sigh......
The nice optometrist also gave me a few hints. To bring reading material at a slight angle up to my glasses not straight on. To lower my computer screen. I have a huge 17 inch one and everything is blurry if I have it up higher.
So I am tolerating them for another week...if no good then I can get single lenses put in free of charge. But no refund on the multis....sigh......
I tried them, hated them, and went back to my trusty tri-focals. I have a lazy eye and I just could not make my eyes focus where they should, with the line, I can "lock" them on the subject I need to see. I know lots of folks love the no-line, but, I hate them.
I got new progressive bifocals about 2 weeks ago. It took two or three days to feel ok with them. I also got prescription sunglasss for the first time. He put the bifocal a little lower, which made mowing the lawn feel like I was on a ladder above the mower. I am glad that I can now read outdoors without squinting.
Can you take them back ask them to check the prescription, you can do that here.
I still wonder if the person who did the prescription lens was perhaps in need of a checkup themselves!
My husband was wearing his bifocals one day while stepping from a retaining wall onto the truck trailer. He missed..Oh...the bifocals made the trailer look closer than it was and it just wasn't there when he put his foot down. He sort of threw himself forward and ended up sort of landing on the trailer at his waist and then just slid the rest of the way down. His side was so bruised and skinned up...That was the day he learned how to use his glasses. Ouch. I still cringe.
And, once they are perfectly adjusted and you don't know they are there, the slightest run in with your glasses into a wall or car seat or something like that will cause them to be blurry and annoying ... so back you go for yet another adjustment LOL. That bifocal line must be in the right spot or else ....
I HATED supermarkets the first few weeks .... everything seemed to whirl around as I zoomed in on the labels .... but that did go away.
C~
I HATED supermarkets the first few weeks .... everything seemed to whirl around as I zoomed in on the labels .... but that did go away.
C~
Mine are the transtionals aswell its my second pair had the last ones stolen with my purse.....hey did you watch Hewitt win his match at Wimbledon, hes doing pretty good you Aussies may have a champion again..hey he could get into the finals ..was a good game..
Thanks guys! Yes, mine are expensive, and yes they are line-free...I just got back from the optometrist after having my visual field, glaucoma etc testing done. Apparently I have an excellent eye for a 46 year old. Better than a 20 year old! I say EYE coz I have only one! The other is a prosthestic eye.
The guy said it WILL take me longer than most people due to having only one eye. He adjusted them for me and said give it a few days and if not good to come back again. He will do any amount of adjustments for me just to help me out. He said that if after say 2 weeks I am still feeling like I want to throw up he'll put single lenses in for reading for free. Won't get my money back on the bloody expensive other ones though..Grrrr.
My health fund doesn't cover them either!
Yes, my distance vision is not too bad. No change in prescription for over 6 years which is excellent. Just the close up has gone slightly down hill in 2 years since last check up.
Hee hee...my older son said to me yesterday at the supermarket, that I looked like a bird trying to get my head to sit in the right spot to read the shelves price tags.....I must have looked funny. Youhave to line up your eye in the spot of the reading part and then in a different spot for distance etc.
I really like the look of my new specs. . They have the transition lenses in them too to help with the glare and sun. (Like al my glasses have had. One eye, gotta protect it!)
Guess I will perservere a little longer, especially since I am going hiking in Canada soon. I really do not want to take two sets of glasses. I can imagine it now...my everyday glasses for walking along....Oh what is that furry thing right in front of me...change to reading glasses...Oh! It's a bear...maybe if I put my sunglasses on he won;t see me!
Great to know you guys are helping realise it is not just me not used to them!
The guy said it WILL take me longer than most people due to having only one eye. He adjusted them for me and said give it a few days and if not good to come back again. He will do any amount of adjustments for me just to help me out. He said that if after say 2 weeks I am still feeling like I want to throw up he'll put single lenses in for reading for free. Won't get my money back on the bloody expensive other ones though..Grrrr.
My health fund doesn't cover them either!
Yes, my distance vision is not too bad. No change in prescription for over 6 years which is excellent. Just the close up has gone slightly down hill in 2 years since last check up.
Hee hee...my older son said to me yesterday at the supermarket, that I looked like a bird trying to get my head to sit in the right spot to read the shelves price tags.....I must have looked funny. Youhave to line up your eye in the spot of the reading part and then in a different spot for distance etc.
I really like the look of my new specs. . They have the transition lenses in them too to help with the glare and sun. (Like al my glasses have had. One eye, gotta protect it!)
Guess I will perservere a little longer, especially since I am going hiking in Canada soon. I really do not want to take two sets of glasses. I can imagine it now...my everyday glasses for walking along....Oh what is that furry thing right in front of me...change to reading glasses...Oh! It's a bear...maybe if I put my sunglasses on he won;t see me!
Great to know you guys are helping realise it is not just me not used to them!
I have them....hate em...but I changed jobs and went from a job where I did a lot of close up work, and now I do some closeup work, but a lot of work in the warehouse around racks and pallets...I have to be within 4 feet of the thing to read what's on it...I just think I need to have them redone. I have had glasses for 20 years, but have only actually worn them maybe 5. : ) I know....I'm a bad one. I sit down, the glasses come off. I have great far away vision and not so bad close up vision. But my right eye is very definitely different than my left.
Yes I have them they are great once you get used to them mine are tinted ,,no lines. expensive if we are talking about the same kind, sounds like it, persevere its worth it its because you are used to looking through them.
6 weeks .. it took me 6 weeks and I almost gave up and then one day I didn't realize they were there and the period of those good times got longer and longer. One thing is imperative, though, they MUST be adjusted 100% properly or thing will be off and blurry.
5 yrs later don't know how I could live without them. Mine are what they call "progressive" lenses here in the states .. no line bifocals which are even a bit harder to adjust to since there's no line of demarcation among the strengths in the lense.
It takes awhile to "retrain" the eyes .. and I've been wearing glasses since 2nd grade.
C~
5 yrs later don't know how I could live without them. Mine are what they call "progressive" lenses here in the states .. no line bifocals which are even a bit harder to adjust to since there's no line of demarcation among the strengths in the lense.
It takes awhile to "retrain" the eyes .. and I've been wearing glasses since 2nd grade.
C~
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