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Ok, so I'm officially middle aged.
Should I get glasses with progressive lenses?
(Would love to hear reasoning on this from anyone who cares to comment.)
@dynamic I'm slightly nearsighted (-1.25 or so for distance), I take 'em on and off. Too much hassle to keep them clean and stuff to wear them all the time.
Even though I wear safety glasses out in the shop.
@dynamic I found progressive lenses pretty easy to adjust to. I can easily go without glasses for reading -- I think my prescription for near vision is something like 1.1 -- but I like to have them on for when I look up, and generally I don't like taking glasses on and off.
My former partner found progressive lenses frustrating, so it's very much YMMV.
I used one of those Internet-based opticians, so the glasses didn't cost much, and it wasn't much of a gamble.
That's fair. I've also been feeling like I should try to get a couple pairs of glasses so that it isn't a crisis every time my glasses break.
If you have insights on which internet-based opticians are best to go with, that'd be cool too!
@dynamic Another survey I can't vote on; my choice was bi/tri-focals. I couldn't stand the progressive lenses, because you lose your peripheral vision. I tried them for two weeks to see if I could adjust, but I couldn't do it.
I had a coworker tell me that he threw up for two weeks, then was fine and loves them. Someone else said they had headaches for a week. Others just needed to adapt to turning their head for periphery viewing. YMMV
Can you say more about how progressive lenses interfere with peripheral visions in ways that bifocals don't?
@dynamic The outside edge of the lens is a different focus with progressive lenses. With a normal lens, you have the same focus across the surface. The bi/tri-focals usually don't extend to the edges as well, so your periphery stays at distance viewing. I started with bifocals and as I got older, I needed the trifocal for middle depth (mostly for computer usage).