{"id":9185,"date":"2021-11-22T12:09:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T20:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9185"},"modified":"2021-12-04T01:42:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T09:42:18","slug":"glasses-bifocals-vs-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/22\/glasses-bifocals-vs-progressives\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasses, Bifocals vs Progressives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I got presbyopia, a very common age-related reduction in vision. Now, instead of just being nearsighted with moderate astigmatism, I am essentially both nearsighted and farsighted. I need to wear glasses to see things close, and different glasses to see far.<\/p>\n<p>I tried getting progressive glasses but, ARGH! it was impossible to get used to them! I asked several friends about it. Some said they love them, some hate them!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a snippet of a post I made on Facebook while trying to get used to them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ugh, I&#8217;m having a hard time getting used to them! I&#8217;ll wear them for 20 minutes and rip them off in frustration. The close-up &#8220;in-focus&#8221; area is so freaking small! It&#8217;s like 1\/3 of the width of any 8.5&#8243;x11&#8243; paper I&#8217;m reading. I can&#8217;t wiggle my nose back and forth fast enough to read at a reasonable rate! And I can&#8217;t see well outside that area!<br \/>\nWalking around with them makes me dizzy. I&#8217;m not sure if this is going to work out. And looking at a computer screen is weird and frustrating, tilting my head up and down, left and right to try to catch everything. And stuff wiggles and shifts under my gaze in a slightly disorienting way. Not luvin &#8217;em. I might call the place I got them from and ask for some help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There a few different lens systems you can get. &#8220;Occupational lenses&#8221; from different companies have different fields of view. One friend told me about her progressives, saying, &#8220;Pretty much everything in a 1ft-3ft range (laptop, phone, or book range) is clear when seen through the bottom half of my glasses.&#8221; That is way different experience from mine!<\/p>\n<p>Some possible fixes (though none worked for me)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have the optometrist make the glasses closer to your eyes &#8211; helped me a little<\/li>\n<li>get occupational lens progressives &#8211; I didn&#8217;t try yet, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any standard around what brands of lenses have larger fields of view.<\/li>\n<li>wear them for a few days to get used to them &#8211; yeah, I tried. It was insane-making<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How I solved my presbyopia problem:<\/p>\n<p>I got an eye exam and a prescription for regular distance vision and an &#8220;add&#8221; for reading and such.<\/p>\n<p>I got some <strong>clip-on readers<\/strong> that served me well during the pandemic when I didn&#8217;t want to go out. They are convenient in that I can flip them up and down for a full view of distance or near vision. I rarely wear them anymore though because they look at bit wacky and they&#8217;re a bit heavy on my head.<\/p>\n<p>I got a pair of <strong>bifocals<\/strong> from my local optician. They work much better. It still take a bit of mental work to wear them but I often wear them for a few hours during my work day. I usually wear <strong>single vision readers<\/strong> when doing closeup work like sitting at my computer. I bought 2 pair from 39dollarglasses.com, one to leave at work, one at home. For general use I mainly wear my <strong>single vision distance glasses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I got presbyopia, a very common age-related reduction in vision. Now, instead of just being nearsighted with moderate astigmatism, I am essentially both nearsighted and farsighted. I need to wear glasses to see things close, and different glasses to see far. I tried getting progressive glasses but, ARGH! it was impossible to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9186,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions\/9186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}