New glasses

[Kirk (KC) Constable]

I finally got around to getting a new prescription last week...since I couln't read the date on my watch or the transaction summary in the sports section anymore. :o

LOML and the doc talked me into trying the progressive lenses. I told the doc I needed reading correction, and I needed 36" correction...but no matter what they do for distance the past three or four times, it's always been as good or better without. Naturally, he insisted he could make it better...and like a dummy, I said okay...one more try. So I picked the glasses up yesterday. Of course, I can see far away better without them :mad: , but the mid-range was very disappointing...and I was having a very tough time finding the 'sweet spots'. After several hours I've determined that if there's any short/intermediate corrction in the left lens AT ALL, it's way wrong. Wrong enough that it gets 'in the way' of what my right eye is trying to see, and everything is just wanky. So tomorrow morning is shot, as I'll be waiting behind 17 people at the WalMart to get something redone that shoulda been done right in the first place. :mad: LOML sent her last pair back THREE times before the whole deal was right. One must wonder if there's a lesson here....

KC

KC

[Joe Pelonio]

KC,

My problem is reading and at the computer the reading lenses are too strong, so I went with progressive. The center on mine is just right for the monitor. Still when I got them I was really disappointed and kept using the old reading glasses until I became determined and found that it took a long time to get used to them, but now I love them. I can even drive with them on if I'm trying to check mapquest directions. Of course prescriptions vary greatly and it may be that it's not right for your eyes, but one thing I found out is that it's better to have glasses with "taller" lenses in a case like yours with that much of a range difference (12-36"). If you try to get that much difference into small lenses the change is really drastic. Mine is 12-24" and I had to get lenses about 3/8" higher than the originals that were just for reading. Good luck, I hope they figure something out for you.

[Lee DeRaud]

One thing to watch out for if this is your first try with the progressive lenses is that straight lines in the midrange looks curved...not a good thing when picking out chunks of wood from the pile at the store.

[Jim Dunn]

KC I too tried progressive lens at the recommendation of my opt. Big joke!! Made me queasy to my stomach, and everytime I tried to look right or left I saw double.

Went back for just a "PLAIN" set of reading glasses set at about 3' and they work fine. Course I have to use a jewelers loop to read the settings on my verneer calipers but that's life, I guess.

Jim

[Lee DeRaud]

Course I have to use a jewelers loop to read the settings on my verneer calipers but that's life, I guess.I've got a vernier caliper around here somewhere...probably in the bottom drawer next to the slide-rule. :eek:

"Once you go digital, you never go back." :cool:

[Andy Hoyt]

I need glasses for driving and that's about it. Couple of years ago I got talked into progressives in a moment of weakness - guy said it had something to do with improving my borderline somethingorother syndrome. Picked them up, jumped in truck (was dark out), drove two miles, and turned around to exchange them for a pair of regular glasses.

The driving part was okay as long as I was looking out the window, but when I tried to read the instrument panel it took far too long for the the gauge I knew I was looking at to come into focus.

Had a pair of real glasses the next morning.

[Tim Morton]

I finally got around to getting a new prescription last week...since I couln't read the date on my watch or the transaction summary in the sports section anymore. :o

LOML and the doc talked me into trying the progressive lenses. I told the doc I needed reading correction, and I needed 36" correction...but no matter what they do for distance the past three or four times, it's always been as good or better without. Naturally, he insisted he could make it better...and like a dummy, I said okay...one more try. So I picked the glasses up yesterday. Of course, I can see far away better without them :mad: , but the mid-range was very disappointing...and I was having a very tough time finding the 'sweet spots'. After several hours I've determined that if there's any short/intermediate corrction in the left lens AT ALL, it's way wrong. Wrong enough that it gets 'in the way' of what my right eye is trying to see, and everything is just wanky. So tomorrow morning is shot, as I'll be waiting behind 17 people at the WalMart to get something redone that shoulda been done right in the first place. :mad: LOML sent her last pair back THREE times before the whole deal was right. One must wonder if there's a lesson here....

KC

KC
Sorry Kirk...would you ever buy a tool at walmart? Me either....try a real eye doctor next time:D

[Jim Dunn]

Come on Lee, I'm old school. Apprenticed on veneer scales and optics for all the mills and jig bores I ran. Digital was used strictly by the inspectors. Course, they checked all their measuring devices on optics. And they all wore glasses too.

[Jim Becker]

Prior to my LASIK surgery, I wore progressive lenses for a few years. The only time I had problem with them was reading in bed...they were very small lenses and the "angle" was all wrong for that application. There are also "good" progressives and "not so good" progressives and the former definitely costs more. I kinda agree with Tim's point to a certain extent having experienced some really good eye professionals over the years as well as a few at the "chains".

[Bob Johnson2]

I got mine from the doc's office, took a good month to get used to. If your glasses get the same beating mine do you'll find they need andjusting once in a while (twice in the last year). Seems they get a little bent or some such and I can't seem to focus, kind of feels like I'm cross eyed. They make an adjustment and I'm good to go but I usually have to tell them what's wrong with them, easier said then done. I was told you have to wear them for at least a couple weeks to get used to them, it took that and more.
If the amount of measuring and marking the optician in the doc's office is typical I can't imagine that WalMart would do it. It had to take 30 minutes the 1st time I was there, just for the fitting.
I like them now but hated them for the 1st 3 or 4 weeks but for the price I wasn't going to give up easy.

[Kirk (KC) Constable]

In fairness to the doc(s), they have a private practice and separate stand-alone office...the WalMart location is a satellite operation.

The lenses are small...and my face is crooked...so one eye is higher than the other. Might be a simple matter of the nice WalMart vision specialist ladies locating the center of the lens incorrectly...I'll know in a few hours. :)

[Norman Hitt]

The lenses are small...and my face is crooked...so one eye is higher than the other. Might be a simple matter of the nice WalMart vision specialist ladies locating the center of the lens incorrectly...I'll know in a few hours. :)

I think you just hit on the problem, KC. I also have one eye, AND one ear lower than the other, AND too many bone lumps on the bridge of my nose, (from running it into too many things I shouldn't have),:D and my progressive lenses are fine, BUT......they never can get the frames to sit right on my face,:( Sooooooo......I have to do a lot of bending and twisting on my own til they sit where I can see good out of both eyes. One thing that my Doc did though, was to make me one pair that was progressive trifocals, and another pair that was progressive Bifocals for using in the shop and when reading or using the computer, (there is no long distance on the bifocal pair), and that is the one I use most of the time. The only time I use the trifocals is when I'm driving at night, OR when I'm driving and my eyes are real tired, or sometimes when watching the Tele'.

[Kirk (KC) Constable]

Non-symmetrical eyes/ears may well be the problem. I also have a 'fat' head, so every single frame in the store digs in to the side of my head. :mad:

I'm gonna have then checked and adjusted a bit more...then I'll give 'em a week or so to see if I can live with it. The line of the bifocal never bothered me...so I'll go back to that if necessary. I wear the bifocal safety glasses (Woodcraft) in the shop. The only good thing about the eyes getting old is that I really have no choice but to wear the goggles. :D

KC

[Ed Breen]

KC,
I had the same problem after they lasered my cataracts. They prescribed lenses to soon, in my opinion. I went through two pair at a goldeen price. I finally settled for lined bifocals, a regular pair set for my computer and a pair of 2 dioptersw from W-M for my reading pleasure. It can be complicated, but at least I can read.
Ed:o