Progressive lenses

[Catrin]

I've had bad luck getting good lenses from Walmart, and I tried before I needed a bifocal. My prescription is complicated, and the adding in the progressive or bifocal component doesn't help. I like my progressives and will stick with them.

My glasses are far from inexpensive, but they do the job - and I was never able to find a less expensive provider who was able to deliver lenses that worked properly for me. I am sure they aren't all that way, but as bad as my vision is I won't gamble just to potentially save a bit. Thankfully I do have vision insurance which does help mitigate the cost. I don't spend much on the frame, the insurance helps most there.

We had to change my astigmitism prescription a bit to enable to me have Oakley sunglasses for the bike - I am concerned that won't be an option this time as I think my astigmitism might be worse right now but we will see. Sometimes it is worse, sometimes it is better. I will find out next Tuesday when I go for my appointment.

[Brandi]

I noticed when sculpting this year that if I was close up on the sculpture I was having a hard time seeing clear. But that was inside with not great lighting. I am nearsighted and have Astigmatism as well. The glasses I have are great for seeing those stop signs coming up and street signs as well. It's the trying to read after looking far for a time or reading then looking up and trying to see far. My husband is a freak he is 53 and has perfect vision still. Even though his whole family wears glasses. And he is always on his computer and STILL he has good vision.
Now right now I can be on the computer and see fine but when the light starts to get bad that changes.
Debating on weather to just buy more reading glasses and take them everywhere with me or give in. I too am funding my dentist office right now as well. And my kitty needs to have a little skin cancer on his nose frozen off and teeth cleaned while they do that. Animals and teeth always seem to come first.

[smilingcat]

I've had my progressive lens for about 8 years or so I think... And my eyes have not gotten worse or better. My eyes have been stable. Can't read too well up close and definitely blurry (bokeh) far away without my glasses.

Hope this helps.

[skhill]

Got my first pair of progressives over the summer. I didn't have any trouble adjusting to them at all. Reading in low light was getting tough, but the what really pushed me to getting them was reading music. That distance was getting increasingly bad.

My uncle the opthamologist told me that I should expect to change my perscription several times over the next decade, then hopefully things won't change much for a long time. We'll see. (Alas, he's retired now, so no more free eye care...)