Eye Problems

[bednobs]

well, only the usual i suppose! I went for an eyetest today. I previously had glasses for reading/close work and only wore them when my eyes got tired, at most 2-3 times a week when i was at work.
today i have been told i now have to have an adjustment for distance as well as close and have been recommended varifocals or as an alternative bifocals or two pairs - 1 for distance and one for cloe work. Humfp! Am i now old???
Anyway, i don't want to really become a full time glasses wearer. Does anyone have any htoughts on what to go for? Been in this dilemma? got any advice??

[ladybirder]

Bednobs, if you want to keep going from one pair to another, for instance when you want to read the price of an item on a label, or when you are driving and you need to read your instrument panel, then have two pairs. I couldn't stand all that messing about so I got varifocals and they are fantastic. No contest.

[bednobs]

i had my test done at vision express -they do this guarantee thing that if you don't get on with them you take them back and get something else

[Mamyalynne]

I can't really help from my own perspective,but most people I know in your situation have gone for Varifocals and got used to them.

For myself sadly the decision is out of my hands really,I was born highly myopic (not discovered till first day at school) worn glasses for 56 years - steadily getting worse.

Add to this open angle glaucoma and I have a white stick and a yellow card (not sure what to do with that lol).

At minus 20 diopters, my choice of frames is usually down to two in the shop and affording the glasses is usually beyond me anyway.

Good luck with your decision - Nil Desperandum.

[shaneystar2]

Varifocals can take a while to get used to .I was ready to give up but persevered and would never go back to two pairs of glasses .I was forever losing my reading glasses .As for old ..well ,I 've been wearing glasses all the time since I was six and I'm now sixty odd.
You can get lovely fashionable frames these days .

[ladybirder]

Up to you. If you can stand the faffing about from one set to the other then you go for it. But why would you want to?

[MargoTester]

I didn't think I would get on with varifocals so opted for two pairs, reading/ distance, got really fed up with swapping around all the time. Went to Specsavers for the next eye test and got 1 pair varifocals and 1 reading. As my distance vision had not really changed they said I would be safe/legal to use my old distance glasses for driving if I did not get on with varifocals. I used the varifocals for everything but driving and really got on with them and then started driving in them with absolutely no problems.

[ubasses]

I am in the varifocal camp, only took a couple of days to adapt. Changing glasses all the time will end up a pain in the proverbial.

If you have a good optician who gets all the measurements for the change of visions in relation to the pupil correct, you should not have any problems.

[pusskin]

Have had my varicals for around 10 yrs. Would never ever go back to normal reading and distance glasses. i have no problem at all since the first day they got put on my face. Got for varifocals, thats my advice.

[Samuraisan]

Me too. I am in varifocal camp. I have various pairs over the last 20 years and have had no problem with them. I couldn't be bothered with going from one pair to another. New ones do take a day or two to get used to.