Doug,
I too have been in glasses since age nine (myopia). Developed
the need for bifocals at 44; so I've been "8-eyed" for 8 years. At the
time, a few friends advised against the progressives; they had tried
them and didn't like them at all. I also did not like the fact that with
progressives you lose distance correction at the bottom/periphery of the
lens. So I went with the traditional bifocals. My advice is to get the
smallest patch of bifocal available and keep it low in the lens to avoid
having the line near the "horizon". It only took me a few days to get
used to them and really the only thing that was troubling was walking
down stairs.
Congratulations on reaching "middle age". Pretty soon your
application to AARP will be showing up in your mailbox.
Charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Doug Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:37 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OT On hazards of aging
On Tue January 2 2007 7:51 pm, Moose wrote:
> Doug Smith wrote:
> > I'll bet they never had a conversation with you about the tradeoffs
> > involved between lighter and thinner and and the ability to see with
the
> > glasses except straight down the middle.
>
> I guess I was lucky. The optometrist who first suggested them to me
was
> very knowledgeable and explained all the pros and cons throughly to
me.
> Perhaps making such an informed decision helped me adjust so easily.
>
> Moose
I've worn glasses since I was 9. I'm now in my 40s and suspect that I'll
end
up with bifocals when I get a new prescription. I have have questions
about
them. I've always had problems adjusting to different glasses. I'm
talking 3
or 4 days to adjust to a change in lens with the same prescription in
the
same frames. I tried to have a pair of prescription sunglasses, but I
couldn't cope with changing back and forth between 2 pairs of glasses.
In
fact I'm sensitive enough to distortions in glass that wind shields with
distortions in them are the second most common reason for me to walk
away
from a particular make and model of car. The questions I have is what
kinds
of difficulties did you folks have in adjusting to bifocals, what should
I
look out for and what questions should I be asking. Thanks everyone.
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