Progressive lens glasses

[friesman]

I am not having a problem finding the sweet spot in moving my head up and down, my frustration is if I am looking distant, I have to move my head if I need to look as little as 10º off center and stay in focus.

RandyA

 

My eye doctor will check any glasses you bring to him for 20 bucks, so it might be something you could do. I am thinking your lenses are messed up, you shouldnt be seeing changes and warping as you go from side to side. (although with a smaller lense you mat see the edge distortion a bit). Take em and get them checked at someone other than your dispensery.

 

Brian

[MiCarl]

My eye doctor will check any glasses you bring to him for 20 bucks, so it might be something you could do. I am thinking your lenses are messed up, you shouldnt be seeing changes and warping as you go from side to side. (although with a smaller lense you mat see the edge distortion a bit). Take em and get them checked at someone other than your dispensery.

 

Brian

 

I'm on my third pair. Every pair has been out of focus when eyes are aimed to the side rather than straight ahead. Not bad, but noticeable if I look at something then turn my head while watching it. I think it's the nature of the beast.

 

Having said that, I got used to it in about three days. I think it might be a problem when comparing a bunch of documents or something like that.

[CMIKE]

It really takes some time to get used to them. I usually wear the smallest frame glasses I can find so the most magnification is right at the bottom of the lense.

When I first got them...It was strange to walk around...driving was another issue all together. You will adjust to them and really like them in the end.

[jlh3rd]

randya

 

i see what your talking about...just sitting here playing with mine and they do the same thing.....guess it's just something that doesn't bother me.....

[painterman67]

hey randy,

 

i have two pair made in the progresive lens. One small pair and one large pair . the large set I took to quite well. these are my work glasses and I had no probs what so ever. NOw as for my smaller pair that was another story. I was on the verge of taking them bake. It took me a while to unerdstand to point your nose at what you want to look at. Finally fihured it out by mistake. WHat I did was to go for a ride. when I put on my full face helmet I have to turn my head to look at what I want to see due to the sides and bottom of the helmet. After a few rides I got used to the glasses and now have no probs. Yes if you turn your eyes without turning you head you will get a blur. For this reason I had to have a 3rd pair made but in single visionin my distance perscription.

 

 

Hope this helps as it was what worked for me. First and formost is to learn to point your nose at what you want to see.

 

 

 

David

[BOO]

I am not having a problem finding the sweet spot in moving my head up and down, my frustration is if I am looking distant, I have to move my head if I need to look as little as 10º off center and stay in focus.

RandyA

 

Sounds like there is a problem with your glasses. One of the problems I had was the center to center measurement was slightly off so I also was turning my head slightly and only using one eye to see, after they fixed it with a new pair things were just fine.

BOO

[BOO]

I have them and hate 'em. They are OK for around the house type stuff. But not for any work that requires you to see what you are doing. You have to point your nose exactly at what you want to see clearly. Try doing carpentry work, every 2x4 you look down is curved. Try working on your car/truck/bike where you have to look out the corner of your eye, it's distorted and hard to find the bolt hole on thread on the nut. Try doing paper work at your desk comparing two contracts line by line. You can't just scan back and forth you have to move your head back and forth.

 

I have a pair of bifocals that I use at the computer where the top is screen distance and the bottom is reading distance (12"). I also use these when doing any mechanical work. I have another pair of bifocals that I use for driving where the top is for distance and the bottom is to see the dash.

 

I really need trifocals but the eye Dr said to try the progressive first, I did, I don't like.

 

Carpentry was what I was talking about when I mentioned the glasses with bifocals top and bottom. There were actually the regular cut ones, distance in the middle and up close top and bottom. Worked great for trimming doors etc but thats about it. I've have also checked 2 by 4's more then once because they didn't look plum. And if I move my head from side to side you can get a wave effect with the 2 by 4's and some vertigo to go with it LOL.

BOO

[99silver]

I decided to stay out of the fish bowl and just get the regular bi fold, very happy as I could give a rip about style and fashion. I just want to see.

[dingy]

Hi, this is Nancy, dingy's wife (lucky me) I just hit my 23rd year as a customer service rep at an optical lab, we make glasses for doctors all over the country. I hear all the complaints and comments you have all committed on.

 

My first suggestion is make sure you go to a good optometrist, your retail optical places have different standards as far as the quality of your glasses. Also when going to a doctor's office they have all types of warranties as far as being able to remake your glasses for you until you are comfortable with the lenses and the frames (so don't give up until they are right). They also have warranties for your lenses that get scratched, and some of the doctors even replace them for more serious

damage(such as the dog chewing them up).

 

Also most of the companies that make progressive lenses gives you a nice time limit to get adjusted to your progressives so you can go back to your doctor until they are correct and they SHOULD be redone at no charge because those lenses can be returned to the lab that made the glasses and they will remake them at no charge for the doctor, because the lab then returns them to the manufacturer and gets their money back.

 

 

Progressive lenses are more expensive so the manufacturers do whatever they can to keep the doctors ordering them. Keep in mind though that a lot of retail optical stores do not follow these procedures (I really am not putting down the retail optical stores, because most of them are less expensive, but that factors into why they don't offer the same warranty.) You just have to decide what is best for you.

 

I have never heard of any law about a prescription having to be redone every year. Most of your doctors suggest two years.

 

If you are having trouble with your progressives there are a lot of issues that should be considered because there are so many different manufacturers out there. Dingy wears a type of progressive that literally makes me sick. The progressive needs to be measured correctly for you or you will never get used to it, and it does take a few days to adjust, even when you have a prescription change. If you are having problems when turning your head have the doctor double check you "pd" which is the distance between your eyes, if that has been measured wrong or comes back from the lab wrong, you will have problems, other things that need checked would be the seg hgt, thats where your reading area starts, if it is measured too high or too low you will have a lot of up and down trying to focus.

 

Some of the progressive brands have a wider corridor than others, which means the bifocal actually gets wider as it graduates down the lens. There are some new progressives out there that are digitally designed especially for you.

 

Some of you talked about having a bifocal at the top and at the bottom, those are occupational lenses, they were designed for plumbers and electricians.

 

Dingy was complaining of having a sore neck because he was always on the computer, so he was always tilting his head up, so I had a pair of computer glasses made for him, it is a different lens design for people who do a lot of computer work, similar in some ways to readers, so now you have eliminated all the head tilting. You use the same prescription that you were originally given for you progressives, your doctors just tells the lab that they need to adjust it to the computer style.

 

Don't give up on your progressive, make sure your eye wear was made correctly for you.

 

Nancy

[Venturous Randy]

Nancy, thank you so very much for sharing all this information with us. As I noted, mine come through to local Veterans Administration, and I have no idea which lab they use. It does sound like the concern of having a very narrow band down the middle for what is in focus at the top, may be typical with these type glasses.

RandyA

[Guest Ken8143]

I went to progressives a number of years ago. When I needed tri-focals I discovered the sweet spot for the middle distance, like for the computer was just too tiny. Got other lens that were supposed to have a larger band. wore them for a long time. Had another set of office glasses/progressive, and that works fine for the computer, but dang I hate to always have to change glasses. Finally went to line trifocals. They got limitations also, like fixed focus, but I do have wider range of vision and I could never get the pin sized sweet spot to line up right.

[BuddyRich]

Randy, I've worn glasses since the second grade. Got use to it in about 2 weeks. I CANNOT wear progressive lenses because I refuse to turn my head to be able to see in focus left or right at a distance. I am not an owl and my eyes do turn in their sockets:rotf:. I glance left or right and its outta focus. I was told that's just the way they are.With bi-focals or tri-focals I can look as far as the edge of the glasses without turning my head and everything is still in focus .So I will continue to wear bi-focals and put up with the line in the lower field of vision.

Edited January 30, 2010 by BuddyRich

[autopilot]

Unless your progressive lenses are somehow way different than the ones I had, the center/middle strip isn't for distance sight. It's more for mid-range (something around arms length for a focal point). I never could get used to them, so I eventually got 2 pair of bifocals. One has the usual distance lense over the entirety of the field of view, with the small reading lense at center bottom. They were much easier to get used to and they were cheaper priced. The other pair are also bifocals, but with the entire lower half as a reading lense and the upper half as a short range assist for about 30 or so inches away (work at the computer) Works great. I get to see the computer screen and then glance down to the keyboard and still be in focus on both of them (though not at the same time--duh).

 

(The progressives were effectively tri-focals)

Edited January 30, 2010 by autopilot
minor clarification

[Venturous Randy]

Unless your progressive lenses are somehow way different than the ones I had, the center/middle strip isn't for distance sight. It's more for mid-range (something around arms length for a focal point).

 

I am not talking about the center strip of the lens horizontally, but vertically. The top center of the lens is in good focus for distance, but anything slightly off center when moving my eyes to the right or left goes out of focus very quickly.

RandyA

[autopilot]

I am not talking about the center strip of the lens horizontally, but vertically. The top center of the lens is in good focus for distance, but anything slightly off center when moving my eyes to the right or left goes out of focus very quickly.

RandyA

 

I got thinking about that some more after my post. I do distinctly recall that using them required an inordinate amount of head movement to make sure that whatever I wanted to see was seen through the appropriate part of the lense (makes me think of your problem). If I wore them much, I'd get a headache and my neck would hurt and I was constantly pushing them up the bridge of my nose to keep that little good viewing spot right in front my eyes. Had much trouble trying to go down steps. I vaguely recall some of the problem you describe, but as I said, I had to replace mine to accomodate the two separate applications. Good luck with your situation.