May need a little advice from the more experienced operators here. Spending my first evening with bi-focals !!! Left my steel-toe shoes on because I've already caught the steel frames of the kitchen chairs a few times. Went outside under a full moon and it was surreal !!! How long before it's safe to reach for an X-Acto ??? Any help (or humor !!!) is appreciated, that is, if I can read it !!! Your's truly, Mr. Magoo !!!
Each person is different but you have to give your brain a certain amount of time to adjust or reprogram itself. It did not take me long.
Maybe you'd be better served with a set of progressive lenses. Or, if you plan to do a lot of close-up work, a second set of eyewear made up with just your reading prescription.
Took me several day to get used to it but barely notice it now. Mine are progressive lens glasses but basically trifocals. Just be careful until your eyes and brain adjust to them and you will be all good.
Progressive lenses are great. I've had them for nearly 40 years and don't realize i'm wearing them. My brain automatically positions my head exactly where it needs to be for perfect focus. My advice is to just let your brain take over, don't even think about it.
The advice about going down stairs (and ladders!) is worth repeating. If your lenses are like mine, it may make you think the floor near your feet is closer than it really is, and you might step off the last step of a stairway or ladder, thinking you are already on a level floor. (You may also try to "step-up" on a step that really isn't there, but that isn't as dangerous.) With bifocals, at least there is a line in your field of view to tell you that your perspective shifts below that line. With progressive lenses, not only is that clue not there, but the smooth transition from near to far-focus lenses tends to make perceptions of angles problematic. Squares and rectangles look like parallelograms and trapezoids. It is hard to judge whether something is vertical unless you are looking at it in the right direction. It does not take very long for your brain to adapt to wearing the lenses if you wear them all the time. But, then, if you take them off, you have the problems that you had when you first started wearing them.
They are progressive lenses. Think frames need to be adjusted. Sometimes it's like looking out of a fishbowl !!!
I tried progressive lenses once and could not even drive with them. Returned them for regular bifocals and haven't looked back since.
The antidote to poor vision is a violent amount of light. Even the Hubble Telescope needed bifocals...
My first multi-focal lenses were traditional bifocals. Then I switched and have never looked back. I have worn progressives for about 15 years now. Never had a problem. Each person is different I suppose.
I've had progressive lenses and while they weren't bad, I've gone back to bifocals. It seemed like I was constantly nodding my head while I looked for that 'sweet spot' where things were in focus. That there was a rather large extra cost for them didn't help their cause either.
I too chose the progressive lenses. It does take a little time to get use to them, but now I don't even think about head positioning or eye positioning to read something close up or at a distance, it's all automatic now. The worst for me was my astigmatism, when I put that first pair of glasses on many years ago I almost fell over, literly Everything seemed to lean to one side. I almost fell off the sidewalk a few times and I probably looked like a drunk walking down the street, but within short order everything was fine and my brain adjusted. It happens to all of us, when I was in my early 20's, I had 20/20 vision in my right eye and 20/30 vision in my left eye. Now I cannot pass a motor vehicle eye test without my glasses, such is life
At the DMV they told me to take off my glasses, look at the chart and tell her what I saw. I said “big white rectangle”. Yes, glasses required.
One of the first times I had my eyes tested they left me in the exam room alone for about 10 minutes. I got bored quite quickly and I began walking around the room, being extra careful not to touch any of the gear. I was up by the chart, which was one of those big old fabric, like a finely woven canvas, and noticed in tiny letters about 1/16 inch tall the words "Lithographed in USA". So the examiner comes in, and sets me up for the exam, and says "Read the lowest line on the chart that you can see." I almost laughed, but didn't. I had remembered a joke in a magazine and said "Lithographed in the USA". You could have heard a pin hit the floor, then the examiner walked up to the chart, looked it all over, bent down and scanned it for at least a minute until she found the words, turned to me and said. "You're Kidding....You can see that!" I laughed and said, "Yeah......but not from here!" She had a good sense of humor and laughed too......"Good one!" "You had me thinking for a bit there."
