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Do you enjoy moving your head side-to-side just to read a phone screen? Do you only want to focus on 10% of your computer screen? Do you want your entire focus to shift and go sideways when you move your head? If you answered "yes", then get progressives with their absurd "hourglass" grind.
I could have written this. Me exactly my friend.Not a close question for me. For me progressives are the way to go. I recall a very minor adjustment to them.
Re reading glasses, unless you have a big difference between the eyes, or maybe astigmatism, I think over the counter glasses are going to be basically as good as having them made to meet a prescription.
For that matter, I have progressive lenses, but often take my glasses off altogether to read. I sure need glasses for driving/distance!
My son was Rx'd some yellow lenses with some kinda reading glasses in the bottom because his eyes "danced?" I think they said. We never noticed it.I have tried both Bi focals and Progressive lenses and prefer the Progressive eye lenses glasses. If you walk a lot stairs you will prefer Progressive lenses for safety IMO. For working on computers buy reading glasses is my preference.
There are strengths and weakness in all eye ware it seems.
I could have written this. Me exactly my friend.
Interesting about yellow lenses, I use yellow lenses for driving in fog or low light conditions and seem to work well. On my reading glasses for my computer I had them make my prescription with the blue light block lenses because older computers can push out so much of it. Blue light is one of the more destructive rays on the spectrum light band rays because its a short ray band intense from my limited research that most folks don't seem to care about or never heard it existed. A lot of newer computers have this option Incorporated for protecting your eyes better for the younger generations who will be exposed the most over time.My son was Rx'd some yellow lenses with some kinda reading glasses in the bottom because his eyes "danced?" I think they said. We never noticed it.
Lol! Aging IS the great equalizer!I like it when you and I agree, as we often do! This growing old stuff is for the birds. It strikes me that I have had progressive lenses for so long now, I cannot even remember what adaption period or efforts there may have been way back when!
I'm AMAZED by my son's vision. Shoulda been a fighter pilot. I'll bet he sees a baseball as good as Ted Williams!Interesting about yellow lenses, I use yellow lenses for driving in fog or low light conditions and seem to work well. On my reading glasses for my computer I had them make my prescription with the blue light block lenses because older computers can push out so much of it. Blue light is one of the more destructive rays on the spectrum light band rays because its a short ray band intense from my limited research that most folks don't seem to care about or never heard it existed. A lot of newer computers have this option Incorporated for protecting your eyes better for the younger generations who will be exposed the most over time.
Thanks for the information about how your progressive lens are constructed. That was educational for me as this sounds exactly like my experience.Be aware that progressive lenses aren't (at least mine aren't) horizontal linear bifocals, which is to say that the line between the top and bottom isn't straight. There's a conical pattern at the bottom inner-center which focuses closer and the rest of the lens focuses farther away. I don't know if all progressive lenses are like this, but it makes them useless to me except for driving.
For normal everyday use, when I look down, typically it's at things that are closer and when I look up, things are farther away. Normal bifocals (like the ones I wear daily) work perfectly in this scenario. I can look straight down or straight down and to the left or right and still have the close focus. But with the progressive lenses, if I look down and to the right or left, I get the far focus and have to turn my head to where I'm looking directly down. This is annoying for large-format reading/work - desk work or close-up woodworking, for example, because things at the edges of your vision are out of focus and you have to swivel your head to focus things. So, my expensive progressive lenses live in my car's center console where I theoretically could use them - but almost never do, because the regular bifocals work well for driving too... lol.
So, YMMV, but if you find yourself doing a lot of large format close reading, (proofreading, graphic design, woodworking, etc.) take a moment to notice how much you move your head vs. how much you swivel your eyes as this will make a significant difference. Maybe there are purely horizontal progressive lenses -- but I've had this discussion with several people who use progressive lenses and they all have the conical bottom sweet spot (and they all liked them). I didn't. I found them inconvenient and the out of focus near-field sides made me vaguely dizzy when doing desk-work/bench-work. YMMV, but it's something to consider and discuss with your optometrist.