So I have discovered...

...this is so true. dd is having issues with these. I tried some some years ago, and couldn't walk a straight line! I gave up. Good luck with this Darlene.

what the hail are progressive glasses??

what the hail are progressive glasses??

No line bifocals. Darlene, are you feeling dizzy?

a new way to get drunk without the hangover. Get yourself a pair of progressive glasses. I got mine yesterday. Man, it is going to take some time to get used to them. Does anyone else wear them? Any tricks to getting used to them faster? These old eye's ain't what they used to be.

Oh, Darlene, you poor girl. In another life, I worked at Sterling Optical, and I used to feel so sorry for the people who'd come back in after getting them; they'd come in complaining about how hard the adjustment was. It just takes time, and you have to learn where the bifocal line is. Eventually (theoretically) you'll start to transition from one part of the lens to the other without making yourself seasick.

My genius optometrist adjusted my prescription on my glasses and contacts to improve my vision close up...the downside he had to reduce my distance vision.....but it works and I don't need the bifocals..otherwise I would have.....

They suck.

Darlene and dd, here's to Dramamine in your stockings.
(sorry)

WARNING, f627in' thesis below: Read at your own risk. ;-)


kdw, I swear I am almost blind. I wore bifocals in the 3rd grade, just for a year though. :roll: I got my first progressives last year and my newest progressives a few weeks ago. Just keep lookin' out the top until fine stuff then look out the bottom. I guess you knew that, sorry. With these new smaller and smaller frames it makes it a little more difficult to dlfferentiate, don't it? If it's really fine stuff I have to take them off and hold it up by my eyes. Do you wear contacts sometimes? When reading with my contacts I have to use drugstore magnifying glasses to see.

I swear I want to save up for that vision correction sugery. Has anybody had it? There's a brilliant eye surgeon, Dr. Ming Wang up in Nashville that worked at Vandy during the same time I did. He left because they did not respect his wishes, is what I heard anyway. IJS...it wasn't anything he did wrong. Anyhow, he has set up a huge practice on his own right down the street from there , and does all kinds of good deed surgery for indigent patients and charges top dollar for his work to those who can pay. When we sell a condo down there or save up (whichever comes first), Hubba and I want to get our vision fixed by him. Wouldn't it be grayt to not have to mess with anything to see?! I am surely not going to try and save $$$ when it comes to eye surgery though. I would rather pay more and for sure get the best, especially when it comes to our eyes. I realize there are no gaurantees, though. As I say that, we went to Walmart for our glasses. It was the same doc we saw in a private office here in Gallatin.

FuNNe this Dr. Wang is also a ballroom dancer and is doing that in competition on his commercial. (He has a number on the back of his tux.) Very graceful. Plus he was always nice to the nurses when I saw him, and never got all...ya know, tinsel-tangled. ;-)

I can't wait to have this done one day then I won't have to figure out which way to see what I need to see all the time. I sure am glad we live in modern times. 100 years ago I guess we woulda just been blind.

Utoh, are there 3 areas or just 2? Can you tell what these pix are? I can only see a book. Is that a bird on top? What's the middle one? I just 'd progressive lenses and this came up.

A friend recently had the vision correction surgery and went to Dothan for it. I was quite impressed by the facility and level of care, not so much by how long it took her to recover (and she's the type of person who follows dr's instructions exactly).

I think it was around $4k (varies depending on your surgery) and had a 3 month recovery time. She couldn't wear eye makeup or contacts for a certain time frame before and after (the eye makeup was the trauma for her), couldn't go in the ocean, and had to go back and pay more $ to get it corrected.

My father had it done years ago and also had to get it tweaked, but loved it........but he now has to wear reading glasses.

Thanks to all of you for thoughts. DD, I am sorry you are going through this as well. Now for a little background. I had RK (NOT LASIK) surgery done 7 years ago. Last year I noticed that my up close vision was starting to get bad. I knew it was going to at some point, RK does not correct up close vision loss. So, I got me some prescription reading glasses and did fine. Until about 6 months ago my distant vision started getting worse. I was so sad because I had worn glasses/contacts since I was 10 yrs old. I was so relieved to have the RK and not have to wear glasses or contacts. Well, little did I know that when you have RK (NOT LASIK), it can cause people to develop an astigmatism, which is what has happened to me. SOOOO......now I need glasses to see everything!!!! I am going to try to get used to them, but I am not sure I will. Like Miss Kitty, I have not walked a straight line since yesterday and the weirdest thing is I feel like I am 10 feet tall.

I have not walked a straight line since yesterday and the weirdest thing is I feel like I am 10 feet tall.

Sweet Darlene, looks like you have a new nickname--Alice!

Thanks to all of you for thoughts. DD, I am sorry you are going through this as well. Now for a little background. I had RK (NOT LASIK) surgery done 7 years ago. ...Well, little did I know that when you have RK (NOT LASIK), it can cause people to develop an astigmatism, which is what has happened to me. SOOOO......now I need glasses to see everything!!!! I am going to try to get used to them, but I am not sure I will. Like Miss Kitty, I have not walked a straight line since yesterday and the weirdest thing is I feel like I am 10 feet tall.

Would LASIK not have done it too, kdw? I have astigmatism too.

what the hail are progressive glasses??

that was my first thought ....


my mom wears them -she's always noddin her head up and down trying to focus, or she just takes her glasses off.

i have a feeling i am quickly heading towards these....

Sweet Darlene, looks like you have a new nickname--Alice!

...on my goodness, too funny!

Whatever you do don't go to Dr. Googly-eyes (Mullis) over in PC, he's blinded quite a few people.

The most recent story was of someone coming into the ER 2 days after surgery for headaches and they extracted a 2 inch needle from BEHIND the persons eye.

a new way to get drunk without the hangover. Get yourself a pair of progressive glasses. I got mine yesterday. Man, it is going to take some time to get used to them. Does anyone else wear them? Any tricks to getting used to them faster? These old eye's ain't what they used to be.

I thought this was about drinking. I was thinking that you had a SET of glasses that controlled the portion size or something...

Darlene and dd, here's to Dramamine in your stockings. (sorry)

And THEN I was wondering what good it would do to put Dramamine in your pantyhose... :funn: Kind of like putting Vicks Vaporub on the bottom of your feet?

You gulls are mighty strange...

KDW...give yourself a few more days for adjustment (just be extra careful on steps & curbs!).
I found progressives to be heavenly after years of wearing "lined" bifocals...I NEVER got used to that damm line!

KDW - I have had them for 6 mos - they are ok now - but I have gone back to using my reading glasses on the computer - couldn't see the whole screen with the progressives and it was just a pain to keep readjusting my head to see a portion of it. They are fine otherwise - I really wish I didn't have to wear glasses at all - went through 45 years without them - why now!!!!! I know old age!

OH...now I "see" I got bifo's last year. They asked me if I wanted these progressive glasses and since I was paying the bill...I said NO...seems I am glad I didn't get them! I don't use my bifo's yet...I am trying to hold off as long as possible!

KDW, I am so happy to have found someone else who had RK.

Looking back nearly 20 years later, I'm pretty happy with my RK. The reason I had RK was that I was extremely nearsighted, and could not wear contacts with comfort due to astigmatism, and hypersensitivity (my eyes are pretty much always red). They left me just a little near-sighted, so that when I got to the age where we are now, my vision would actually improve. And it did, but now I am to the other side. But at least, my progressive bifocals are small and lightweight, instead of coke bottles. My biggest issue with bifocals is going down stairs. Between not seeing the steps well and being clumsy anyway, it's not good (but I still hate escalators worse!).

What I am unhappy about is the loss of my ability to drive in unfamiliar areas at night. Though I'm not sure that's from my RK, or from the cataracts that I'll probably have to have removed next year.

heh
I just picked up my first pair of bifocals about an hour ago.
My close up vision has been getting worse and worse. It was time.
I had heard so many bad things about the progressive version that I decided not to go with it.
Good to hear I'm not the only one dealing with deteriorating vision and its accompanying hassles.