Varifocals

[groucho]

I've got my new ones on at the moment. First glasses I've ever used. Weird or what?

[Big Al.]

You'll soon get used to them, been wearing them now for 10 ish years would never go back to single vison.

[RegMolehusband]

I find them useless for computer work though. I use £10 reading glasses from Sainsburys.

[MacGee]

the trick is to move the head to alter focal length...weird at football and cinema where you normally just move your eyes. I rely so much on mine as continually change focus range at work...thus needing only one set.

[sjwb]

Mmmm, takes some getting used to but well worth sticking with.
I find it odd that driving the car is difficult (peripheral vision?) yet on the motorcycle brilliant. Wonderful actually being able to see the instruments as well as the road

[King Herald]

MacGee said:

the trick is to move the head to alter focal length...weird at football and cinema where you normally just move your eyes. I rely so much on mine as continually change focus range at work...thus needing only one set.

My work mates thought it was hilarious when I first got mine, seeing me stumbling around wobbling my head all over the place trying to find the 'sweet spot' in the focus. I got used to them eventually, but found it impossible to read for any length of time as the focal point was far too small. The opticians swapped out the lenses three times, before I gave up and just got a pair of normal reading glasses.

Several years later a new girl in my opticians told me I'd never be able to use varifocals for reading properly with my combination of eye adjustments.

[Mrs Muttleysnoop]

I have used them for approx 26 years (with regular upgrades) with NO probs but 5 weeks ago I got a new pair. Well they are going back tomorrow as I really am having problems. The peripheral vision is awful in the right lens, it is so blurred. I am getting eye ache and even the long distance vision is blurred. The weird thing is that my previous pair were very small and my new ones are a little bigger.

I was talking to a woman the other day and she said hers had to go back 3 times as she was having problems. Her optician told her they are made to tolerances rather than being made with zero tolerance.