I need new glasses.

[patsmor]

I can see the computer perfectly without my computer glasses. In face, to work on it here in my chair in my living room I have to take the glasses off because the screen is too close. (however, the wrist position is perfect, as my elbows, wrists and hands are on a flat plane with one another. My repetitive motion symptoms just don't kick in unless

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[cvirtue]

What they didn't tell me when I got progressives: the outer parts of the bifocal lower area are not a focusing area -- they don't map to any of my prescription. It's a lost area.

My choice next time will be "executive" style with the line all the way across.

[patsmor]

Hmm. I hadn't noticed that, but it would explain why I looked through the lower parts at things close to me. The progressives have worked really well for me, and I have them in Photogray (or whatever it's called in plastic glasses) so I can drive with them.

The computer glasses are single vision so I can see more of the computer screen than just the slice provided by the progressives. They are also coated for non-glare from the screen and florescents and so on.

[noxcat]

My reading and computer work is done without glasses, since my near vision is almost always 20/20. But I am quite nearsighted. (Must have glasses to read or watch TV.) When I asked about bifocals, they said I didn't really need them. So I just take my glasses on and off depending on what I'm doing.

[patsmor]

I now read without glasses, and eat, and read a menu, and lots of other stuff. If we sit too close to a movie screen, I have to use my single focus lenses because the prescription is less strong than my progressives.

Last time I was at the doctor, my uncorrected vision had gone, in the last 10 years or so from 20/300 L, 20/250R to 20/100L 20/75. (sorry, I never figured the diopter game out.) With having to take my glasses off so much more, I'm guessing it's improved even more. Sigh.

I mean, good, but having to change the prescription every year or so has been expensive.

[dame_cordelia]

I have been farsighted my whole life. Now I am so extremely farsighted that the exam in the mall did not include dilation last time. I guess they were afraid that I'd try to drive too soon and get my silly self in an accident. Since cataracts run in my mom's family it is important to me to keep monitoring the possible early signs.

I keep getting new computer glasses when I need them, but keep the old ones around because their focus keeps moving further out. I am currently using 16-year-old prescription reading glasses for driving. They are now perfect for reading street signs in the day. For night driving I use the glasses I bought at Longs Drugs for $14.

[patsmor]

I suppose I could try that option, too. Good thought.