Getting old--just got bifocal/progressive lenses

[Dennis S]

I'm echoing the advise above. I had to leave my regular glasses at home and take my "new" progressives I had had for a year on a 3 week trip. I would never make the switch, otherwise. Finally, during the trip, I got used to them. They are great if everything works like it should.

[Dubya]

I have been wearing for several years... Important to get a good measurement on the center of your pupil...

[guitarist]

Also, if you wear them, wear them. Swapping this glasses and that glasses on this day, or that day (different lenses) interfere with adapting, and benefiting. The benefits are worth it, if you give your brain time to adapt.

I think the adjustment phase, the issue of adapting to progressive lenses, is overstated here. It only takes a week or two, really.

Perhaps different for different people.

I think just adjusting to wearing glasses at all is a big deal. But adjusting to a type of lens, once you're used to wearing glasses, isn't a terribly big deal. It's kind of fun. A wonder of modern optics. It's amazing how the brain works. Your eyes and brain form a relationship, a partnership, with the lens type.

And before long, any kind of glasses that aren't progressive seems primitive, less useful, clumsy, undeveloped.

The thing that drove me nuts about traditional reading glasses was putting them on and removing them a hundred times a day, and keeping track of where they are. And peering over them. Ideally it shouldn't be that much involvement.

With progressives, you put your glasses on when you wake up, and wear them all day. No fussing taking them off and then back on. And before long, they feel truly invisible. You just have perfect vision again.