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youreds91
post Sun, 3 Feb 2013 - 17:46
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I'm looking for opinions on varifocals & have found this forum to be be quite sensible on varying subjects.

I've been using glasses for reading & PC work for a couple of years now. In late 2011 my distance prescription wasn't huge:

Right +0.25
Left +0.25 CYL -0.25 Axis 30.0

with +1.25 near add, which was just fine for reading.

Over the last few months I detected a change so had another test on Saturday, picking up a PPC ticket in the process... anyway, my distance has gone to:

Right +0.75
Left +1.00 Cyl -0.25 Axis 75, still +1.25 for near.

So, no problem getting new lenses for close stuff, but I'm forever taking them on & off depending on what I'm doing, or looking over the top of them.
The Optometrist mentioned varifocals but I thought I'd do some research before committing.

Anyone use them? Is it worth it for my distance prescription - which will no doubt get worse as I approach the big 5-0?
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post Fri, 8 Feb 2013 - 23:57
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Please please please do not touch online suppliers for varifocals.

Every measurement is critical in ensuring that you can see through a varifocal correctly. Sending an old pair of glasses to them will not provide them with the correct heights - it's mere guesswork with just the old glasses. A persons transition from single vision to varifocals important - get it wrong and you will put them off varis for life.

My best advice - invest in a trusted brand name such as Nikon, Essilor/varilux or Kodak to name a few. Yes they are a bit more pricey, but they have the most comfortable lens designs and tend to allow a wider choice of frame suitability. There's one brand name beginning with P I would avoid, I'm happy to discuss this in pm and explain why.
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post Sat, 9 Feb 2013 - 00:09
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Jesus. Growing old sounds depressing.

I'll just say that I got a great pair of Raybans from my local opticians. Since then I've managed to get a great deal from a lovely girl at Specsavers who apparantly knew someone I knew or something and got me a friends and family discount on BOGOF Bench and Osiris specs.

Avoid at all costs a website called Glasses Experts. I ordered cheap Ted Baker's from them. It took me 28 days to get my money back after they took an age to tell me they didn't actually stock those frames, and didn't want to give me my money back until threatened with a chargeback on the credit card.

Why don't all you speccy old gits consider laser eye surgery anyway? Seems like the obvious future.
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susie_mcg
post Sat, 9 Feb 2013 - 00:11
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Reading glasses and/or varifocals comes to most people at around 40. It's a condition called presbyopia and sadly laser doesn't correct it.

You'll be an old git too one day GB.

And just for the record I'm not at varifocal stage yet, this is my line of work!
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post Sat, 9 Feb 2013 - 00:26
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QUOTE (susie_mcg @ Sat, 9 Feb 2013 - 00:11) *
Reading glasses and/or varifocals comes to most people at around 40. It's a condition called presbyopia and sadly laser doesn't correct it.

You'll be an old git too one day GB.

And just for the record I'm not at varifocal stage yet, this is my line of work!


Ach I'll never grow old... age is just a number and all that crap.

I've already got short sightedness- and sadly I'm wearing bloody glasses more than I don't now sad.gif

By the time I'm 40 though (near 20 years to go!), these scientist types should have came up with like replacement eyes or something- or lasers which will sort out this vari-focual business.
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post Sat, 9 Feb 2013 - 23:09
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Too right GB - age is just a number, always remember that (and sadly no laser correction for presbyopia) sad.gif

Freaky how your eyesight changes over the years though - varifocals = thumbs up from me smile.gif
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post Wed, 19 Feb 2020 - 09:45
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QUOTE (susie_mcg @ Sat, 9 Feb 2013 - 00:11) *
Reading glasses and/or varifocals comes to most people at around 40. It's a condition called presbyopia and sadly laser doesn't correct it.

You'll be an old git too one day GB.

And just for the record I'm not at varifocal stage yet, this is my line of work!


Presbyopia is a condition associated with the aging of the eye that results in progressively worsening ability to focus clearly on close objects. Presbyopia treatments are:
Eyeglasses with progressive lenses
multifocal contact lenses
If you don't want to wear eyeglasses or contact lenses for presbyopia, a number of surgical options to treat presbyopia are available as well.
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post Wed, 19 Feb 2020 - 11:43
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I wear 1 contact lens. The contact lens is for distance and my right eye is for reading. They are also the night and day 1 month disposable.
Been doing it for at least 5 years and I was advised that it was okay and legal.


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QUOTE (Mayhem007 @ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 - 11:43) *
Been doing it for at least 5 years

So you started just 2 years after the last post in this thread (the last post until our newbie poster decided to resurrect it for some unknown reason this morning, anyway). smile.gif


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post Sat, 22 Feb 2020 - 18:08
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QUOTE (Fredd @ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 - 12:22) *
QUOTE (Mayhem007 @ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 - 11:43) *
Been doing it for at least 5 years

So you started just 2 years after the last post in this thread (the last post until our newbie poster decided to resurrect it for some unknown reason this morning, anyway). smile.gif


LOL I didn't spot that. In which case probably more like 8 years and need to revisit the optician, since I can't read dates. smile.gif




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I bet you clicked on a thead link at the bottom of the page like i did lol.

Re varifocals the issue i had was incorrect position of the reading lens. They werent close enough as your eye balls angle inwards slightly when focussing closeup compared to distance viewing. The result was havenig to focus with onenor the other eye not both. The optition, lets call the specsavers coz thats who they were, had 2 goes before getting it right and an "upgrade" to the most expensive option ie the widest undistorted field of view.
When sorted they were great apart from leaving a permanent dent in nose bridge thru wearing all the time which i didnt like then when they broke i could neither read nor see a distance till new ones were purchased.
Considering laser now, more practicle and cheaper in long run.
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post Sun, 23 Feb 2020 - 07:17
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QUOTE (mickR @ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 - 20:44) *
I bet you clicked on a thead link at the bottom of the page like i did lol.

Re varifocals the issue i had was incorrect position of the reading lens. They werent close enough as your eye balls angle inwards slightly when focussing closeup compared to distance viewing. The result was havenig to focus with onenor the other eye not both. The optition, lets call the specsavers coz thats who they were, had 2 goes before getting it right and an "upgrade" to the most expensive option ie the widest undistorted field of view.
When sorted they were great apart from leaving a permanent dent in nose bridge thru wearing all the time which i didnt like then when they broke i could neither read nor see a distance till new ones were purchased.
Considering laser now, more practicle and cheaper in long run.

Laser eye treatment cannot correct both distance vision & presbyopia so you will still need reading glasses.

In my own case I wear contacts at work with reading glasses if necessary. At home I prefer glasses removing them if necessary for reading & other close work.


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post Sun, 23 Feb 2020 - 16:02
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I have always been short sighted (did not realise until I had an eye test at age 11 - and subsequently realised why people said cinema was way better than video). Until about the age of 40 my near vision was exceptional - I used to be able to read a book resting on my nose (not entirely practical) and could easily read close up whilst wearing distance vision glasses.

Now I can comfortably read most things reasonably close up without glasses, and can generally read them noticably less comfortably wearing varifocals. Reading things up close wearing single vision (distance) glasses is an utter joke (and not in the good way). Unless a variation of Mayhem's one eye for distance thing works for me, laser correction is not an option - I can handle needing glasses (single vision or varifocal) for distances, but destroying what is left of my unaided near vision is not an option I would consider.

Getting back to the resurrected topic, when I first tried varifocals I found them to be hard work and pretty much gave up on them. A few months later, for whatever reason (probably mislaid my single vision glasses) I tried them again and almost immediately found them natural to wear.

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Just wait until you're in your seventies, and thankful for anything that helps keep you going (hearing aids, varifocals, implants - whatever) !

Seriously though, with varifocals, make sure that you choose large enough frames to allow for the varying focus to suit you. Some people like a wider reading area or a wider long distance area. Don't forget the very important middle area that you use to read the car dashboard (or, for that matter, your computer screen). Often a private optician can be more sympathetic with these variables than the large chains of opticians.

Get it right and you won't want to be without them.
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post Sun, 23 Feb 2020 - 18:09
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QUOTE (Lodesman @ Sun, 23 Feb 2020 - 17:30) *
Just wait until you're in your seventies, and thankful for anything that helps keep you going (hearing aids, varifocals, implants - whatever) !


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Don't forget the very important middle area that you use to read the car dashboard (or, for that matter, your computer screen). Often a private optician can be more sympathetic with these variables than the large chains of opticians.

Get it right and you won't want to be without them.


Yep driving, this is where i found them great, transition between looking up road and down to dash info.
Previously i had to forgo the distance correction (luckily its only minor) so i could have good vision of dash.
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QUOTE (mickR @ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 - 19:44) *
Considering laser now, more practicle and cheaper in long run.

In the long run there's cataract surgery - the result's like laser treatment, but on the NHS (or private medical insurance, if you have that) smile.gif. Of course you do have to be struggling badly with visual acuity and/or glare before the NHS will do it for free. Distance vision is 6/6 in both eyes now - although I do now have a wide selection of varifocals, occupational glasses and reading glasses for anything under about 3 or 4m away!


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My wife got varifocals last time she got new glasses about 8 months ago.
She can't get used to them at all and is going back to separate lenses.
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