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Varifocals have always worked well for me, from the very first pair, and even with the small frames that most of us wear these days. I do sometimes wear contact lenses, but they are not varifocal, so I need to wear a distance lens in one eye and a close up in the other. Sounds weird but it works surprisingly well.
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OriginalGriff wrote: How many of us lot here use glasses / contacts / binoculars these days?
Had glasses from around 20 years old but switched for contacts for a long, long time. Had Lasik just over 3 years ago and have been free of glasses/lenses ever since 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I bought a pair of variable focus glasses from the pharmacy last week. What junk! Everything is distorted. My computer monitor appeared to be twice as wide at the bottom than the top! I immediately returned them in exchange for a fixed focus pair that works great for computer viewing.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I had that with a pair of bloody expensive reading glasses from a f@rt@rsy, overpaid optician. Books looked like trapezoids.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: trapezoids
Yeah! That's the word I was looking for. The computer screen looked like a trapezoid. My eyes felt cross-eyed.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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What a coincidence ... I was at the optician's the other day and you'll never guess who I bumped into?!
Everyone 
I'll get my coat ...
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I went for the laser treatment in 2003 after wearing glasses for nearly ten years and I'd do it again at twice the price.
They can do one eye for nearsightedness, and the other for farsightedness. The brain somehow has the ability to compensate and make everything look in focus even in those cases.
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I have that with my contact lenses.
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Interesting. Are your contacts interchangeable, or do you always have to use the same for the left and the other for the right?
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Right eye for close up, left for distance; based on which is the dominant eye (in my case right).
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Had the same thing done when they removed my cataracts. Left eye for close, right eye for distance.
Middle eye for double click.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
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I wear progressives (trifocals) for the most part. When I started wearing them, I had the same problems you are experiencing now. Unfortunately, I have to go back and get a new prescription, because my eyes have gotten worse. Not looking forward to going through that again. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Picked up my annual new-pair last week. Progressives.
These are a type produced by Shamir (vs. Varilux), and the field of view is quite large (and they cost $195 US extra, above what my vision plan will cover). Nearsighted+astigmatic. These are the next-gen computer generated version and hence the wider field, covering most of the lens.
One note - for your next time: I've had them put the computer-distance as the central vision point for years. Looking straight ahead at my monitors is the most relaxed state. The infinity focus is a bit higher on the lens.
One thing I've noted (not yet with this pair) is that they've seemed to get deep scratches more easily - which is something I've never had at all, before. Deliberately softer plastic?
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I always had much better than normal eyesight. Could always recognize traffic signs on up to twice the distance to other people.
It came as a nasty surprise when I suddenly needed reading glasses and terminal glasses.
Well, that's what growing old is doing to you I suppose.
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Try these: ULTRA for Presbyopia Contact Lenses[^]
I wear these for a week at a time (waking/sleeping) and have done for years. Replace them every 4 weeks. Never had an issue and no need to carry any glasses around.
Or you could try mono-vision which I tried before the varifocal lenses - not as good but ok.
Glasses are so 20th century... 
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I have progressive lenses, basically bifocals without the transition line. It took me a while to get use to them too, especially when it came doing work with a rake right at my feet. I remember the whole disorienting feeling, even just about falling over a couple times because I had difficulty telling which way was vertical. It took about a week before my brain adjusted to the information my eyes were feeding it.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Yeah, been there. My last checkup revealed signs of cataracts, so I had the surgery and the 'sucked' my lenses out of my eyes and replaced them with plastic ones. I now revel in 20/20 vision with just a cool pair of Raybans. (I had been wearing glasses or contacts since almost 60 yers ago).
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. - Lazarus Long
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I've found varifocals help with reading and distance vision, but do nothing to help me with working at my computer, which is what I do for about 12 hours a day. As a result, I work without glasses when working at my computer.
/ravi
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I got my first pair of varifocals a couple of months ago(I am 47 so and was starting to find I had to take my spectacles glasses off to read a book my kindle).
I went to specsavers and decided to spend a bit more money top get the one down from top range varifocals, which even with my contact lens reduction came to a lot of money.
I have not noticed a huge difference, perhaps because I went more for the top of the range varificals I don't seem to have had any issues.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Stupid glasses...
I had headaches without them...
At least mine are not varifocals (or whatever it is called)...
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I don't have prescription glasses as I don't need it. I have tried sunglasses and after a minute or so it gives me headache so no glasses ever. Except when I have to look cool in a pic.
At my previous test, they told my vision and hearing are incredibly good. I can really hear faintest of noises in the house. Few days back I could hear water dripping from tap in the toilet at home. Mind you it was in the bedroom, the door was closed and I was on the couch watching something on YouTube.
My sense of smell is horrible. I think I just can't smell unless it is horrible.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Also how did you predict today's Google doodle?
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Can you send me this Saturday's lottery numbers, please.
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