varifocals.

cfw1994

Well, 2 weeks in & I am still not convinced . I find the edges being 'blurry' very irritating (& yes, I spent out on the 'best' ones available). Driving is okay but has a faint feel of tunnel vision since things on my peripheral view are not clear.

I do know people who get on fine with them, and I can wear them okay, but I feel I would be "tolerating" the limitations rather than 'enjoying' wearing them. Does this sound odd?

Wondering whether to ask to try bifocals. Not bothered by whether they "age" me!
Any here who have switched to bifocals?

suki1964

cfw1994 wrote: »

Well, 2 weeks in & I am still not convinced . I find the edges being 'blurry' very irritating (& yes, I spent out on the 'best' ones available). Driving is okay but has a faint feel of tunnel vision since things on my peripheral view are not clear.

I do know people who get on fine with them, and I can wear them okay, but I feel I would be "tolerating" the limitations rather than 'enjoying' wearing them. Does this sound odd?

Wondering whether to ask to try bifocals. Not bothered by whether they "age" me!
Any here who have switched to bifocals?

Time to go back to optician to check fitting. Sometimes the actual glasses are not fitted correctly so you are forever looking out of the wrong part of the lens - very common if you are wearing small lenses

I have pretty narrow small lenses and I was told no chance of vari's but with very careful measurements and fittings they are grand. No blurring at all

Living_proof

CFW I was just thinking about this today. I have been wearing varifocals for about eight years now and a colleague was fitted at the same time. She had weeks of problems with hers - particularly down stairs and up kerbs, etc. whereas I was quite used to mine in just a few days. The reason this sprang to mind is that I am now considering contact lenses as the technology has moved on so much and quite honestly I think glasses are a complete pain. I would definitely persevere with the varifocals and keep going back to the optician who provided them until you are completely satisfied.

cfw1994

heading back to opticians tomorrow. Wore my old single vision specs for the first time yesterday & the blurry edges just disappeared......mutter mutter!