TOT: Mam Tor

When I first used varifocals, newspaper text seem to be in a curve upwards at the edges of vision. Butm they were so useful that I perservered with them. My brain now compensates and tehn lines look straight.

Mo too

I did much the same with my latest pair and am really pleased with them, well worth the extra money.

Mine are OK for driving, but for long periods, especially at night where it is more critical, I find that it can be uncomfortable having to bend my neck to ensure I peer through the top section, and have a distance pair to hand.

I also use these to get a full field of view at the theatre, or in a setting where I may need to lift my head to look over people.

I have an intermediate pair for my twin-screen computer setup, and they came in very handy when decorating, as I could see to fill cracks in the ceiling.

Chris

Same here. I used to manage with the right eye for distance vision (could have done with weak glasses even then) and the left eye for vision only inside the car.

With the left eye gone, it was hard to see the instruments!

I now have very large lensed bifocals, with the division arranged so that it's just above the dashboard. Works really well.

And well worth asking for the "intermediate" prescription: it is not automatically provided. I _think_ it's not even required as part of an NHS examination, although I've never had an optometrist refuse to give it when asked.

Two fishbowls stuck to the bottom part of the field of view.

Anything between days to a few months, and the brain adjusts, and you don't see it anymore.

Thomas Prufer

The advice I got, and which works for me, was to point my nose at what I was looking at. It soon becomes automatic, though beware of walking into things if you're concentrating on ground conditions in difficult terrain!

There are varifocals and varifocals: the cheaper ones have a narrower field of vision.

I noticed that at first but soon got used to it. It's not an issue now.

Before I got varifocals I had bifocals with the lower area set for reading and the upper for computer. Seriously useful.

I've had varifocals for 30 years too, only starting to have difficulties recently because my prescription is changing very rapidly at the minute (is obsolete after six months).

While I agree about the nose pointing, that's less easy when at a give way sign where the road joins the larger road at an angle. To point my nose to look for traffic from the right at that junction requires turning my head by 120deg - not so easy. That's where one needs the peripheral vision.

So if you had to tilt your head back to focus on infinity presumably the area of lens near the top was such that it focused beyond infinity?

Bill

Yes I have a pair like that.

Bill

That's OK in a car - I have a pair of bifocals for screen and keboard/paperwork, so somewhat similar. In these examples, the horizontal line is fairly predictable (bit more variable for desk/PC use). I considered a pair of bifocals for walkin/reading, but even with just distance glasses I can't really look down enough for stairs; I'm better without the glasses then, so rough going would be rather fraught with bifocals.

And thus discovered Buzz Lightyear.

Oh but the temptation to try them on when I get back from work and find the postman has delivered them will be strong.

Point noted;-)

I paid £££ for the lenses with the widest field of view.

Delivered by post? Better to be in the optician's so they can fit the frame to your prescription.

I made a mistake with my first pair by choosing a frame that took fairly small lenses and I had a lot of problems with peripheral vision.

Since then, I've always chosen a frame that takes large lenses and pay the extra for SpecSavers superior lenses (which isn't a lot, as I recall).

Since then I've had no problems.

What's your distance eyesight like?

Since having cataracts removed from both eyes, I no longer need glasses for dirance vision for the first time since I was

I still have some residual astigmatism but, if your distance vision isn't too bad, you are welcome to try mine out the next time you come down.