Seeking advice on magnifiers

How much magnification?

One can have special glasses made to put the best-focus distance (from your nose tip) pretty well anywhere. I have working glasses set to

When getting the prescription, especially for close work, make sure that the ophthalmologist does the final adjustment with both of your eyes open, or the eyes are likely to fight, which will soon tire the eyes.

Joe Gwinn

Right now about 1X seems good for computer reading, but 2X seems right for reading. Tomorrow will be the last day of drops, have an appointment with the optometrist the fifth of June. Last appointment with to opthamologist on the first, the surgery center does not do glasses.

Probably will end up with glasses, but colors are brighter and night vision has returned and won't be going blind all good things.

Have you considered getting a set of safety Glasses that are ground so the both the near, the intermediate and the far can be seen.

My glasses have multiple grindings in the glass that lets me read work on the computer, and see things at a distance. They are continuously ground (no line)

Considering a lot of things, with choices comes not real sure as to what will work have tried some bifocal readers but they are my wifes and she likes small lenses, so not a real good test for me.

I can’t offer any suggestions because I chose to eliminate the need for glasses when I had cataract surgery about 6 months ago. It wasn’t cheap, but I had Panoptix Trifocal lenses put in and haven’t worn glasses, other than basic safety glasses, since.

The lenses are pretty cool. They use a set of concentric circles which are each set, based on my prescription, for various distances. It took a few months for my brain to sort out all the incoming “data”, sort of like progressive lenses - which I hated and could never get used to. The main difference is that it all comes in at once, i.e. no head or eye movement like progressives or bifocals, the brain just figures it out. It’s called “neuroadaptation”.

Anyway, like I said, it wasn’t cheap ($6K-ish) but well worth the money. 20-20 vision, no more blinding headlight glare, no more “fog”. I joked with SWMBO that I could get some of that money back by selling some of the extra lights I’ve installed in the shop, basement and garage over the past few years. ;-)

Vivity Toric lenses are what I had selected out of the three offering. So far distance vision is good, close is getting better. I have worn glasses since 5 years old, my vision was far sighted in the left and near sighted in the right. An astigmatism if the left eye but it is vertical on just the upper half of the eye. I am familar with neuroadaptation, I think my brain has been doing it since I was young. When I played baseball, I never wore my glasses pitching but did when batting. Plays with head of the other team.

So tonight looking at the cresent moon I see two images, which is better than four to three with the cataracts.

At last check two weeks ago, left eye was at 20/40. Definitely see clearer through both eyes.

The thought was I should be 20/20 that is yet to be determined.

Driving without glasses is not a problem.

I was not talking about bifocal reader that were of someone else's prescription, but one developed for you personally from a licensed optometrist.

I understood what you said thanks for the input.

Me too, last year. I ordered an inexpensive pair of bifocal Cardhart safety glasses from Amazon. No magnification on top but slightly magnified on the bottom for close up.

I pretty much got the same but do need 1.25 for up close in dim lighting. Other wise in daylight I'm good to go with just sunglasses.