Struggling with new glasses

Magic Mouse · 28 Oct 20, 03:41 PM

I’ve worn reading glasses for years and also have a pair of occupational varifocals for work.

Had an eye test a couple of weeks ago and the optician recommended another pair of the occupational varifocals with slightly stronger prescription and also a pair of normal varifocals for driving, etc.

I’ve collected them today and the occupational ones are fine but I’m really struggling with the others. The distance part is great but I can’t seem to get to grips with the reading bit. Now it’s obviously the same prescription as the occupational ones but wherever I look and however I tilt my head, I can’t get it quite right!

They did say I need to persevere for a week or so. Has anyone else had similar problems?

**BevS97** · 28 Oct 20, 03:44 PM

I found this when I first got varifocals but I love them now.

I think the zones are in a different place on occupational lenses to suit a screen. So you will need to train yourself to find the correct zone with your other glasses on.

I’d give it a week before worrying too much.

sully301 · 28 Oct 20, 03:46 PM

If you don't think they're right take them back. I had this last year and the prescription was way out.

minnie 12 · 28 Oct 20, 03:48 PM

Same here I was actually just adjusting mine to read comments on the dibb and yours was first thing I read 😂 just takes a little time

Magic Mouse · 28 Oct 20, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by sully301

If you don't think they're right take them back. I had this last year and the prescription was way out.

This what I’m worried about as the reading part in the occupational ones are fine but with the other pair I just can’t seem to get it right!

**caj** · 28 Oct 20, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by sully301

If you don't think they're right take them back. I had this last year and the prescription was way out.

Me too. A pair of sunglasses that were fine and normal varifocals that made me feel seasick! They checked them and they were very different!

Mel49 · 28 Oct 20, 03:50 PM

I'd suggest taking them back to have the lens/prescription checked. DH had a problem with his first pair and there was actually a fault with where they'd put the "line" (sorry don't know the technical name) but his replacement pair was fine.

Magic Mouse · 28 Oct 20, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by HappyHaunt13

Hello!

Optician here...

In normal varifocals the position of the reading portion of the lens will begin slightly lower down than the occupational lenses and will also be a smaller area (due to the lens having to fit three prescriptions instead of two)

Do you find reading becomes clearer if you lift the glasses slightly? If yes you may to return to your Optician for some adjustments either to the frame or they may need to remake the lenses with a slightly different height measurement.

Wow! Thank you so much for this.

If I push the frame up slightly I can see perfectly! But they won’t stay in that position on their own. I’ll give the optician a call.

Thanks again, that’s brilliant👍

Trouble3 · 28 Oct 20, 04:01 PM

I've had varifocals for a few years now and never had a problem with them; walked out wearing them and never had any issues.

In August I needed to see the optician due to vertigo/nystagmus (GP advised it). My prescription had changed slightly for the worse in the reading bit, so I chose new glasses and then waited for them to come in.

These new glasses I struggled with, badly, just couldn't read with them. Realised that the lenses were crooked on one side. Took them back. New lenses put in, waited for them to arrive and took them home. Still couldn't get on with them, still a massive struggle to focus when reading. Took them back.

This time I got a chap that'd been at the store for donkeys years and actually knew what he was talking about. He said I'd chosen frames that were much larger than my current frames and it looked like my eyes couldn't cope with the range. New frames chosen, almost the same size as my current ones and now I'm waiting for the new glasses to come in. Fingers crossed.

Did you know that there are two types of varifocal lenses? I didn't know, till all this palaver. My current lense has more "intermediate viewing" (i.e. PC/Dashboard). I tried the one with less intermediate, which gives more Reading viewing, but couldn't get on with them at all; although I read easier, I felt like the world wobbled when I looked off to the side etc... made me feel sick.