Bifocal Eyeglasses

This is a timely thread-bump. I have an eye appointment on Friday; it seems like I'm having a hard time seeing clearly these days. I'm hoping that my cataracts have finally gotten bad enough to have surgery, but if not I definitely need new glasses. I wear progressive lenses.

 

My brother recently got his cataracts removed. He got a laser procedure and had trifocal lens' inserted. I didn't know such things were even available. He was able to drive one day after surgery and he wears no glasses at all now. He used to wear them for reading. I don't think those facilities are available here but if I have to have them done, I would certainly look into it.

 

I didn't check any further after I was told that I couldn't have both transitional and no lined bifocals. I ended up with lined bifocals with transitional lenses. I only wear them as a back up.

 

I love transition lenses. I was always squinting in bright sun and had to use clip-on sun shades before they came out. The older lenses faded out in a few years, but the newer ones last longer. If you only need backup glasses it doesn't make sense to pay a lot for glasses. Just letting you know you CAN get both.

 

I got progressive lenses once and took them back for regular bifocals. I didn't like hunting for the sweet spot to see what I wanted to look at, and deemed them dangerous when looking out the side mirror when driving. By time I figured it out, I could have had an accident.

 

That is what I have been told by several optometrists; once you are accustomed to lined bifocals, progressives bug you trying to find the sweet spot if you are over 50.

 

I never had lined bifocals. I went straight from single lens to progressives. It took a few days but I didn't have any problem with them. I've probably been wearing progressives for 7 or 8 years now.

 

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I have worn only progressive lens from the start, 30 years ago. I am lucky that we have a place that does all their lens in house. I have progressive, transition, glare coating, prisms, and some other treatment I can't remember, in or on my lens.

My latest ones that I got a few days ago, have USA made frames, so my entire specs are all USA crafted.

Best way to get Medicare to pay for cataract surgery is to harp about how blurry and brown your eyesight is. My glaucoma would not have gotten so bad if I had switched doctors. The guy I have now has no financial interest in the eyeglasses place next door, so he takes vison problems like cataracts more serious and recommends surgery rather than sell you new lens every 6 months.

The guy I had before, sold me 6 lens and frames in 6 months. At $600 each, that was $3600 in two years. Now I get all the goodies and high quality frames, once a year, for $360. The other guy, the glasses sales manic/optometrist finally sent me to a surgeon when my pressures were dangerously high. Lucky I didn't lose more eyesight than I did. Your eyes are too important to settle for poor eyewear and lousy doctors.

 

Haha! Progressive in eyeglass lens are the choice of stanch conservatives, those that want to conserve on eyestrain. Bi and trifocals are for radicals, those that like extremes with no middle ground.