Speaking of Vision -- How 'bout Progressive Bifocals?

them to be better (for me) than the bifocals. About 8 months ago I got a
new prescription and had the lenses made at LensCrafters. They never
worked very well (the hour glass was too narrow and so peripheral vision
was very restricted). I had a new pair made, but this time I told them to
use Varilux lenses and not their in house brand (my initial progressives
were Varilux). I am now happy again with my new progressives.

Thanks, Cary. My family has used Lenscrafters for many years, but they DO
have a problem with quality control.

A couple of prescriptions back, they made a lens that had a "wave" in it
that drove me nuts. I eventually had them re-make it. My current glasses
came in earlier this week, but one of the lenses was scratched, so they are
re-making it. (They discovered this before I did, thankfully.)

Of course, given all the glasses they have made for us over the years (we
now ALL wear prescription glasses, with Mary "joining the fun" with her
reading glasses), that's a small -- but measurable -- number.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Just thought I'd chime in with what I do... I am nearsighted,
astigmatic, and now presbyopic (the old man's eye problem

I have a single vision (distance) lens in my left eye (I fly from the
left seat) and a bifocal in the right eye, with the line 2 mm lower than
usual, to read my charts with. This has worked well for a few years,
but now I may need to move the line up so I can read my instrument
panel. The bifocal is just a +1 or so - whatever the least amount they
can put in is. I tried higher amounts but they don't work for me since
I don't like the different sized views I get from each lens (the bifocal
part gives a bigger image).

One optometrist would absolutely not fill my prescription - he didn't
think it was "a good idea". My wife also had a problem with some
glasses she bought (wavy distortions) and he absolutely would not
believe her, nor would he look through the lens himself. Alas, he died a
week later and we got everything straightened out.

Jose
--
The price of freedom is... well... freedom.
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One optometrist would absolutely not fill my prescription - he didn't
think it was "a good idea". My wife also had a problem with some glasses
she bought (wavy distortions) and he absolutely would not believe her, nor
would he look through the lens himself. Alas, he died a week later and we
got everything straightened out.

A harsh, but effective, way to clear up a customer service problem... :-)

Well, I'm typing this whilst looking through my new "progressive" lenses.
So far, I am VERY impressed. I have both sharpened my distance vision (the
doc "tweaked" that prescription a notch for me) *and* I can now see up
close.

No nausea or vertigo noted. Going up and down steps is fine. The only
unusual thing I've noted is this:

When sitting at my desk (or a table -- something with a straight edge for
reference), if I look down through the "close" vision part of the lenses
whilst turning my head from side to side, I can make the table "rock" up and
down, back and forth. It's rather disconcerting (and sorta fun, in small
doses), but the effect goes away when I focus through the "distance" part of
the lens -- so I don't anticipate that this will cause me any undo problems.

Thus -- other than my lenses being FAR too thick (like, half again thicker
than my former lenses, supposedly due to the "frameless" style Mary selected
for me) I like 'em a lot!

Thanks to everyone for the input -- it's been very educational.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"
"Jose" wrote in message
. net...
Just thought I'd chime in with what I do... I am nearsighted, astigmatic,
and now presbyopic (the old man's eye problem

I have a single vision (distance) lens in my left eye (I fly from the left
seat) and a bifocal in the right eye, with the line 2 mm lower than usual,
to read my charts with. This has worked well for a few years, but now I
may need to move the line up so I can read my instrument panel. The
bifocal is just a +1 or so - whatever the least amount they can put in is.
I tried higher amounts but they don't work for me since I don't like the
different sized views I get from each lens (the bifocal part gives a
bigger image).


Jose
--
The price of freedom is... well... freedom.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

In article yY4ig.1012801$xm3.53417@attbi_s21,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Thus -- other than my lenses being FAR too thick (like, half again thicker
than my former lenses, supposedly due to the "frameless" style Mary selected
for me) I like 'em a lot!

My wife's vision is so bad, I have to go with her to pick out the frames
because she cannot see what she looks like without lenses in the bare
frames.
So that I don't have to hear:
"What were you thinking when you picked these frames for me?"
We now have a digital camera solve that problem.