Glasses Update at 48 hours

@Bensen32 (28040)
United States
February 9, 2025 8:29am CST
I don’t know if you all seen my post that I was getting glasses or not. I finally got them and I’m not sure I like them at all. Here’s a little update and my thoughts about them. So, the good part first. They do overall help me see a better I can tell that much. Things about ten feet or more from me are much clearer. I guess they are doing their job for distant things. The bad though I think out does the good. Since they are bifocals, the close-up stuff, I must lower my eyes to get the bifocals in the right place. That means anything in the one foot to about five feet is out of focus and blurry and I don’t think it’s supposed to work like that. Maybe I am just not used to it, but I feel like I am in a fishbowl with the way things seem closer to me than they really are now that I can see them clearer than I was seeing them. I have only had them since Friday so it’s been less than 48 hours so hopefully, I will get used to them soon. It is odd for me to see the frames right in front of my eyes. I guess I will get used to that over time. I usually wear wraparound sunglasses, so I don’t see the frames as much as I seen these. Speaking of sunglasses, now I have like 3 nice pairs of sunglasses that I don’t know what to do with. Well that is my take at this time on the glasses.
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@kareng (68245)
• United States
9 Feb
I have heard that complaint form several people with bifocals and one reason that I never got them. My eye doctor that I was going to at the time and is retired now, told me that he made the same decision. He just takes his glasses off when all the up close and personal stuff is going on. I do the same when I'm reading a book. Just take the glasses off. I hope you adjust to your glasses and they work out for you.
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@Bensen32 (28040)
• United States
9 Feb
Thank you. The issue is things I read I have to hold away from me or it is all blurry.
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@kareng (68245)
• United States
9 Feb
@Bensen32 Hope you adjust, but sounds like you may need your prescription adjusted!
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@Bensen32 (28040)
• United States
10 Feb
@kareng maybe, I'm going to give it some time and see if I get used to it since I never had glasses before.
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@DaddyEvil (141896)
• United States
9 Feb
I tried bi-focals and didn't like them... I really only need glasses for distance vision so I wear mine when I'm driving and don't bother with wearing them otherwise. If I'm walking, I can see clearly enough not to step on a snake or walk off a cliff. I don't care if I can't see individual leaves on a tree twenty feet away from me. I bought new glasses two years ago and just leave them in my car. I have clip-on sunshields that slip onto my glasses when I'm driving and regular wraparound sunglasses I wear when I'm not wearing my glasses.
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@DaddyEvil (141896)
• United States
9 Feb
@Bensen32 Oh, I see. Sorry about that.
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@Bensen32 (28040)
• United States
9 Feb
Yeah I can see enough to not crash into things, but things are blurry at certain distances.
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@Bensen32 (28040)
• United States
9 Feb
@DaddyEvil thanks, oh well life could be worse so I will try not to complain too much :)
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@andriaperry (118289)
• Anniston, Alabama
9 Feb
I once had bi- focals couldn't wear them. $500 down the drain. My vision got better with vitamins so all I need now are reading glasses, if the print is small.
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@Bensen32 (28040)
• United States
9 Feb
Maybe my vision will get better but doubt it since they got worse over time, Im not sure they will ever get better
@grenery8 (13515)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
9 Feb
i wear only glasses for the distance and things are too clear for me. for close things, i take them off. ah, glasses, always something with them.
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@Bensen32 (28040)
• United States
9 Feb
Yeah, I'm not a fan of them at this point, hoping I get use to them.
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@grenery8 (13515)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
11 Feb
@Bensen32 i hope you will too.
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@lilacskies (4760)
• United States
9 Feb
I don't wear glasses, but I do need to see my eye doctor this year for my annual checkup. I nearly forgot about that.
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@Bensen32 (28040)
• United States
10 Feb
I never did for years till I finally admitted to myself I really can't see as well as I did and should get them checked.
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@Bensen32 (28040)
• United States
11 Feb
@lilacskies I never even thought about it much and certainly did not get annually, be a good 30 years or so.
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• United States
11 Feb
@Bensen32 I try to get that annual checkup done every year, but it's easier said than done.
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