Bifocals!!!!!

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It is happening, dammit!

My already sadly myopic eyes are starting to have trouble with the fine print.

I mean - you didn't oughta hafta have myopia AND long-sightedness as well - but there it is. Waaaaaaaaaaaah.

I shall soon have to surrender and get the dreaded bifocals.

Just how bad are they, folks? Any hints about what to get, not get???

It is soooo gonna be wrinkles soon, I just know it.
Embarrassed

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Not to worry, Deb. Just get the no line type. It gives one balance and even enhances the mystique, but most importantly, you'll be able to read.

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Just take your glasses off to read...bi focals of any kind are a pain in the ass.....

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Since I have to wear glasses for reading as well, I'm wearing bifocals.

I'd never had any difficulties with them.

Okay, the last time I got new ones, my banc account got a little bit stressed, but now I've got the smallest, leightweightest ... you could buy a year ago [got them then]: pic

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Bi-Polar Bear wrote:

Just take your glasses off to read...bi focals of any kind are a pain in the ass.....

I'm too short-sighted to do that!!!!!

Unless the page is a couple of inches from my eyes!!!

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Letty wrote:

Not to worry, Deb. Just get the no line type. It gives one balance and even enhances the mystique, but most importantly, you'll be able to read.

No line, eh?

Balance? Mystique?

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Deb, the kind that I wear are very lightweight and small. You can't tell one thing about the bi focal part. Somehow, the lens makers just blend the lower part right in with the upper part. I'll search around for a link, and perhaps a picture to show you.

As for the mystique and balance, a jazz musician who wore glasses with no glass in them, once said, "Man, they give me balance and mystique." lol.

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Here ya go:

http://www.framesdirect.com/varilux-progressive-info.asp

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Aaaaaah! Well, if they DID give balance and mystique, I have had it since I was eight!

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Hmmm - mebbe bifocals are out for me?

The bi seems to be between ok sight at long distances, to bad sight close up.

I can't see clearly more than an inch or two in front of my eyes - and now cannot see properly to read with me short sight glasses.

I don't know if they can bi-foc between two such things!!!!!

Hmmm - mebbe it would be between me normal prescription, and a weaker one?

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I hate bifocals. You've got to find the 'sweet spot' to read anything and it's a major pain. I haven't been wearing mine so naturally, my eyes are getting progressively worse. I've been using a magnifying glass to read and that works well. I'm thinking about putting one of those stylish magnifying glasses on a chain to wear around my neck. I'd prefer that to the bifocals.

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Well, honey. See an ophthalmologist first, then you'll get a scrip for the glasses.

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|I had cataract surgery a few years ago, I was told I was really young to have them.

They did one eye and while they were in there put in a permanent corrective lense. VERY cool and no sight problems. The other eye is now ready for the surgery so I will have that one implanted while they're in there as well.

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INSERTED LENS????????????

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You are very young for such a thing, bear - I would have thought. Any ideas why it happened?

If I could afford it I would have the lasik surgery - but I would then have to wear reading glasses. It doesn't correct long sight.

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Letty wrote:

Well, honey. See an ophthalmologist first, then you'll get a scrip for the glasses.

Oh - I will - for the straight dope.

I was just wondering what it is like to WEAR the things!

Eoe - that sounds very Grande Dame! A magnifying glass on a chain! One could make SUCH gestures.

Hmmmmmmm......and it would be useful for nature study.....

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And burning the untoward if in the sun.....teehee....

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no idea...cataracts run in my family...I am also pre glaucomic......maybe I need to smoke pot again....just trying to see the glass half full :wink:

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Poor Bear!

As you say though, forced to smoke dope MEDICINALLY!

Is it allowed in the states for glaucoma?

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dlowan wrote:

Poor Bear!

As you say though, forced to smoke dope MEDICINALLY!

Is it allowed in the states for glaucoma?

no but no one pays attention.........

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Bifocals!!!!!

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