I hear you and feel your pain! I am very nearsighted too (working distance about 2 inches or less without glasses) and normally have to wear trifocals now. I have actually done wihat you are talking about in the past when I needed near vision both looking down for reading and looking up (to read titles of books on shelves) when I managed a bookstore a few years back. I did have a pair of occupational bifocals once (near seg at both top and bottom) but they cost me close to a second mortgage! The Optx stick on lenses, while not as good, were certainly serviceable. One hint. I found that by cutting them down quite a bit it worked better for me. As an alternative, have you considered multifocal contacts? Many of the designs they have these days do not depend on the lenses moving on the eye so they provide near and distance vision no matter which way you look. There is also monovision correction with contacts, which I used successfully for many years and, once I got adapted (which took about a month) solved the problem for me perfectly.
On Oct 19, 10:35 pm, nerdful1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am very satisfied with the test glasses I bought from eyebuy direct. > A pair of sunglasses and frame with the works for under 30.00. > I need glasses to do my technical work on site. > I am nearsighted, in 50's and enjoyed contacts for 15 years. > Now my corrected far vision would make me have reading glasses if I > wanted to keep wearing contacts, and I've tried bifocal types etc. > With present glasses correcting for far vision, I usually look over > top of them or take them off for close work. > This wrecks the safety if I am soldering or something. > An appliance repairman showed his glasses, they had close up in top of > lens. > This is what I want. > Imagine being an auto tech, you have your computer or repair diagrams > in hand, and even with nearsighted glasses you can glance down at it, > at a distance, or use normal bifocal lower lens. but you have to look > closely at an item on the lift. > Try creaking your neck to use close up bifocal at bottom of lens, > or take them off and lose safety. > Or calibrating home theater as I do, I need to read my instruments and > laptop, then look behind usually black equipment for connection and > model number reading. > I am nearsighted without glasses to no more than 18" away now. > I can't read back of equipment near wall with glasses off, and present > glasses I am too close. And hate cricking neck for embedded close up > lens at bottom. > > Nutshell: > I would like to get bifocal with reading at top. > temp solution: Buy large, like aviator lens frames and use optx 20/20 > stickon lenses on top, if it works. > find online source of upper bifocal lens after trying stickons. > Anyone try stickons on top? > thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Check us out at the oft-updated http://www.glassyeyes.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
