On Aug 28, 11:35 pm, Steevo <[email protected]> wrote:
> So any endorsements from anyone? Can anyone say they got good
> performing progressives online from anyone, and were able to adapt to
> them well?
I've been wearing progressives for many years now. My first several
pair came from b&m opticians, with the most recent (3 years ago)
costing over $600 for large titanium aviator frames.
I found that the larger the lens, the happier I was. And I do mean
LARGE -- lenses 45 - 50mm in height. (I do have a big Irish head,
though.) Switching amongst close reading, computer use, and distance
viewing sometimes minute by minute, I enjoy the "looseness" of the big
lenses, which don't force you to look through a tiny virtual "slit"
for that pesky 18-24" distance.
But I really don't like how I look in these immense glasses any more,
giant head notwithstanding. So they stay at home, where only my wife
has to look at them.
No online vendors sell plastic or ti frames that big anyway (that I
can find). I would buy them as sunglasses if I could find them. Any
other frame material corrodes on my skin. ("Stainless" steel? Hah! I
have permanent scars on my temples from your corroded "stainless
steel" frames!)
So the progressives I wear in public came from Zenni, and I am very
happy with them. I have two pair, both rimless, and both use the
largest lenses Zenni offers (221-54Wx41H Extra Large). One is Frame #
3149 ("bendable titanium)", and the other is Frame #3411 ("hingeless
memory plastic" in transparent - almost invisible when worn!).
The first one is my full progressive prescription. For the second, I
modified the prescription so that the top section is the distance
value as usual, but the bottom is my "computer" prescription. I tried
this because I realize that I don't usually read up close with my
glasses anyway, and if I'm just going to take them off maybe a milder
gradient that has more area focusing on the middle distance would be
more useful. This worked out OK, especially when working with a
laptop.
In practice, though, I find the most useful new glasses are my single-
vision "computer glasses" (Zenni #3122), which are single-vision
glasses where the entire lens focuses at that 18-24" distance. Since I
spend much of my day in front of computer screens, these turned out to
actually replace most of the functionality of progressives while being
much more comfortable (I don't have to move my whole head to "aim" my
progressives at the part of the screen I'm trying to see). I now keep
a pair next to each of my workstations at home and at the office.
A word about adapting to glasses. This used to be a huge problem for
me. It would take weeks, sometimes, with multiple visits to the
optician, before the glasses stopped making me dizzy or giving me
headaches. I always thought there was something wrong with me, and the
opticians did nothing to disabuse me of that impression. So I was
understandably concerned about what would happen with online glasses,
particularly progressives, with their lack of support or full return/
exchange privileges.
Imagine my amazement when my first pair of Zenni progressives arrived.
I put them on, and was *instantly* comfortable! There was no
transition period at all. And this has been true of all 8 pairs of
glasses I've ordered from two different online vendors.
So in the end, while I endorse Zenni's progressives based on my own
experience, it's in the context of the whole new world of online
eyewear, where glasses are so cheap and easy to acquire that having
several pairs, including situational glasses that you can leave behind
in the places where you use them, is suddenly possible. I don't use my
progressives, or rely on them, in the same way I once did, when they
were my only glasses because I could only afford one pair.
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