This is true. Dollar store readers have 2 things working against
them...one is the wrong pupilary distance (of higher importance in
higher correction) and the other is a lack of your astigmatism
correction.
Do you have a single vision pair of distance glasses? If not, just do
this with your progressives, but with the top part only.
You take your normal distance prescription glasses and put them on.
Then you try on the readers *over* them...this maintains your
astigmatism correction, Then, by adding correction, you see what
strengths work for you. (It's the same thing they do at the eye
doctor's...just a low tech version of it)
I wish I knew who originally posted this technique...I'd give them
credit. It worked great for my mom, when she ordered her bifocals.
-- Chuck Knight
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:01 PM, mandy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ha, Pepper:
>
> That's just the thinking I was doing. Answer is my odometer is hard to
> read no matter what and the fault seems to be with the vehicle's
> display backlighting arrangement, not my eyes or corrective lenses.
> The speedometer is more relevant than the odometer, and yes, I'll
> check what happens without the current progressive lenses.
>
> I also answered powrwrap's helpful post but accidentally sent the
> response directly to him. At 6" I can see my thumb fine without
> glasses but at 4" my eyes cross, hee hee. But my right eye has a
> damaged macula from the 1972 surgery to correct the detaching retina,
> and this eye has wandered to the right ever since and is difficult to
> bring into focus, especially close. So his question did catch me out
> on extreme close vision. I seem to do best at demanding close vision
> tasks at about 8 to 15", without eyeglasses. What scares me is that
> with my current glasses, this close vision is impossible now. But it
> is only a week until I see the optometrist for the second opinion.
> Meanwhile, due to the way my progressives function, I can see fine to
> drive but must use the center of the lenses instead of the top. The
> ophthomologist explained the lesser correction is currently needed due
> to developing cataracts that are not yet operable.
>
> With cheap store +2 readers, my reading vision is badly distorted. But
> at the local glasses shop, the proprietor explained to me that +2
> readers are quite different than the +2 reading section of a
> progressive lense that also has my nearsightedness and astigmatism
> correction. So maybe I can't dispense with progressives but will also
> ask the optometrist next week. Duh!
>
> On Jan 11, 12:07 am, pepper in seattle <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Here's a test if you need progressives. When you are driving the car
>> can you read the Freeway signs and the odometer at the same time,
>> whithout changing glasses?
>
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