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I started drilling, gave up, got in the car and drove to a supermarket where I bought some reading glasses, came back and was able to see what I was drilling!

I feel it is down hill from here :oops:

As a side note, any etchers here?
 

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I'm in the same boat. I've been wearing glasses (near-sighted) since grade 5 and switched to contacts in grade 12. Now at 48 my closeup vision is going a bit and they tried to get me into progressive glasses. I could not deal with it at all. I really tend to use my peripheral vision a ton, so with the glasses I constantly felt seasick. Then they tried having my contacts be one for distance, one for closeup. That was worse than the glasses. So now I'm back with normal contacts and will probably be grabbing some reading glasses very soon. Fun times!
 
Just got my first set of bifocals. Damn things have the transition right in the middle of the lense, so I have to tilt my head down to see far away, and up to see what I'm reading. I can get by without the reading glasses, but for driving I need that top portion and don't want my nose pointed at the floor of the frickn car.

I'll be taking the bifocals back, and if they can't make it 2/3 & 1/3 instead of 50/50, I'll just get reading glasses. In fact, even if they can do the correct fraction, I'll still get the readers.
 
I've been wearing progressive lenses for twenty years now, the first set of stairs was a challenge as I recall, but after a day or two have had no issues since
 
Harry Klippton said:
I posted this in another thread but I'm all about the magnifiers now. I wear contacts for astigmatism, which I didn't know I had til I got sober. What a bummer that was. Don't take your eyesight for granted

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I have had astigmatism for as long as I remember, but I didn't get my first set of glasses and wasn't diagnosed till I was in Jr high. Before then my family just called me "Squinty Joe" but no one ever thought to take me to a damn optometrist 🤣
 
I gotta get those goggles; Harry has inspired me to cross-breed the goggles with one of these:

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I'm lucky it's just in the last 18 months my eyes have stopped focusing quite as close as they uses to, thankfully it's not been a problem when reading or in everyday life, just SMD soldering and drilling small holes.

I did learn quickly yesterday not to look around the room while wearing the 2x magnification glasses, it made me feel a little :sick:
 
Barry said:
I've been wearing progressive lenses for twenty years now, the first set of stairs was a challenge as I recall, but after a day or two have had no issues since
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Where's the transition in yours?

I was told I'd get used to them, but honestly I don't want to get used to walking around with my head tilted down at odd angles — I'm already not level-headed at the best of times.

Also, the field of vision was described to me (for my lenses) as that of a "T" shape and indeed that seems to be the case. I've only had them about two weeks, wore them a fair amount the first 2-3 days, but haven't worn them enough since to get used to them 'cause as mentioned, the transition is annoyingly right in the middle of the lenses. The optometrist called them tri-focals, even though it's just two levels of correction. Maybe something's getting lost in translation at the optometrist's...


Meanwhile, back to the ol' magnifying-glass-gooseneck-lamp...
 
Feral Feline said:
Where's the transition in yours?

I was told I'd get used to them, but honestly I don't want to get used to walking around with my head tilted down at odd angles — I'm already not level-headed at the best of times.

Also, the field of vision was described to me (for my lenses) as that of a "T" shape and indeed that seems to be the case. I've only had them about two weeks, wore them a fair amount the first 2-3 days, but haven't worn them enough since to get used to them 'cause as mentioned, the transition is annoyingly right in the middle of the lenses. The optometrist called them tri-focals, even though it's just two levels of correction. Maybe something's getting lost in translation at the optometrist's...


Meanwhile, back to the ol' magnifying-glass-gooseneck-lamp...
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Progressives change gradually from top to bottom, I couldn't deal with bifocals either, so my distance is at the top and goes slowly to my close up towards the bottom
 
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