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Eyes, why are they like this
I had an eye exam today, and assumed beforehand that I needed new glasses due to eyestrain while reading. It turns out that my prescription hasn't changed. What's changed is that my focal depth has gotten more restrictive. In spring 2021, when I got my last reading glasses update, I could use the same prescription to read at a computer screen distance (arm's length) and a comfortable book-holding distance (which is closer); now this no longer works.
For now I'm going to keep the same pair - I mean, the computer is the more vital of the two, and I can compensate by holding the book farther away. My optometrist thinks I really should start thinking about progressives, but I don't wanna. ;__; I'm only 46!!
I'm curious, though - for those of you who are glasses wearers and are hitting an age when you're starting to have divergent prescriptions for reading and distance, how do you handle it?
(One handy trick I've been using when drawing is that you can slide the frames down your nose and change the prescription to a more up-close focus that way. This doesn't work for reading because it messes with my astigmatism, though.)
For now I'm going to keep the same pair - I mean, the computer is the more vital of the two, and I can compensate by holding the book farther away. My optometrist thinks I really should start thinking about progressives, but I don't wanna. ;__; I'm only 46!!
I'm curious, though - for those of you who are glasses wearers and are hitting an age when you're starting to have divergent prescriptions for reading and distance, how do you handle it?
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Two separate single-focus pairs of glasses, one for close-up work and one for distance
12 (28.6%)
Bifocals
1 (2.4%)
Trifocals or progressives
19 (45.2%)
A multi-focus pair (e.g. bifocals) *and* another pair
8 (19.0%)
Your poll does not capture the complexity of my situation! (Explain in comments.)
7 (16.7%)
(One handy trick I've been using when drawing is that you can slide the frames down your nose and change the prescription to a more up-close focus that way. This doesn't work for reading because it messes with my astigmatism, though.)