[tharkun__]

Oh so much.

Progressives here. The very bottom irritates me to no end during the day. If I drive in the morning or walk around I feel absolutely horrible. Like I'm drunk.

Sure, if I need to read something really really close on my phone in the evening, when the eyes have gone tired it's kinda OK. I do need to focus on the bottom of the glasses.

But I still (after months) usually just look straight ahead (sometimes that "mid section" is not right for what I'm looking at) or I need to intentionally look down, in order to actually look through the top of my glasses.

I think the progressives are worse than getting two pairs, but I can't tell for sure yet, since this is the first time for me and I believed the optometrist who recommended progressives (from own experience, being a little older than myself).

I will have to try the other way soon I guess.

Like right now, evening, I can't read this screen on the bottom of the glasses. The laptop is too far away. To look through the top, I have to look down. Like "double chin territory".

At normal cell phone distance, I can't use the bottom part. It's sorta blurry. I need to try and find the middle. Which is the smallest sections (I don't have huge glasses. Maybe an inch top to bottom, which all the progression has to fit into.

[01100011]

I'm trying progressive lenses again after throwing them in the trash a few years ago. The distortion is the worst part for me. Moving my head around makes the world warped as it moves between zones. Maybe I'd get used to it if I forced myself to wear them all the time but I spend most of my day WFH and wearing a weak version of my distance prescription that lets me focus on my monitor yet see reasonably well around the house without too much eyestrain.

[walterbell]

Progressives maximize legal compliance for automobile driving, with bonus impact on optical industry profits.

Multiple lenses for different focal lengths are now affordable and practical and offer higher optical quality and more comfort.

[m463]

Knew a friend who was a doctor. Said your brain is very malleable and adaptive.

If you wear them for a week, you will probably adapt and stop noticing the progressives, even walking around and going up/down stairs.

[tharkun__]

Yeah they told me the same.

But it doesn't work that way. I've had them for months now and I still notice them. While walking, while looking around. While driving.

Is it much better? Yes.

Stop noticing? Heck no.

I'm still giving it some time but I really don't like the sudden weird feeling I still get from time to time. And I can't even figure out why it's fine much of the time and then suddenly I get that weird feeling again.

And just having to double chin it to see the ground in front of you is so annoying.

[EvanAnderson]

I've had mine about 9 months and I definitely still notice the distortion. I'm glad to see my opinion validated here. My doctor talked the progressives up, and maybe a lot of people do like them, but I'm definitely ready to try the traditional split lens.

[y1n0]

I've had progressives for years. They suck, universally.

[norwayjose]

I've been wearing progressives for around 30 years. The only time I haven't had a good experience was once when my optometrist at the time retired and I foolishly tried a few of the chain optical stores. It's hard to say whether it was the doctor doing the exam or the person measuring me for glasses, but I ended up returning several pairs of glasses until I found another independent optometrist with enough experience and trained staff members to make a proper set of glasses. Since then, I've had to switch doctors several more times when they sell their practice but have gotten better about picking new ones.

I use computer glasses when staring at a screen for any length of time and I end up taking my glasses off to read e-books, one of the few benefits of being as nearsighted as I am. For everything else, the progressives work well for me. The first few pairs took close to a week for me to get used to wearing. Since then, I occasionally notice minor distortion with a new prescription but that usually goes away in a day or two.