*facepalms*

[kyburg]

$500 for a pair of glasses, and I'm still using the original reading glasses when I'm at the computer.

Yeah, that was a great investment.

(However, replacing the distance set with the bifocals has been a success. I just can't see the entire screen when I try to use them sitting at the computer. You try looking at the screen with your head bent back at a 45 degree angle. For a whole day. No.)

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[elfwench.livejournal.com]

*smile* You eventually learn to look down with just your eyes.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

But I run out of sweet spot before I run out of monitor! *grumbles*

[yeoww.livejournal.com]

$500??

A friend of mine bought frames at someplace like Costco, took them in to her optomotrist, and had the lenses set into the cheaper frames. I'm due for a new pair of bifocals and am going to see if that'll work for me.

$500...*walks away muttering*

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I did the Lenscrafter route for years. Then I went in and found out just how OFF the prescription had been all that time and swore off it.

I mean, I'd totally lost textures - when I got that back, it was if I hadn't been wearing correction at all beforehand.

And they still charged me $150 - $200 for the privilege.

yow...

[tomlemos.livejournal.com]

$500 bucks? I sure hope that included the exam. My last set with exam set me back about $225.

My bifocal prescription is 'tweaked' to assist my eyes so I can stand to look at a computer all day. Kinda like the old 'reading glasses' but now they've got a 'computer' prescription in the bifocal part.

Re: yow...

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

It did; it was also after insurance paid their portion of it. OW.

If I was working with the old 14" monitors, I'd bet this would be fine - but I don't. Yay progress?

Re: yow...

[tomlemos.livejournal.com]

oh yeah.
damn.

progress sucks at times, that's for sure.

[ceolyn.livejournal.com]

Whee. I just got to replace the lenses in my frames and spend another chunk of change on actual sunglasses since the clip I have for my frames isn't dark enough by a long shot and I'm developing cataracts in both eyes from the sun. I'm now under doctors orders to wear sunglasses pretty much at all times when out doors in daylight. Fun, no really. $450 after insurance for one set of frames, one set of dark as sin polarized sunglass lenses, and one set of polycarbonate scratch resistant and glare resistant lenses. I feel your pain, I really do.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Developing cataracts? DUDE. The only bright spot in that one is that when they do a intra-ocular lens replacement, they also can correct for myopia at the same time. Yay - I guess? Nasty.

Sunglasses?. I'm still using the flip ups I got at a gas station off the 5 freeway on a trip up to the Bay Area years ago. *sighs* Good thing I don't have my picture taken wearing them. I *had* a good pair once - I lost them last year during Nisei Week. Yay human frailty.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

I actually do that angle a lot, but it's because I'm too dizzy to sit up. I don't recommend it.

Computer-specific glasses do seem to be a fiddly thing.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

The monitors I use are BIG ones - the smallest is 22" - the visual field is just too big for the portion of the bifocals to see all of it in one go, and stretching you neck back to see the top of the monitor with the bottom of the glasses is just laughable. And then you take the glasses off.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

OH, heavens no, not with bifocals. I don't know anyone who's gotten bifocals and a computer to play nicely. Most of the bifocal wearers I know who are also serious computer users have broken down and gotten a computer-specific set of glasses anyways - the "reading" glasses' focal point is set too close for monitor use in many cases.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I have *three* pairs of glasses now.

One pair of reading - computer & sewing
One pair of distance - yard work, watching TV, bike riding
One pair of bifocals - what am I doing ?

I use as appropriate.