New glasses, and a signal boost

[susanreads]

Just over a week after having an eye test, I got my new (free from the NHS, single vision) glasses. I guess they're easier to make than varifocals. I got reading glasses and a distance-only pair, which look similar enough that I keep getting confused; also, the fit feels very odd. I guess I'll get used to them, though.

I don't think I'll use the distance-only pair much, because that part of the prescription hasn't changed a lot from my varifocals, which have the advantages of (i) going darker in sunlight, and (ii) still being able to read with them well enough to program the digital recorder. (With the reading glasses, I can read the Radio Times; with the others, I can see the menu on the TV screen.)

But next time I get a new prescription, I definitely want new varifocals if I can in any way afford it. I'm spending so much time taking one pair off and putting another pair on. At least I now have 2 pairs of reading glasses: one for the living room, one for the computer.

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Comments

[gwendraith]

I have glasses for distance but I can read okay without specs. I don't get on with varifocals at all and I've never gotten used to distance glasses when I'm on steps as everything is out of focus close to. I usually get prescription sunglasses as my 'free' pair.

[susanreads]

I had that problem with steps when I first got the varifocals. Going down stairs was odd, and I was at an event in a large room with a vividly patterned carpet and going down the stairs into there was really disconcerting. Looking where I was putting my feet in the way I was used to, I was looking through the wrong part for the distance the next step was at. I got used to it, though: the key is to look straight ahead and then turn your eyes down without bending your head, I think - then the nearest step is in range of the close-up part of the lens.