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I recently broke down and got new bifocals. I had quit wearing them several years ago when I kept walking off things and missing steps. I figured I hurt myself eventually. Well, night vision got bad enough I thought I'd better re-up on them. However, they are no good for my close work and reading. Dang, I spent $250 on them! I have had them adjusted twice but still they don't work well. SO, here I am, back to my readers. I just collected all my scattered pairs. I have 7 pairs of readers in the house....how many do those of you who use them have. I bet it isn't just me who has a bunch.
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I don't understand that. Bifocals are supposed to help you with your close work and reading.
At least that's what they told me when I got them.
I find myself taking my glasses off to read because they don't help. Even after adjustment, they're pretty much just in my way.
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I have no idea how many readers I have. Probably around 20, if I had to guess,
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yes i need new glasses i can;t see anything with the glasses i have now. so i need get to the Dr. also there sale two pair for 79.00 that good deal plus the exam but my insurance only let me go to certain places. But, next month it on my list to take care of this.
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Pinhole glasses help with reading once you get used to them. They do no harm to your eyes at all.
Read one or more of Jacob Liberman's books. He is a great resource and has experience we can all learn from. He has an abundance of knowledge about the eyes.
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I have to reading glasses, always using it and and one for computer used only.
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I think I need reading glasses. I had lasik several years ago but still can't see.
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I read them without my glasses now. But sometime I still need them to read. It getting tire when you wear all the time. At least it happen to me.
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I could never get used to bifocals. They were impossible with computers. I am much happier with reading glasses. I have spent $200+ for prescription glasses, and they never worked right. I have at least 10-12 reading glasses right now. I misplace them a lot, but I usually end up finding them again. And they are much cheaper. I have ordered them online for $10-15 for a pack of 9-10.
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i dont wear bifocals but i wear glasses and also contacts but i prefer the contacts but they can get exspensive glasses i mean contacts are a lot less money
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I recently broke down and got new bifocals. I had quit wearing them several years ago when I kept walking off things and missing steps. I figured I hurt myself eventually. Well, night vision got bad enough I thought I'd better re-up on them. However, they are no good for my close work and reading. Dang, I spent $250 on them! I have had them adjusted twice but still they don't work well. SO, here I am, back to my readers. I just collected all my scattered pairs. I have 7 pairs of readers in the house....how many do those of you who use them have. I bet it isn't just me who has a bunch.
I actually had a pair or two but I don't need them anymore. First off, I HATE glasses, ANY kind of glasses, LOL. I wear contact lenses. When it got bad enough, I went to the eye doctor and he put me in "monovision." That being one bi-focal contact lense and one regular contact lense. Now, I'm really happy! I can see distance and I can read small lettering on bottles, jar, etc. Of course, it's not "perfect," but at least I can see better than I did before and I don't have to carry around a stupid pair of reading glasses, either.
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I'm not there yet, but I know it's coming within the next few years for me. I'm pretty sure I'll start with "cheap" readers vs springing for bifocals or progressive lenses. My vision for the computer and distance are fine with my contacts, just starting to get hard reading the tiny print on vitamin labels, particularly in dim light. When I have good lighting, not nearly as bad.
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I have at least four or five pairs of readers in different areas of the house just in case I don't have my prescription glasses handy. :)
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I have worn bifocals for years.
The trick to walking down stairs when you have bifocals is don't look at your feet. Your feet know where they are going without you looking at them.
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I wear bifocals and after a few days where good. Now I have contacts and they are for both with no issues, I love it
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I have bifocals and have had since I was 14. I am near sighted in one eye and farsighted in the other. The first time I put them after receiving them in the mail I walked out of the post office and missed the step. Boy did I learn quickly. Oh yeah I am almost 72 now. I did try contacts, but with my allegories they did not work. I keep losing them.
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I recently broke down and got new bifocals. I had quit wearing them several years ago when I kept walking off things and missing steps. I figured I hurt myself eventually. Well, night vision got bad enough I thought I'd better re-up on them. However, they are no good for my close work and reading. Dang, I spent $250 on them! I have had them adjusted twice but still they don't work well. SO, here I am, back to my readers. I just collected all my scattered pairs. I have 7 pairs of readers in the house....how many do those of you who use them have. I bet it isn't just me who has a bunch.
I do not think I could have that many pairs of glasses hanging around. I just went to the eye doc for my every 2 year or so exam. He gives me my prescription and I go online to either goggles or eyebuy direct and get a great looking pair for about 50 bucks. Plus a light tint and scratch protection.
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I read them without my glasses now. But sometime I still need them to read. It getting tire when you wear all the time. At least it happen to me.
As you saying it didn't work?
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I recently broke down and got new bifocals. I had quit wearing them several years ago when I kept walking off things and missing steps. I figured I hurt myself eventually. Well, night vision got bad enough I thought I'd better re-up on them. However, they are no good for my close work and reading. Dang, I spent $250 on them! I have had them adjusted twice but still they don't work well. SO, here I am, back to my readers. I just collected all my scattered pairs. I have 7 pairs of readers in the house....how many do those of you who use them have. I bet it isn't just me who has a bunch.
I only have one. But I am only slightly farsighted.
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ive got one pair!!!!!!! :dog:
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Oh wow, Why didn't you go back and tell them where you bought the glasses that they are not working?
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I recently broke down and got new bifocals. I had quit wearing them several years ago when I kept walking off things and missing steps. I figured I hurt myself eventually. Well, night vision got bad enough I thought I'd better re-up on them. However, they are no good for my close work and reading. Dang, I spent $250 on them! I have had them adjusted twice but still they don't work well. SO, here I am, back to my readers. I just collected all my scattered pairs. I have 7 pairs of readers in the house....how many do those of you who use them have. I bet it isn't just me who has a bunch.
walgreens has cheap reading glasses
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I have about 3 pairs. I like them, they add a sophisticated style. I don't know if that applies to bifocals though lol just kidding just kidding :heart:
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I think I need reading glasses. I had lasik several years ago but still can't see.
With Lasik surgery, you definitely will need readers for close up reading. I am surprised they never mentioned that to you.
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I use them all the time.
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My eyes are doing great; however, I like to wear sunglasses when I go outside. It seems like I have a tendency to lose a pair of sunglasses...
then I find a pair of sunglasses. The universe always provides for me and I am greatly blessed to have everything I need.
:heart:
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I have progessive lenses in my glasses and bifocal contact lenses .. but still need reading glasses if I have my contacts in for really small stuff.
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I never liked bifocals. I use a separate pair for my regular glasses and my reading glasses. I do need to get me a paid of night vision glasses.
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when I had bifocals and expensive glasses they were stolen at the library
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I recently broke down and got new bifocals. I had quit wearing them several years ago when I kept walking off things and missing steps. I figured I hurt myself eventually. Well, night vision got bad enough I thought I'd better re-up on them. However, they are no good for my close work and reading. Dang, I spent $250 on them! I have had them adjusted twice but still they don't work well. SO, here I am, back to my readers. I just collected all my scattered pairs. I have 7 pairs of readers in the house....how many do those of you who use them have. I bet it isn't just me who has a bunch.
lol That is what I would do. I wear contacts and I have a friend who wears one for far sighted and one for near sighted but I would kill myself trying to do that. I have to wear reading glasses to see anything up close. I guess it is my age. I hate it.
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:) I would get the glasses checked again. Sometimes, when you get older, your eyes can change rather quickly. My wife and I have a pair of light weight lenses that set inside our glass frame for working on the computer as the monitor is right in the bifocal changeover spot. they weren't real expensive. $25 or $30 if I remember correctly. :)
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I have blended lenses that combine near, mid and far distance correction. However, in order to obtain adequate correction for close work, the optomostrist said my lenses would be too heavy. So I needed to get a separate pair of glasses for close work. I can't buy the drugstore ones any more because there is too great a difference between right and left eyes. but I USED TO love to have a pair handy wherever I was in the house.
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I have about five pairs. I just need them for reading the newspaper and the computer.
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i have reading glasses everywhere about 26 but i like to keep extras around also
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i got a pair of bifocals a couple of years ago, and STILL am not used to them. i understand about the falling...first time i had them on i looked down and the floor came zooming up to me lol