I had a rather stupid large pair when I was in middle school. Never bothered wearing them to school though, for almost obvious reasons.
But now they’ve managed to more or less streamline them. How useful are they though? Is it worth picking up as a last ditch emergency set of glasses?
I’m wondering about this, too, as I’ve gone from no glasses to distance lenses to, now, three different pairs for different situations and none of them are ever exactly what I need. They’re all over the house and never where I need them and just make me angry, worst part of aging (so far). I’m squinting at this right now
You might want to consider progressives. It took me two tries, and finally giving them a proper chance for four weeks to get used to them, but now it’s like I don’t have presbyopia. They’re not cheap and they’re not easy to get used to, but at least for me, they were well worth the effort.
Yes, I have one pair and those are still my go to when I leave the house, but problem for me is the middle distance (computer screen), which was giving me neck pains from unconsciously tilting my head to put it in the right spot. And reading in bed, where having the readers at the bottom portion just doesn’t work. So, ended up juggling glasses anyway.
I had my progressive lenses specced out so the near and medium zones take up 3/4th of the area, and distance is only a top fringe. Think of them as a pair of reading glasses with an optional distance area at the top 🙂 I did this because I realized - like you apparently - that I spend much more time at the computer and reading than looking at far stuff.
Those glasses are almost screwed onto my face 24/7. They work for me 95% of the time. But for the sake of extra comfort, I also have 2 pairs of dedicated glasses for computer/reading (single vision, i.e. cheap): one is always at work and the other at home. I put on the former if I know I’ll be staring at a screen for more than 4 hours at a time, to reduce neck strain, and I almost never use the latter. But it’s there if I need it. And I have a pair of distance-only glasses (again, single vision) that I never use because the progressives do the job just fine. But on occasion, to admire landscapes and/or do photography, I’ll use them.
Progressives are tricky to get right. There’s the corrections of course but also how you use them. A good optician should interview you at length to ensure the near and distance areas are distributed to help you rather than get in your way. It sounds like the one you had your progressives made at didn’t do that.
Those are a thing? I want that!
I’ve never tried them. In fact, I didn’t even know there were adjustable glasses that work with sliding lenses: the only type I knew of is flexlible liquid-filled lenses. I’ve been looking for an explanation of how the sliding lenses principle works for the past 20 minutes but I can’t find anything. Annoying!
I don’t think they will do you much good if you have a lot of cylinder in your correction. But if you have none, they should work. Also, they look like the field of vision is very narrow. And of course, the elephant in the room: the dork factor is off the scale 🙂
Maybe as emergency glasses
EDIT: here’s a less dorky alternative - appears to work using the same sliding lens system:
