Went to the optometrist yesterday for my 2-year-and-change check-up. My intermediate vision has not been what I’d like it to be, and my glasses have been getting kind of scuffed up, so it was time.
I’ve actually been wearing the glasses from my 1998 check-up; the ones I got with my 2002 check-up never felt right, even after several months of wearing, so I changed back to these when we went to the UK and never switched back.
The difference, evidently, is in the prism that is calculated in it. The eye exam I took indicated I have both horizontal and vertical prism, but the glasses that “feel right” have just horizontal prism in them, so that’s what they’ve prescribed for me.
They’ve also prescribed …
… I can’t say it …
… bifocals. Or gradated lenses. Or, if I want, two separate pairs of glasses.
The latter solution is Right Out. There’s a reason I don’t have a separate pair of prescription sun glasses, but instead have had light-adjusting lenses for many, many years. It’s because I am both lazy and prone to forgetting things, and all having two sets of glasses with me will do is lead to my not having the pair I need with me, wherever I am.
Feh.
So, now to start looking for new frames. Found a couple of possibles at the eyeglass shop at the clinic, though I may look at the better selection I found at another clinic last time. (Hmmmm … I do have a free afternoon …) Problem is, as noted in the past, my taste in eyeglasses is a step or two away from the mainstream. That hasn’t, evidently, changed in the last couple of years. So we’ll see.
Bifocals. I can’t stand it …
Sorry, can’t sympathize. My next prescription will be trifocals–I’ve always been near-sighted. Now I need one for farsighted. And, I’ve noticed that the near I need far-sighted is (as my doctor warned me) that my eyes have adjusted to “computer length” (distance to monitor). So I’ll need one for that distance as well.
Argh.
I’ve been pretty fortunate over the years at, despite being nearsighted, having decent short-range vision. That range, though, has been creeping shorter and shorter, and my ability to wander around without glasses has been decreasing with it. Bleah.