<p>So I’m going to try to correct my lifelong vision problems one last time now that I also need readers constantly. What has your experience been with progressive lens for reading-computer-driving? Have any of you seen an improvement with nighttime glare with lens treatment? And finally - what style does an over 50 woman choose to look fashionable but not ridiculous? Help!</p>
<p>I’ve had great success with progressives, except that I still find it easier to use reading glasses part of the time, especially when I’m trying to read while lying down.</p>
<p>As for style, I don’t know (I’m an over 50 man), but I really like my rimless “frames.” They are very light, and I don’t notice the edges as I do with other frames.</p>
<p>On the first two questions - I have had progressive lenses for years and love them. It took a few days to get used to where to look, but with my bifocals I always was too close or too far from the computer screen. With progressives I’m just right! I look through the top for distance (like driving) and through the bottom for reading. It becomes automatic; no need to think about it.</p>
<p>I also have antiglare coating and it’s been wonderful. I have a lot of trouble with headlights when driving at night and the coating really made a difference.</p>
<p>On style I can’t really help because I’ve basically used the same style for years. I like a thin metal rim close to the hair color I have when I remember to color it, with slightly squared corners and the earpiece in the middle. I like thin frames because I find them less distracting. I can’t get too small of a frame because I already need to get ultralight lenses and for progressives they need to make them a certain minimum size to get all the distances in.</p>
<p>I’ve had progressives for years and love them. I have antiglare coating and have no idea if it works as I was never bothered by glare in the first place. </p>
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<p>At 47 I am wearing glasses for the first time. I went with the progressives and I really like them. The only thing that is hard is walking down stairs. But I just hold on to the rail. My frames are titanium. My husband says I look like Sarah Palin in them which I don’t necessarily take as a compliment.</p>
<p>Oh and for me progressives are great in the car - can see the dash and the road, but I usually take them off for computer. The previous pair had a middle area that was perfect for the computer. It may have helped that the lens was a little bigger on them and also that pair had less of a correction for reading. I’m not at all bothered by stairs. The only time I’ve noticed a problem is doing crunches, but all the exercise gurus say you shouldn’t be doing crunches any more anyway! (I just did them with my eyes closed.) Previous frames were titanium and l loved them, but decided maybe I looked a little too John Lennonish in them. But I wear them when I’m in the mood. I like having different glasses as fashion accessories.</p>
<p>I really like my progressives and haven’t had any problems with them. I can’t help you with style choices though - get what you think looks good on you and don’t worry so much about the latest fashion. Especially avoid the more extremes of any one particular style - unless you like shelling out for new glasses regularly. Nothing looks more ridiiculous than someone still wearing frames that were the avant gard of fashion and oh-so-cool a couple a years ago. Choose something nearer the middle that won’t look so silly so soon.</p>
<p>another progressive wearer. I also have the anti glare coating. Like Mathmom I find them great in the car. Also at the store when I am trying to read price tags. I used to wear contacts but found I could not read the tags or the cell phone without reading glasses. I switched totally over to glasses. I had no problem after the first few days. The first few days I was more careful on the stairs but that just lasted a couple of days. I would find an optician that has a large selection and a helpful staff person. I start off my just trying on glasses that I find attractive. Pretty quickly you can eliminate some. I narrow it down to the point I have 3 or 4 I am considering. I take advice from the person helping me. I am lucky that my good friend runs an optometrist office. Aside from a discount I get honest advice. What I have noticed is that the last 3 frames I picked out have all been the same designer. They tend to look good on me and fit well.
My big purchase this past summer was progressive sunglasses. What a huge difference it makes. I wish I had done it sooner. Definitely worth the money.</p>
<p>I was wearing progressives before I was 30 (around 25 years ago 
). I had a constant headache for the first month, but then I adjusted to them and haven’t had any problems since then. Definitely get the anti-glare coating.</p>
<p>DH, however, has never been able to adjust to them. They’re making him crazy–things are distorted and he gets headaches. He went back to the optometrist to see if the glasses were for the right prescription, and they were. She told him to give it a little more time. It’s been eight months and he can’t take it anymore. We’ve moved, so he can’t go back to that optometrist. The insurance won’t pay for anything because it’s been less than a year, so we’re going to Costco for an exam and relatively cheap glasses.</p>
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<p>I also love my progressives, but get them done somewhere good. Has anyone had an issue with the anti-glare coating wearing off? Can it be redone?</p>
<p>I just made the leap from readers to progressives in September and love them now. The first week I had them, I tripped coming out of the neighbor’s house and fell FLAT. My glasses, however, did not fall off nor did I smash my face into the sidewalk. So I agree with holding the railing to go down stairs.</p>
<p>I also suggest having them made by someone who is good: ask around for recommendations. </p>
<p>My hubby wears the frames that can be bent all directions and look like wires. They come in many collors. He really likes them and is on his third pair in about 12 years. I like mine, but would not get them again because I had a little problem with one of the lenses falling out–a problem that has been corrected.</p>
<p>I too wear progressives- tri-focals. I have the anti-glare coating. The only recommendations I would make is that for a tri-focal, so that you are not constantly having to change your head position so much, get as vertically large frame as possible without looking too old fashioned. This last time around I went with the sleek rectangular (narrow vertically) and really hate it. The look is great, but the range of each focal is so small, that I am constantly bobbing my head. </p>
<p>Lucky for me, in one way, I took a fall a while back and scratched the front on the right lens. I went in today- the lenses are still under warranty for replacement only. I chose a new clearance frame for 60 which is wider vertically and will get the new pair in about a week. </p>
<p>As for the anti glare coming off- I have had that problem in the past- especially if you use hairspray- eventually the alcohol in the hairspray causes it to loosen, I think. No remedy except replacement, according to my doctor.</p>
<p>Another happy progressives wearer here–never had a moment of difficulty in adjusting, and do fine with the computer. My frames are Kate Spade, a light tortoise shell with a hint of lavender around the edge (hard to describe, but the subtle touch of color is flattering to the complexion). But there’s no substitute to just sitting down at an optical shop and experimenting with a variety of frames–the size and shape of your face, your hairstyle, brow shape, and coloring all come into play. (I recommend you pick up a few of those microfiber cleaning cloths to keep stashed in car, purse, and at home–they really do the trick.)</p>
<p>Hmm, I have been wearing progressives for years and am seriously thinking about abandoning them shortly in favor of “regular” glasses. I find that I take my glasses off to read, so what’s the point of wearing progressives?</p>
<p>Progressives for the myopic since first grade here! When I first got them (has it been a decade already?) I thought I wasn’t adjusting and tried standard bifocals. Bifocals drove me crazy- couldn’t see the dashboard while driving like I could with progressive lenses. Worse than the progressives so I went back to them (let’s hear it for trial periods of a month at no additional cost) and love them. Took adjusting to stairs as well. An old classmate was one of the few who couldn’t adjust to progressives- he has the standard bifocals. </p>
<p>With my myopia I have less than fashionable glasses- I chose a longer distance from top to bottom than most would to get enough room for the transitions. I also needed to change lenses as my presbyopia worsened (those muscles that accomodate near to far vision wore out more as years went by- now stable- aside, is my medical training showing?). Aging eyes need to make the adjustment to choosing which part of the lens to look through for good vision. This means no more laying in bed and looking through the bottom of the lens to watch tv… Subtle head movements accomodate automatically after awhile- going from short to medium to long range viewing. Taking off my glasses for reading at night makes my middle age acquired astigmatism come into play- the words are bigger (word size a factor of myopia correction with glasses) but distorted.</p>
<p>Definitely get the good lenses- don’t skimp on quality or features. I have nonglare (antireflective) lenses. Also lightweight polycarbonate with nonscratch surfaces- noticeable difference with my requirements for “thick” lenses when I switched. The flexible frames, titanium usually, are worth the extra price. Do not get the ones that function as sunglasses (“transitions”)- the transition time from outside to inside is long from what I hear. Much easier just to use flip up sunglasses over your glasses for driving, or sunglasses that fit over them (the second set of earpieces isn’t too much bother- and they keep out the sun from the top and sides).</p>
<p>Remember that as far as style is concerned- you ARE middle aged, not young like your kids. They may be content with using narrow lenses for single vision- give yourself more viewing room at the different distances.</p>
<p>We are so lucky progressives are available. I think I missed the window for possible vision correction surgery- will have to wait for cataracts so I can get lens implants… I never went back to contacts after pregnancy (son in college now…)- so many years ago I had gas permeable hard lenses and never considered the soft ones for lack of visual clarity differences. Then the astigmatism, plus bifocal needs. Now I am fine with glasses.</p>
<p>Hope all of my and others’ details help you feel comfortable with choosing progressive lenses. You do adapt and they are much better than standard bifocals. Your eyes will never be 20 again, they age along with the rest of you.</p>
<p>i’ll have to be the oddball…tried for weeks with progressives…just couldnt do it. felt sick alot of the time just couldnt get focus right…so basically i hated them…went back to line</p>
<p>I love my progressives and anti-glare. I am willing to invest money in glasses. My current “good” pair (the ones I wear to work) are rimless on the bottom like SP’s, but they look a lot better on her. They really don’t flatter me much. My second best pair (my favorites) are plastic frames in a medium color and look much better on me.</p>
<p>The first inexpensive frame I got with progressives was not so great. Because of the shape, I had a hard time focusing. Also I think the frames were a little big for my face making the “progressive” parts not hit me just right.</p>
<p>Lucky for me, they broke after about six months. Since I got them at LensCrafters, they had a one year warranty. LensCrafters no longer had those frames in my size so offered to let me choose any other frame in the store to replace them. I chose a Ralph Lauren style with plastic frames. They’re a deep burgandy…almost black…with sort of lavender/pinkish trim (barely visible) around the inner parts of the glasses. I’m forty-eight and have very short hair (some frame styles look better or worse on people depending on their hairstyle, I think)
I love my progressives and my RL frames. They are so comfortable and I have no distorted vision. </p>
<p>The salesperson told me that some people could never adjust but once I had the right glasses/frames, I had no adjustment problems whatsoever.
Her best advice to me for getting used to them was “Point your nose at what you want see”. It worked.</p>
<p>I’ve had progressives for a while. As a teacher I found that with my reading glasses I was constantly taking them off and on to be able to read and to see the students! I’ve usually had the optician help me with style and tried on many pairs. For the past few years I’ve been wearing multi focal contacts during the day and I love them. They are not as good for reading as my glasses but I get through my day fine with them. At night I take them off to read in bed.</p>
<p>I love my progressives, too, but I’m so blind without them that I have a hard time choosing frames. When I try on a frame, I can’t see myself well enough to tell whether it looks good or not!</p>