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Originally Posted by photon
I'm nearsighted so need glasses to see distances and can mostly read without glasses.
For normal progressives I tried them and I gave them a couple of years and I really couldn't adjust well to them. Side to side movement of my head gave the bottom peripheral view a wobbly/wavy motion that triggered my vertigo a bit that I could never adjust to. I also did not like where the transition point was vertically in the lens, I guess I naturally hold my head back a bit when driving maybe but took forever to not see everything blurry and tilt my head forward far enough to see clearly through that part of the lens.
And I got like $800 glasses for the progressives to make sure I was giving myself the maximum chance of getting good quality so I would like them.
So I switched back to single vision and I must say one thing I did like about the progressives is not having to take my glasses on and off to read my phone or look at something while shopping or whatever.
I think my ideal progressive would be 80% regular vision and 20 near without any intermediate since I have computer glasses. Is that a thing? Basically bifocals without the line??
Now my office/computer/whatever progressives, I love them. They're great. Work perfect.
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You can get a Short-Corridor style Progressive that will give you bigger distance and near zones while squeezing out some of the intermediate range. Essentially becomes bifocals without the line but you still have a progression at near vs a bifocal which is only one focal point.
Office progressives are must for all computer people. Especially now that everyone has multiple monitors. Often we will get people set up with an Office progressive + a short corridor walking around progressive and they are very happy with the results.