• 108 Posts
  • 2.46K Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

help-circle

  • With those types of lenses that you were talking about, there’s only one focal point. So therefore, your glasses , the frames , could be a couple of degrees off before even notice anything. With progressive you have many focal points many fields going up and down the lenses. So if they are off even by a little bit.One eye will be looking through one field and one eye looking through another field.

    Which means one eye will be focusing at one distance and one eye will be focusing at another distance. That’s some ugly eye strain.

    For some people they can handle that. They just concentrate on the one eye or the other eye. But there’s a lot of people who they can’t do that. And that’s where the real problem is at.

    But I do understand your lack of knowledge on the subject as a lot of people don’t understand where the real problem is that.






  • They are super hard to get properly aligned. The absolute vast majority of people that work in eye glass shops have ZERO clue on how to set them up. They will claim until they die that they know how to do it. They don’t have a clue. And they don’t understand that. That’s the real problem. They think they know and they don’t.

    And the more sensitive your eyes are to minute changes(tiny changes). The problem gets many times worse.

    The best I can say is go to one person have them keep working on it. Do not let anybody else touch them. Keep working the same person. If you realize this person can’t get them right and it could take several visits by the way. Then blacklist that person and go to the next person in the same shop. Repeat this until you’ve gone through everybody in the same shop. Then go to the next shop and start over. Keep doing this until youcan find somebody who has a clue. It’s going to take a while. Trust me. I have exactly one person in Town that he can do it. By the way, my city is about 60,000 people in just this town. 60,000 population that is. And there are quite a few eyeglass places in town.

    To those who are reading this, if you work in eyeglass shops, and you’re sitting there thinking, but everybody in my shop is really good. Then you have no what’s going on. And you’re part of the problem. Because if you’re thinking, everybody in your shop can do it that means nobody in your shop can do it.

    Think of it this way. Imagine everybody on a baseball team says I am really great and everybody my team is really great. Then your entire team sucks. Because in every team, there are people who are really, really good and people are mediocre and people are bad. So if you honestly believe that, everybody in your team is really really good then you’re clueless.

    So I guess the best advice I can give to the original poster is keep trying with different people and try to find somebody’s good. Or go to bifocals.