Argh

[telophase]

After getting to spend most of a year without having to switch out glasses to see my monitors, my middle-distance vision has abruptly shifted so that my monitors are fuzzy. Arg. Near and far are fine. Which means back to the grind of getting computer glasses and swapping out.

I currently wear bifocals. I used to wear progressives. I hated them with a burning passion because (a) they never got the focal point correct so I had to turn my head ever so slightly to get the correct focal point, (b) the distortion at the edges of the lenses bothered the hell out of me and (c) I use giant-ass monitors that were never fully within the range of focus for middle distance, so I had to constantly move my head up and down to look at the screen.

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[delight]

I wear progressives and work at a computer so ... my sympathies. XD

[telophase]

You know my pain! I had to fight tooth and nail not to get progressives the last couple of times I went to the optometrist, because they just couldn't understand why I'd want to switch out my glasses multiple times a day. I work at a computer all day! I'm switching out every 4 hours or so! I'd rather do that than have the headaches that constantly moving my head is giving me!

[delight]

Previously, they were better since I was a working clinician seeing a gazillion patients a day and had to keep switching between the patient's face, the computer, the lab, etc so I did a lot of head moving and angle-shifting that made it so that they were fantastic, but in my current position, I'm seriously considering asking for computer glasses.

Because I've been holding my head sideways for three days now as my current project is staring at Excel for 7 hours a day.

I'll take your experience as a recommendation to ask for them, I think!

[ellen_fremedon]

I've been wearing computer glasses, and they're much better than my regular distance glasses were, but when I switch out at the end of the day and leave the building, it can take a long time--20 minutes or so--to learn to see things in the distance again. There's some sort of trick to refocusing that's almost instant once I find it, but I have to find it again every. single. night.