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My wife had bifocals for a while, the normal type of top part for distance and lower portion for reading. Unfortunately, she started to have a problem with mid-distance such as viewing a computer screen. She went to the eye doctor and after having an exam, she decided to try the progressive lenses. She was able to adapt fairly quickly to the lenses, but it took her a few days. She never got dizzy or nauseous, but for a while her eyes got tired and she had some eye strain headaches. After about two weeks, she could wear them constantly with no problems.
The experience, however, is not going to be the same for everybody because it’s going to depend on your peripheral vision and how much you normally shift your eyes when looking to your left and right. If you’re gifted with exceptional peripheral vision and you’ve always used your natural wide scope of vision to see the world, you’re going to have more difficulty adjusting to progressives. The other potential problem relates to how much you shift your eyes to view things around you. If you keep your head fairly still, but shift your eyes to the left and right, you’re going to have problems adjusting because you will be looking through areas of the lenses that will give you blurry vision. If instead you move your head toward the point of interest and allow your eyes to find the right spot of the lenses where focus is optimal, you’re going to have an easier time.
From the standpoint of the glasses, they have to fit your face correctly or you will never adjust. If the lenses are set too narrow or too wide for your eyes, one or both eyes will always look through the wrong part of the lens. Thus, if you’re still having no luck after a few days, you might want to go back to the eye doctor or try a different doctor to determine if the glasses need an adjustment to fit you properly.
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