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clint van damme · Dec 3, 2020

Just got my first pair.
Evil bastards. I'm going to look like Marty Feldman by the end of the week

Any tips for taming these fuzzy bastards?

ovduk78 · Dec 3, 2020

clint van damme said:
Just got my first pair.
Evil bastards. I'm going to look like Marty Feldman by the end of the week

Any tips for taming these fuzzy bastards?

Just stick with them and in a couple of days everything will be fine. Well except for trying to watch tv whilst lying down and looking through wrong part of lens!

skyblueinBaku · Dec 3, 2020

I tried them for a week, but gave up. Every time I turned my head everything in view seemed to oscillate; that would have been lethal when driving so I reverted to normal lenses.

Deleted member 5849 · Dec 3, 2020

My Dad couldn't get on with them for about a month, hated them. But he stuck with them and now wouldn't be without them.

Nature will compensate, eventually!

skybluetony176 · Dec 3, 2020

Get ready for people shoving a phone in your face going look at this, then looking at you like you’re the crazy one when you move their hand so you can see it through the right part of your glasses.

Top tip. It will be your other half.

RedSalmon · Dec 3, 2020

Be careful on the stairs, takes a while to get used them with vari focals. Apart from that I think they are great, just takes a while to get used to them, although I do use normal glasses for driving.

oscillatewildly · Dec 3, 2020

skyblueindorset said:
I tried them for a week, but gave up. Every time I turned my head everything in view seemed to oscillate; that would have been lethal when driving so I reverted to normal lenses.

Don't try to pin the blame on me.

bezzer · Dec 4, 2020

I've had vari-focals for the past 10 years and once you (your brain) gets used to them, you'll be fine. I did find driving a bit weird at first as well as coming down stairs! But I know people who binned them after a few days as they couldn't get on with them. All I'd say is stick with it.

I now also have vari-focal contact lenses; longsighted lens in my right eye and shortsighted lens in my left. These took a lot longer to get used to, but now I wouldn't do without them.

clint van damme · Dec 4, 2020

bezzer said:
I've had vari-focals for the past 10 years and once you (your brain) gets used to them, you'll be fine. I did find driving a bit weird at first as well as coming down stairs! But I know people who binned them after a few days as they couldn't get on with them. All I'd say is stick with it.

I now also have vari-focal contact lenses; longsighted lens in my right eye and shortsighted lens in my left. These took a lot longer to get used to, but now I wouldn't do without them.

I'm actually getting on alright with them after my initial struggle.
Even wore them to drive home. Struggling more with the short sighted bit of the lens but one advantage I did find it my posture when I'm sitting is terrible but it forced me to sit properly when I was on my computer at work because when I'm slouched it's difficult to use the reading bit of the lens.

olderskyblue · Dec 4, 2020

Last pair I had felt very weird, sight seemed far worse. I was told to give it a couple of days and I’d get used to them.

I gave them 30 minutes and went back. Seems they’d put the lenses in the wrong way. Left was right etc.

Once corrected, they were fine.

lifeskyblue · Dec 4, 2020

Never really had a problem with varifocals and certainly wouldn’t be without them now. Only issue was first day I wore them I went for a drink and when the barmaid put the pint on the bar I made a grab for it....the glasses made it look like the bar was on a 60 degree slope

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Houchens Head · Dec 4, 2020

I've worn them for years. Love 'em!

wingy · Dec 5, 2020

How are they now Clint?
Didn't have any issues when I moved to them around 15 yrs ago ,apart from the pain to my wallet .

clint van damme · Dec 5, 2020

wingy said:
How are they now Clint?
Didn't have any issues when I moved to them around 15 yrs ago ,apart from the pain to my wallet .

Getting on well with them mate thanks.
Yeah, they weren't cheap!

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