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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #90 on: December 26, 2011, 04:30:30 AM »
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Quote from: odeon on December 25, 2011, 05:35:01 AM
My reading glasses are too expensive to be made in sufficient numbers. My strategy is to know where they are. :P
Are your eyes different in + strength?

There are those who are lucky that can buy $10 pairs at the chemist and have them work just fine. I will not be one of those lucky ones. ;)

They are different in + strength, yes, but my eyes are also astigmatic.
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #91 on: April 07, 2016, 03:26:17 PM »
  Turns out I also have a slight astigmatism.  And my right eye, once "stronger" in terms of visual acuity,
   has become the weaker eye.  Looks like it needs tough love to make it strong again!  :pirate:
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #92 on: April 07, 2016, 04:02:46 PM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on April 07, 2016, 03:26:17 PM
  Turns out I also have a slight astigmatism.  And my right eye, once "stronger" in terms of visual acuity,
   has become the weaker eye.  Looks like it needs tough love to make it strong again!  :pirate:

My right is also the weaker one, their is a difference of at least 1/8" between the two lenses if you look at the edge.

I juggle between two pairs of glasses now...and have to have both made, nothing in the drugstore is going to work here either.

Have to go for new ones soon.  :P
By the time I get the polycarbonate transition lenses so I don't look like I'm looking through the bottom of coke bottles and for my problems with bright light I basically need to rob a bank. 
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #93 on: April 09, 2016, 08:10:25 AM »
I have three pairs of glasses these days. There are the bifocals, there are the terminal glasses and there are the reading glasses. :GA:
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #94 on: April 09, 2016, 08:53:27 AM »
Quote from: odeon on April 09, 2016, 08:10:25 AM
I have three pairs of glasses these days. There are the bifocals, there are the terminal glasses and there are the reading glasses. :GA:

For the amount of computer work I do I should be getting those also, but haven't as of yet.  :P
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #95 on: April 09, 2016, 08:54:28 AM »
It's expensive to grow older. :P
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #96 on: April 09, 2016, 09:52:25 AM »
"terminal glasses" sounds ominous.
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #97 on: April 09, 2016, 10:13:02 AM »
Quote from: hykeaswell on April 09, 2016, 09:52:25 AM
"terminal glasses" sounds ominous.

They die after use. :zoinks:
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #98 on: April 12, 2016, 08:45:03 AM »
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It's expensive to grow older. :P

  Old teeth are especially costly.  :tard:
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #99 on: April 12, 2016, 09:14:48 AM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on April 12, 2016, 08:45:03 AM
Quote from: odeon on April 09, 2016, 08:54:28 AM
It's expensive to grow older. :P

  Old teeth are especially costly.  :tard:

Try three pairs of glasses. :(
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #100 on: April 12, 2016, 05:46:53 PM »
Quote from: odeon on April 12, 2016, 09:14:48 AM
Quote from: couldbecousin on April 12, 2016, 08:45:03 AM
Quote from: odeon on April 09, 2016, 08:54:28 AM
It's expensive to grow older. :P

  Old teeth are especially costly.  :tard:

Try three pairs of glasses. :(
Bloody hell, I have all this to look forward to.
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #101 on: April 13, 2016, 05:54:14 AM »
Quote from: renaeden on April 12, 2016, 05:46:53 PM
Quote from: odeon on April 12, 2016, 09:14:48 AM
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It's expensive to grow older. :P

  Old teeth are especially costly.  :tard:

Try three pairs of glasses. :(
Bloody hell, I have all this to look forward to.

  Take care of your teeth, maybe you won't have as many issues as I have.  :hug:
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #102 on: April 13, 2016, 10:23:02 PM »
I do, as much as I can anyway. I go to the dentist twice a year - once for a check up and once for a scale and clean. It is not up there on my list of pleasant things to do but I would rather do that than go when it's an emergency or something becauseI have neglected my teeth. The only thing I am lazy about is flossing.

Have you got a date set for when you get braces?
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #103 on: April 16, 2016, 08:16:02 AM »
Quote from: renaeden on April 13, 2016, 10:23:02 PM
I do, as much as I can anyway. I go to the dentist twice a year - once for a check up and once for a scale and clean. It is not up there on my list of pleasant things to do but I would rather do that than go when it's an emergency or something becauseI have neglected my teeth. The only thing I am lazy about is flossing.

Have you got a date set for when you get braces?

  Not yet, as usual I am procrastinating.  :-[  I need a regular cleaning, then a deep cleaning below the gumline,
  then the extraction of two stumps of broken teeth, and then I can get the braces.  Gotta get moving! :trollskull:


  Flossing is a pain, but it's worth the bother.  Decay between teeth rots them two at a time.  :(
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Re: What kind of bifocals do you recommend?
« Reply #104 on: April 16, 2016, 02:10:38 PM »
Quote from: odeon on April 12, 2016, 09:14:48 AM
Quote from: couldbecousin on April 12, 2016, 08:45:03 AM
Quote from: odeon on April 09, 2016, 08:54:28 AM
It's expensive to grow older. :P

  Old teeth are especially costly.  :tard:

Try three pairs of glasses. :(

I get by fine with two pairs.
I have one with my astigmatism corrected, very dark amber for driving shades and one pair of super light polycarbonate, heavily coated for glare reduction  "no-line"  bi-focals for constant use.

Just in case I break my normal day users, I do keep a pair of fairly high quality "drug store" generic, strongly dioptered "granpa glasses" in my car so I can see up close after a disaster happens to kill my expensive as fuck glasses. That has happened twice at work.

So, I guess I DO need three pair.

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