Are my Bifocals Too Strong?
It’s possible, if you wear bifocals, that your eye care professional made your prescription for bifocals too strong. But before you jump to that conclusion, make sure that the issue isn’t something else.
If you wear glasses, one issue that can affect your bifocals is the fit. It’s not enough to have lenses that are ground to the right prescription, they need to be at the correct angle when reading. If they slip down your nose, for example, then you’re not getting the right magnification, Likewise, if they’re crooked with one lens riding higher than the other, your vision isn’t getting the help it needs. The lenses should tilt so that the line of your gaze goes in a perpendicular line through the lens to what you’re reading. With ill-fitting glasses, the reading portion of the lens could be too low or at the wrong angle for optimum comfort and correction. This could make your bifocals too strong.
If you wear glasses all the time, you’ll most likely end up with presbyopia, more commonly know as farsightedness. It commonly affects people as they age, with presbyobics first having trouble reading fine print on packages, and then squinting to read normal print in books. Many people solve the problem by using two pairs of glasses, switching them as needed. Others choose bifocal or progressive lenses for convenience but, as mentioned above, they need to be fitted correctly. If the lower, reading portion of the lens is placed too low on the wearer’s face then they have to bend their neck in an awkward position to read.
Better would be to get a pair of bifocal contact lenses, which offer a much wider field of vision and always fit correctly. Bifocal contact lenses, like the lenses in eyeglasses, have two prescriptions on the same lens. The kind most people are familiar with are called translating lenses, because your eye alternates between the two different prescriptions, up for distance and down for reading. But there are also simultaneous vision lenses, that allow the eye to look through both prescriptions at the same time. Your brain automatically picks the correct strength depending on what you’re focusing on.
If you feel you have a bifocals too strong problem, speak to your eye doctor about contact lenses. They’re a comfortable, convenient solution for users of progressive lenses.
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