Variously glasses problem

Cannot cope with varifocals or bifocals. Fortunately since having cataract operations on both eyes and having prescription lens that mean I only need glasses for driving and distances, I no longer have a problem. Perhaps the solution to your problem is cataracts!

I've been wearing variafocals for over 25 yrs. Over the yrs I've had some 'dodgy' pairs, but I know when they're not right and take them back.

Thanks for advice, just now wear specs all the time but slip them in my pocket if I'm walking outside. Haven't tripped since fingers crossed. It's tricky if with someone and chatting then you don't look down do you, you look at who you're talking to, then bang, down you go! Can't walk and talk at the same time!!

I have had varifocals for decades and would not be without them. You do get used to the fact that you have to look down a bit to negotiate kerbs - and stairs - beware stairs till you get the hang of them! If you a5e still having trouble you need to go back to your optician - sometimes they can alter the varifocal so you have more distance vision and less reading space.

My DH had to stop wearing varifocals. He kept tripping up kerbs and almost falling down stairs!

I think bifocals are much easier.

When DS's family acquired a table tennis table, I agreed to try my luck with DS and wondered why I kept missing the ball or the table. It only struck me later that I had never played ping pong with my varifocals on, and gradually adjusted so that occasionally I was able to get a ball past DS.

I love my varifocals but needed to learn to use them. I suggest you spend today practising and really thinking about which part of your lens you are using. Looking out of the window - head straight, eyes using top part of lens; looking at the carpet, head bent, eyes using top part of lens; looking at print on a table, head slightly up, eyes down using lower part of lens; looking a small print on a wall, head tilted back, looking down your nose and using lower part of lens; Stairs, paths etc, head bent down, eyes using top part of lens.

It will become second nature to you and you will soon be noticing others who use varifocals - those of us reading timetables on the station wall with heads bent right back and looking really snooty!

Don't give up yet - good luck!

No I can't cope with varifocals either, someone told me that they are difficult for migraine sufferers which I was. I have had bifocals for years and manage perfectly well with them. My husband has varifocals and has no problem with them.

I could not adjust to them so stick with bi focals ,

Oh I am so glad it's not just me!

I binned mine (into the drawer of spare glasses) and went back to separate reading/computer glasses and another pair for driving. My previous driving ones I kept to use for watching telly (they didn't have the anti-glare which I need for driving).

Sadly all my glasses are about the same colour and shape, so I had to put a spot of nail varnish on the inside of an arm so I know which pair to choose!

I have the same problem and so only wear my varifocals indoors. I usually wear contact lenses outside and use reading glasses.
My optician wants me to try varifocal contact lenses......

I had the escalator problem. Looking down through the reading bit really made me unsteady. After several years of varifocals, I decided to give them up.

I had a cataract operation yesterday so should just need reading glasses hopefully.

I wouldn't have any other sort - love my varifocals with photochromatic lenses.

When I first got them the optician told me to move my whole head looking down, not just my eyes, to solve the problem you have had mrs mopp. I am always very careful on stairs and escalators though.

I think they do take some getting used to and I'm never confident at the top of stairs even after all this time.

I'd go back to the optician.

Go back to the optician. I love my varifocals and have no problems with adjusting up and down. Maybe they have not been calibrated properly. Don't spend all that money on specs that are not fit for purpose!!

Had them a few weeks. They are great for everything else except I need to keep my eyes glued to the ground as I've had too many stumbles and tumbles.
I'm thinking of leaving them off in that situation; don't want any broken bones! My last fall I went flat on my face, it knocked all the wind out of me. I felt as though id been hit by a brick wall. Very scary. Just a low kerb I hadn't seen.

Maybe if I cut out the boozing that might help!! ? (joke)

Varifocals take a bit of getting g used to. How long have you had them mrsmopp.? My first pair felt really strange for a week or two until I got used to them. I didn't get reactions lenses with my last pair and I really miss them. I won't make that mistake again.

Varifocal not variously! Wish I could turno off stupid autocorrect!