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HCP, I do not remember where I read it, probable at the eye doctors who sold glasses. Progressive lenses have to be ground to the center of your eye. The prescription of progressive lenses are shaped like an hour glass and if the center of the hour glass is not right in the middle of your eye when looking forward they can cause nausea. The larger the lens the worse the effect. If your first try with progressive lenses did not work, it may have been the lenses. When I got my first pair of progressive the eye store guaranteed them and would have switched them to bi focal if I could not get use to them at no cost. I mean other then the 400 dollars they charged me for the first pair. Ouch!
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Funny thing about bi-focals...when I wore them....until I got used to them, I damned near killed myself going up or down stairs.......
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| Yes - I remember how I had to look directly at everything I wanted to see - no peripheral vision whatsoever with those progressives. That along with everything moving around everytime I moved my head was too much. The eye doctor did have the guarantee they would give me the regular bifocals at no cost if I could not adjust to the progressive lenses.
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| Yep, I hear that, HCP and JJ. Now I know why old folks complain of sore neck and shoulders. Its that bobble head effect of trying to find the part of the lens that actually focuses on what you need to see. Coming home with the S.O.and wearing my first set of bifocals, I purposely walked into the door jamb leaving the store. Then I bumped into the rear quarter panel of the cage with my hip, "fell' down off the curb, and slid my hand along the tail of the cage like a blind man. After I got behind the wheel, she asked, "Are you ok to drive?" with a real concerned expression and manner about her. With as much non-chalance as I could muster, I replied, "Sure. Why do you ask?" When the traffic thinned, I let the cage drift left as I leaned foreward to peer out the windshield. Just the tinyest jerk back to the right and I let it drift that way for a while before a little jerky recovery. I had her going for quite a while. The burnt toast for dinner was worth the fun.
nobody rides half as well as they know how.
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I ordered a pair of glasses, Progressive lenses, tinted, for work. They contacted me and questioned me about my prescription, they were correct I had a dyslexic moment. So they actual paid attention to my order. They showed up in the mail Wednesday and I wore them all day yesterday. They were very good. My insurance only allows one pair of glasses per year and if you need or want a second or third pair. I recommend them highly. I give this web site an A++
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Gfurlo, I'm glad you had a good experience. I'm always nervous about recommending some place. Guess I feel a little responsible if the experience doesn't go good. But this place was so cheap compared with what most have to pay at the regular optical places I felt how could you go wrong. One could always take the price of the entire pair of glasses from them and get the local optical place to put lenses in and still be money ahead.
I've ordered several pair from them cause I just leave them laying around and too lazy to carry them. I only need the distance vision for driving at night. But the close-up stuff is another matter. I find myself wearing them more just cause I get tired of always looking for reading glasses. Just seems easier to leave them on my nose and I don't have to look for them as long.
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I was riding not too long ago and noticed that I was seeing double. Not two object real far apart but double none the less. On a Bike that's not good.
I went to the Eye Dr. and after the exam was told that my eyes were fine except the double vision was caused by "Dry Eyes". They recommended that I use Eye drops Twice a day. Not the kind that stopped Red Eyes because that was too strong. I started using the drops twice a day and low and behold I don't see double anymore.
If you have the same problem, try it, it just might work for you.
It's safer.
caseysanta 
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