Are any of you short sighted and using bifocals?

[Miss Z]

Agh, my eyes are going, turns out i'm short sighted (at just 14, grr!). Well, it was going to happen sooner or later, my mum's long sighted and my dad's short-sighted, so i was going to be one or the other! Sorry, i'm not much help here, i don't know what i'm getting yet, but i'm hoping for contact lenses

[Catsnclay]

Ah yes, bifocals......it's a "dirty" word around our house! This is what happens when you get older


Since I wear contact lens, it has become a need to see things close, and that is where bifocals or 1/2 eyes have become part of my life. I tried the mono-vision cl's, but with my line of work it didn't work out for me.

I also have a pair of glasses with the progressive lenses in them, and they do work wonderfully - once you learn how they work.

But most of the time I wear my contact lens (for distance) with a pair of 1/2 eyes VERY close at hand! as a matter of fact I do believe I have a pair of 1/2 eyes in each room of the house, and a pair that stays in my purse, but for some reason I can never find a pair when I need them!

[Barbara]

I have these progressive lenses too. I have -7 regarding short sight and + 1,75 for the reading zone.
I put them on 4 years ago and kept them on my nose. No problem. It is true that you can't see that well on the side zone, well you learn that in a day and will never notice again. The same with that zone in between. You just learn to go over it quickly. It never bothers me.
Just try! It is so much better than looking for your glasses all day long (and I know of whom I'm talking here- someone who has reading glasses, car driving glasses, piano glasses plus bifocals )