Adjusting to Multifocal Glasses
Posted: Monday, April 11, 2011
by Hillary Glaser
GlassesUSA.com
For those who have never worn eyeglasses before and for those who have worn eyeglasses for years, multifocal glasses are a whole new experience that will take some patience and time to adapt to. We give you a few helpful steps to make the process easier.
Adjusting to multifocal glasses wear can take some time and patience but, in the end, perfect sight within one eyeglasses frame will make it all worthwhile. Multifocal lenses enable you to see up close and far away within one lens. Rather than needing a pair of glasses for distance correction and another pair for reading - you can use one pair of glasses with either progressive or bifocal lenses.
Step one: stop wearing your old eyeglasses and decide that your new eyeglasses are your only eyeglasses.
Step two: wear your new eyeglasses all day, every day, as high up on your nose as possible in order to ensure a faster transition.
Note: The biggest difference that you will encounter is to learn that you need to turn your entire head when looking at something, not just your eyes. Some people adjust immediately; others can take up to two weeks. Take your time and understand that it is a process and will soon be second nature.
Step three: ensure that your new frames fit you properly without being too tight or loose and with comfortable nose pads.
Step four: whether wearing bifocal or progressive lenses, you should put on your glasses and then choose an object at least twenty feet away to stare at and test out the focus points to ensure that you can see clearly.
When wearing bifocals, if you can see the line of the bifocal, then the bifocal height needs to be adjusted. If all is in order with your focus points, then don’t bend your neck but drop your eyes down as if to read and then try to read something at your regular reading distance. If you see everything clearly then your glasses were manufactured correctly.
If not, send them straight back for immediate correction.
Note: You have to move your head to the side as much as possible until the object of your attention comes into focus so that the visual adjustment ensures perfect clarity.
Step five: you should get up and carefully walk around, being careful to look straight ahead. Your sight should be completely clear. As you move your eyes to the edge of your multifocal glasses you will notice that you lose clarity. If you move your eyes downwards, the same will happen.
Note: The idea is that your eyes will eventually know to immediately drop to the necessary position to see things up close.
Step six: when walking or climbing stairs, you should NEVER look through the lower part of your eyeglass lenses and ALWAYS through the upper section.
Hillary Glaser is a social networking specialist and expert in cross-media promotion, currently working on promoting prescription eyeglasses. She is the Director of Marketing and Special Projects for GlassesUSA.com - the easiest way to buy glasses online, which now offers free shipping on all US orders with the code FreeShip10.
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