Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
No desire whatsoever to do progressives. I have to turn my head to look at something; with the bifocal and a constant focus wide lens, I can keep my head position constant and move my eyes and get the same vision correction for the full azimuth of the lens. The day I took the progressives back and came away with bifocals, it was a quantum improvement. I'm fine with Grandpa glasses.
I suspect you didn't try the good progressives. But if you're happy with bifocals, you'll be money ahead, Varilux are not cheap. Bifocals drove me nuts, couldn't get used to the transition line, it actually made my eyes water. Guess my brain thought something was in my eye causing that distortion.