I started with glasses, but since I was seventeen I switched to contact lenses. Glasses were much less of a fashion accessory back then than they are today. So as a teenager I was very happy that my parents allowed me to switch to contact lenses. I have now come to the point where glasses are coming back into my life, as reading glasses with prescription. It takes some getting used to I can tell you. Especially if you've been used to putting lenses on and off your whole life. And that that now turns out to be no longer enough!
I think everyone who goes through the transition to reading glasses recognizes my feeling. It takes some getting used to. Not only the fact that you have glasses on your head again, but also 'the face'. And the fact that prescription reading glasses also wear differently than just the lenses you are used to wearing. I have to get used to the transitions you keep seeing.
If you have monthly contact lenses that you wear daily, or annual contact lenses, the feeling of glasses on your head is really strange. You cannot put the glasses completely on your nose and then look far away with them. You will of course not see anything. But it also makes you nauseous. At least I do. At the moments when I need the reading glasses with prescription, I am constantly putting them on and taking them off. Putting it on when I need to see or doing something up close and taking it off when one of the children at the table across from me says something to me. Very restless and nauseating for me.
Fortunately, I can sometimes postpone the use of prescription reading glasses. I'll tell you how.
I've had prescription reading glasses at home for a year and a half or so. Those reading glasses are hanging from our spice rack. Crazy place I hear you think, but our spice rack is in the middle of the kitchen and for me that is the place where I need the reading glasses the most. To be able to read ingredients on a jar or package, for example. Or to be able to read a recipe properly. Not when it's high summer, by the way, because then it's so light that I can still see it all well. But in the winter I lack strength in my lenses, so I needed my reading glasses every now and then.
By the way, a switch in my monthly lenses has freed me from using my reading glasses. Unless I have to put a thread through a needle, then I grab my reading glasses again. My optician advised me about multifocal lenses. Frank had been wearing them for a while and could clearly see more up close, so I also got a set to try. And sure enough… I now see a bit better up close again. It is not the case that everything is 100% sharp again. But it is a clear improvement compared to before.
By the way, did you know that multifocal lenses are also possible if you now wear lenses with a cylinder, such as Acuvue Oasys for Astigmatism. So you can no longer do without prescription reading glasses, but you do not want to give in completely to the use of your reading glasses? Then check for multifocals.
Yet I notice in myself that I increasingly 'give in' to reading glasses. In fact, I don't even care anymore that I have to put on those glasses every now and then. It's more about the feeling of being seasick that I still get. But perhaps that can also be remedied by purchasing prescription reading glasses from a reputable optician, online or offline. And not as I have now done at the local supermarket, Kruidvat or HEMA and put prescription reading glasses with your other groceries.
Do you recognize that feeling of getting seasick when you put on your reading glasses, or does it not bother you at all and should I just keep going?
