Post #1523358
2026-04-04 16:39 UTC
@deborahh @mayintoronto @Cassandra
So I was ordering progressive for the first couple of years, but my prescription is changing so quickly right now that I don’t bother. I just order single vision lenses at the reading strength from the progressive prescription and get the longest use of them that way. Wear the old pair for distance and the new pair for close.
When I did order progressives, I asked a kind friend who also happens to be an optician for my measurement details. He kindly obliged and indicated that a presbyotic, astigmatic hyperope is every optician and optometrist’s nightmare 🤪
Though my mother has been in progressives for 45 years and now orders them from Zenni with only measuring her own pupillary distance roughly herself and hasn’t had any issues with her lenses. She went from paying about $1200 for lenses to $200. Progressives for high hyperopia and high astigmatism weren’t cheap.
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@deborahh@cosocial.ca 2026-04-05 14:22
@monstreline @mayintoronto @Cassandra good idea to get cheaper, single vision glasses for specific purposes.