Using old glasses as computer glasses?

[Terabith]

I got new glasses today, and they're awesome for distance and driving, which was where I was finding things blurry, but they feel too powerful for computer work.  I take my glasses entirely off for sustained reading.  When I had my exam, the optometrist expressed some mild concern that my nearsightedness has gotten slightly worse in the last couple years, since it doesn't usually get worse in your 40's.  I started wondering today if what happens is I get new glasses, wear them for everything other than sustained reading, and my eye accommodates to that and gets worse?  I wondered if it would be okay to wear my old glasses for computer work?  

I'd prefer not to get trifocals, since I have never been able to get used to bifocals with plain glass on the bottom, but the computer is too far away for me to see completely unaided.  

[vonfirmath]

I have a separate pair of "Computer glasses"

 

I have bifocals for reading and walking around/driving/etc. But I use the computer all the time and they don't quite work (I had to hold my head at an odd angle to see the screen) so the doctor had me bring in the distance from me to the computer and I got a separate pair of single vision glasses calibrated just for using the computers. Its hard to read a book with them but I can manage the printouts I need to read.

Edited April 28, 2021 by vonfirmath

[Loowit]

I would look into getting a separate pair of glasses for the computer.  They make a special glasses for computer work.  My DH has a pair and he loves them.  He just started to need glasses in the last couple of years.

I take off my glasses for working on the computer.  The screen is the wrong distance for my bifocals to work for either distance or close up.  I should get a pair for when I work at the computer, but so far I can still see well enough.

[Lanny]

The last time I went to the Optometrist I asked her to give me two (2) very different prescriptions: One for normal eyeglasses, which I had made into Prescription Sunglasses. The other is a pair I am wearing now for use with my laptop (currently connected to a 19" display).

NOTE: The PDs are different.  The two pairs of glasses have the same frame, but the PDs are different.  That is NOT an error, the PDs should be different, on a pair of glasses for the laptop and a pair of glasses for normal distance.

These were included in an order from Zenni Optical and I take the ones for the laptop off and put them back on probably dozens of times each day. They are in the least expensive metal frames that Zenni sells, which are $6.95 including basic lenses. We always pay extra for the Anti-Reflective coating 

[PeterPan]

I have two sets of progressives, one for most of the time and another that are workspace progressives. With workspace progressives they flip the proportions, so there's almost no distance vision and it's all mid and close up. So I'm wearing my workspace progressives right now. I get the frames in a different color from my regular (driving, cooking, tv watching, etc.) progressives.

I find progressives flawless. After a few semi-satisfactory attempts other places, I now bite the bullet and buy them through the optometrist. You can either pay the get hosed price ($1000 for two pairs, it's the big city and they have bills, lol) or choose from their budget box ($200 a pair). So for $400 I get digitally cut, shockingly clear glass that is better than Costco/Sams, Zenni, or any of that. The fashion is meh, but I'm sorta last year/meh on my fashion anyway, lol.

The trick with progressives is move like a robot. Apparently I do because I have zero problems with them. Go figure. https://www.readingglassesetc.com/pages/rx-lenses/prescription-occupational-progressives.html  Here's a link with pictures so you can see the difference. 

[Teaching3bears]

8 hours ago, Terabith said:

I got new glasses today, and they're awesome for distance and driving, which was where I was finding things blurry, but they feel too powerful for computer work.  I take my glasses entirely off for sustained reading.  When I had my exam, the optometrist expressed some mild concern that my nearsightedness has gotten slightly worse in the last couple years, since it doesn't usually get worse in your 40's.  I started wondering today if what happens is I get new glasses, wear them for everything other than sustained reading, and my eye accommodates to that and gets worse?  I wondered if it would be okay to wear my old glasses for computer work?  

I'd prefer not to get trifocals, since I have never been able to get used to bifocals with plain glass on the bottom, but the computer is too far away for me to see completely unaided.  

I am too sleepy right now to explain exactly why but I think this is a good idea if you find it works for you.