New Progressives
I passionately hate my progressives. Remember how they replaced the lenses in March? The coating on the new lenses started peeling a few weeks later, and there is now a handful of blobs on the right lens.
No matter how often I adjust the glasses, they still slip down. I prefer to stumble around the house without seeing anything than wearing the glasses. Taking them off is my equivalent to other people’s bra removal at the end of the day. I sigh with relief when I can take them off my face.
“There is a way to fix this,” Josh told me. “You can get new glasses and make the bad glasses your backup progressives.”
Simple, yes. But I now need to muster the energy to go to the store, try on glasses, and buy the insurance in case the new ones peel, too. That is a lot right now. So I keep wearing the terrible progressives and wait until work ends for the day, and I can leave them in the case until tomorrow.
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Oooh – but you don’t have to leave the house! I got my progressives online at Zenni. They use your webcam to measure your focal length/distance. I think you can do virtual try-ons too – if not there, then other online vendors. You can’t test the feel, but I think they have fairly liberal return policies. And they’re much cheaper… Also, if you have a shape you like, they probably have 17 different variations in 20 colors.
I’m all for you getting out to take care of things, but there are alternatives so you can stay home until you’re ready to go out and do stuff.
Oh nooo, that sounds terrible. That must cause headaches to have the blobs in your field of vision! I got mine from Warby Parker, and did not have to go anywhere. Well, that’s not entirely true. I went to get them adjusted. But all the measurements and everything were accurate with their web thing and the progressives seem to be in the right space. I hope you found a solution — crappy glasses can really ruin everything.
A coating peeling off sounds like very substandard work. They should replace them free of charge.
Slipping down is easily fixed – go back to the place you bought them, and get them properly fitted. The new glasses I got in April slipped down ALL the time – so much so that I wore the backup (ie old) glasses on my long flights to Sth Africa. As soon as I got home, I went in, the took my glasses, stuck them into a machine that melted/bent them, and ten seconds later my glasses stay on my face. Makes a difference to focusing too – as the lenses are where they’re supposed to be.