Does anyone wear 2 pairs of glasses, distance and reading?

Question

I just wanted to know how difficult it would be to cope with one pair for reading and one for distance. What would you do if you were in school and needed to take notes?

Answer 1

I would not want to cope with having to wear two pair constantly having to change them during the time I was to wear them. Everything you see has something you might need to read. If you can get one pair do it.

Answer 2

there are some glasses that have two lens one for leng distance and one for reading.

Answer 3

You typically would get bi-focals for that purpose, but I suppose you really would not need to do both at the same time, unless you are an unsafe driver reading a map. So get the distance and have a passenger read the directions or vice versa.

Answer 4

Yes I do!!!  I have reading glasses and ones I use daily :0b  Didn't wanna get bifocals, though I did find out later they have bifocals that don't have those magnifiers on it. LOL

Other then that having two pairs isn't that bad.

Answer 5

yes, it's common to have two pairs of glasses. but if you want to have just one, you can get eye glasses that can be both for distance and reading. i forgot what it's called but you should go to an optometrist. he'll know what it is.

Answer 6

I have those as well as varifocals... There are some jobs that each are best for!

Varifocals are awful for watching television while laid back on the sofa, and for re-wiring ceiling lights, for example.  Distance glasses for the first, reading for the second.

But taking notes off a board, that *is* a job for bifocals or varifocals.

(but then the vast majority of students are under 45, and don't need them anyway...)

As the eyes get less adaptable, more often specialised glasses are needed to cope with particular viewing distances or angles.

A vdu and near pair, or a distance and vdu pair, or...

Answer 7

I do.

Just carry them both with you.

Answer 8

I'm only 17 and I have both.  I have a pair of bifocals that I wear sometimes, but most of the time I wear my contacts for distance and then when I need to read I wear my reading glasses.  It's not all that difficult actually.