Question about peripheral vision with new eyeglasses?

Question

ok, so at my latest eye exam, my doctor suggested I get bifocals. The thing is I'm only 23 and really think they were just trying to get me to spend more money on my new glasses. So I asked the optometrist what the difference would be if I didnt get bi-focals and just got a pair of glasses for distance. She said it would work fine, but that it would take me time to get used to reading and being in front of a computer, since that would be close up. So I got just the single distance lenses today and I'm noticing that my peripheral vision is blurry, but that when I look at something straight on, it's perfectly clear. Does anyone know if this is normal and that my eyes will just adjust? Or should I go back to the optometrist cause I might have made a bad choice?

Answer 1

Single or bifocals does not affect peripheral vision.
I've never experienced that with bifocals or tri.

Peripheral vision sucks anyway with glasses.
You will learn to turn your head eyes slightly.
Blurriness may be just temporary. It may just appear blurry at first with the edge of the glasses or the frames.

Answer 2

Biggest problem with peripheral vision and glasses is that the new glasses styles are too small. Yeah, the big frames may be out of style, but you can at least have a greater field of vision. If you have extremely bad vision, the difference is very noticable. I also recently went to bifocals, was no big deal, did not take any time to get used to-and I have extreme vision (1050/20 and 1150/20). You may want to spend a few bucks and buy a bigger pair of frames, if you downsized this last time.

Thanks for a real question on health, and not about masterbation frequency!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Leave it a few days and see if it gets better. If there is no improvement get back to the optometrist.

Answer 4

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