September 1, 2021 - EyeClarity Podcast
Today I’m going to take a question from a patient who is dealing with farsightedness, astigmatism, and wearing progressive lenses. And she asked the question about her new progressive lens prescription. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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Hey folks, it’s Dr. Sam and I want to welcome you to another EyeClarity podcast. Today I’m going to take a question from a patient who is dealing with farsightedness, astigmatism, and wearing progressive lenses. And she asked the question about her new progressive lens prescription. And you’ll hear my response. Hey Leanna, I wanted to respond concerning your new prescription and what you’re experiencing. So there’s three aspects to the new progressive lens prescription that I want to report on. Number one, in this new prescription, it is very different than your old progressive lenses. First of all, the lenses are balanced so that each eye has the same prescription. And this is revolutionary for you. Because you’re all prescription had very different prescriptions in your right eye and left eye. And whenever you wear a different prescription in each eye, what it does is it actually reinforces that difference. So by getting the lenses to be the same, it’s a vision exercise to encourage both of your eyes to collaborate better, and that’s what we’re aiming to do. So it’s moving you in a direction of integration.
The second aspect of the progressive lens prescription is that I completely took out the astigmatism correction. So when a person wears in the stigmatism prescription for a long period of time, what it does is it creates it creates a warping in their visual perception. And so when you take the astigmatism out, it can be really weird because the warp is gone, but it’s what you’ve been used to. So you go wow, this is like is it more magnified? Is it what’s going on here. So it’s introducing a way for you to reduce the warping in your eyes, in your mind, in your brain and in your body. Now, that’s going to be a process of unwinding. It’s not like an instantaneous. W
ow, I don’t have the astigmatism, I really get it. Now we did introduce the computer prescription remember, that was the single vision prescription, and that had no astigmatism in it. And in my notes, it looked as though you really liked it that there was no problem in adjusting to it. But with the progressive lenses, that’s a whole other animal because remembering the progressive lens, it’s splitting your vision into three different levels, and it’s cutting out I would say 70 to 80% of your peripheral vision. So the non astigmatism progressive lenses, I could see where that might be an adjustment for you. Okay, now, here’s number three. When I created the new prescription, one of the things you wanted was some help in the distance with your farsightedness. So I gave you that. And then the middle part of the lens is the same exact prescription as your current computer glasses that you chose. And remember, you went to the drugstore, and you tried on different magnifiers and you chose the plus two. And that’s what I put into the center of the lens. Now below that is the reading prescription, which is about plus 2.50.
And it’s really dangerous. I’m saying dangerous. If you plan on using these new progressive lenses for your digital time, I know that most people love using their progressive lenses. Because it’s one lens, it’s convenient, there’s no inconvenience and having to switch glasses, but when you wore those old progressive lenses, that’s what was causing the major deterioration in your vision. So if I had my druthers, I would say do not use the progressive lenses for the computer, because that’s not going to serve you. My advice for using the progressive lenses would be you know if you’re going out and you need to drive In order to be able to see the road sides, but I’m not even sure of that, because I think your report was, you could see fairly well without any prescription, but I’m okay with you wearing them for distance. But you have to remember with the progressive lenses, the only part of the lens you’re using for distance is like the top 20%, which is kind of a bummer, because in driving, the better your peripheral vision, the better you’re going to drive. So you got to make pretty exaggerated head movements, to be able to look through the top part of the lens Anyway, you can use the progressive lenses if you’re going to the store, if you’re going out for dinner, you know, if you’re in a situation where you’re doing multiple focusing at once, but it should not be your primary optical system when you are on screen time.
And I know most of your day is on screen time. And if I heard you correctly, the computer blue blocking glasses that you chose the power, and we made them up for you that those seem to work well. And if you want to use the progressive lenses intermittently for short screen time, I’m okay with that. And as you’re saying the maverick magnification might be too much. You’re not sure about that, I think just adjust to the lenses, you may need to lower your chin a little bit if you’re looking at the computer to make sure you’re getting that sweet spot to use the computer prescription the plus two that’s in your computer glasses. And it’s a therapeutic lens. It’s it’s moving you away from no astigmatism, balancing your two eyes and getting your two eyes together. But the way to really heal your vision is to wear the progressive lenses as little as possible. And I know that that’s really hard for most people who are in progressive lenses to hear so I can compromise that by saying use them a little bit, but sparingly. So I hope that that’s helpful. Best of luck.
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