Vari-bloody-focals?

The opposite. You need to point your nose at what you want to look at to get the focus right.

I have one pair with very expensive lenses (Hoya ID) and there was no 'getting used to them' at all, the vision was just great from the first time I put them on. The cheaper backup pair weren't so good but were fine in a day or so. I think you get what you pay for with these.

Mine are too loose as well. I discovered that if you insert something into the hinge area, between the arm and the frame, it tightens them up. I experimented with little bits of tissue paper initially , but now have a little bit of glue in there which stops the arms opening as wide. I’m not sure if that makes sense. I can still fold the arms in - there is just a small blob of glue about 1mm thick on the end of the arm at the hinge which prevents the arm from fully opening up.
It works really well - if you can understand what I’m saying!

I tried mine for a month and hated them. But I want to love them because the constant swapping of glasses is such a pain. It seemed to me that you have to keep your head quite still with them, whereas I discovered I must move my head a lot because I'm always looking all over the place. It's hard to describe.

I wear varifocals and after a brief period of adjustment (hours, not days) I’ve had no trouble. Can see fuck all through varifocal contacts.

Can't stand them. I have two different pairs for reading and distance.

I wear glasses. Long ago I used to wear contact lenses and tried varifocal contact lenses. I nearly fell down the stairs in Specsavers trying them out. I’ve never even tried them in actual glasses. I just know I’d hate them

Took me a couple of days but have been wearing them for about 10 years now.

The only thing I struggle with is escalators, particularly going down, with the moving lines from the treads

I paid for the most expensive and never got the queasy experience however for close reading they just aren’t good enough. I have a very good optician and he sent them back once. It improved but I still find prescription glasses for reading better so I have both which is really annoying as still have 2 pairs to carry around. They’re fine for reading labels, signs, short pieces of text etc but not if I want to read a book.

You don’t even notice you are moving your head. It becomes an entirely unconscious action very quickly.

I couldn’t cope with changing glasses all the time. I would be forever losing them.

I've had mixed experiences. They need to fully check the positioning of the transition from near to far focus is correct, so go to a reputable optician. And be prepared to go back if it doesn't feel right and get it altered

I'm in 2 minds whether to get them again, I seem to take them off for near vision anyway as I'm short sighted, so I may just get the long distance ones.

When i first got varifocals i got two pairs, glasses and sunglasses

dh had tried them before and didn’t get on with him so he told me to get the most expensive lenses in the glasses and I got cheaper lenses for the sunglasses

i did notice a difference, i wear my glasses a lot (obvs) but my sunnies are just for driving and reading on holiday, i don’t generally wear them to walk round with

I was the same, hated them to start with, took them off or wore my old ones to relax.
but now I’ve got used to them I love them, took a few weeks.
remember to point your nose at what you’re looking at!

I've tried them twice, couldn't get on with them at all and I tried both for a month. It was hard going downstairs, felt like I was in a fishbowl, and hated having to move my head all the time. I had the most expensive option.

I just wear a very old pair or reading glasses all the time - I need to increase print size on kindle, use a monitor for work, and distance is slightly out of focus but it will have to do.

Maybe it's down to how big the difference is between close reading and distance prescription. Mine is 2 points, maybe it's just too big.

I've just given up on mine after 4 months and have now got occupational lenses which just have reading and middle distance.

I couldn't get on with the distortion at the edge of the glasses for long sight (I paid for top of the range lenses).
My distance vision is fine so I think that made it feel worse that I couldn't see to the side.

The varifocal lenses didn't work for my laptop or work computer, but these occupational lenses are great.

I've only had them a few days and I'm in the process of weighing up which is more annoying: having to put glasses on and off all the time or actually being able to see properly when they're not on... so annoying that you can't have both!

My husband swears by his and says he doesn't notice the distortion any more, but I think if I'm still noticing it after 4 months, I'm not sure it will ever be better.

I used a computer with a couple of displays when I worked and the optician made a point of adjusting the position of the gradient to suit that.

But I think glasses in general are a second-rate solution for such a universal problem. Having spent 45 years not needing them I find the restrictiveness very irritating. Obviously there are contact lenses but even so.

Tbf I haven’t actually tried them because I’ve been put off by posters here saying they haven’t liked them. It’s a lot to shell out for good ones to find they’re no good. And I don’t like the idea of having to move my head every time I look at something different.

They fit fine??? I just don't like wearing them and only need them for reading, so it was a bit of a waste of money when I could have just got stronger hobby glasses.

love mine. there are different types and I usually go for the top end. this is something which isn't worth skimping on.

how long have you had them?

I found the adjustment to varifocals easy, but the quality of lenses, I believe, makes a huge difference.

I got a quote from an optician, and it was our of my price range. I bought mine from Iolla, which do a really good quality lens as standard at an affordable price.

Having said that, I'm not sure they work for everyone.

Ive only just got used to them after several attempts. I still can’t use them for computer work though, i have to use my readers. Im fine in my phone or kindle though as im looking down on it.
How do others manage if the screen is in eye level?

But they aren't impractical and shit for most people. They are a game changer.

It's unfortunate you can't get on with them. I work at a screen all day and would find having to change glasses all the time a PITA.

I've been wearing distance glasses nearly fifty years, and in the last few years had to go to multifocals (the term in Australia for varifocals) a few years ago. I've found it can depend on where you get them, since different optometrists have different lenses. I tried GMHBA when I moved cities, and couldn't adjust to their lenses at all. Went back to SpecSavers (which I'd had most recently) and adjusted far more easily.

My short range vision has deteriorated a lot over the years, which pisses me off mightily. I used to be able to do close up work - fine, tiny sewing, or reading - without glasses. Now I find even the multis aren't great for it, and I have a pair of single-vision specs for it as well.

I hated them. They made me feel sick. I gave them a good bash, but just couldn’t get used to them. I couldn’t cope with walking in them and kept feeling like I was falling over.

I’ve now got contact lenses for general wear, and then a low prescription pair of reading-type glasses for reading/computer stuff