If you wear varifocals, do you also have varifocal sunglasses?

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If you wear varifocals, but only have a relatively mild prescription for close work, do you also wear varifocal sunglasses? Or do you just have distance sunglasses if you're happy that you can see the speedo etc.? Thanks!

I've just got reactive varifocals for £26.99 delivered. Goggles4U (Not sure if posting the name of the company is allowed but anyway...) had a 73% off sale.

They took about a month to arrive compared to about a week for standard lenses but I'm really happy with them so far.

It didn't bother me, I was just so happy to be able to see properly again!

I have to wear different VDU glass though as my job is 95% peering at data on huge screens.

I've just got reactive varifocals for £26.99 delivered. Goggles4U (Not sure if posting the name of the company is allowed but anyway...) had a 73% off sale.

They took about a month to arrive compared to about a week for standard lenses but I'm really happy with them so far.

Sorry for the multiple posts. I kept getting a message the server was down.

I've been short sighted and had glasses since age nine. Quite a strong prescription, about +8.

I was told I needed varifocals late forties, at first I resisted and bought single vision plus some reading glasses.

Next time I got the varifocals and had no issue with them. Next change, two years later, I went to a different optician and it turned out those glasses never were varifocals. Anyway, then I did get the varifocals and I've had them three times now and they're fine, but I still prefer to take them off to read, not sure why as in the optician I can read the book they put in your hand.

Thanks, I think I have to accept I will need a pair. My prescription is also strong so my glasses cost and arm and a leg and not sure I want to pay that if I don’t get on with varifocals but think it will have to learn to live with them. Probably my just deserts for laughing at my DH when he has to take his glasses off to read 😅

I'm just going down this route and have ordered my first varifocals! For now, for summer I am using multifocal daily contact lenses (not great, but ok, particularly for middle and far vision) with regular sunglasses.

I wear varifocals with reactive lenses, I don’t have a problem when driving with them. Never have. Been wearing them for many years. I’m short sighted, not as short sighted now since cataract surgery.

For anyone new to wearing them: The trick with varifocals is to point your nose at what you want to look at so that you are looking through the correct part of the lens. If you just move your eye you’ll get distorted vision.
My sister couldn’t get away with them at all, she had two pairs of single vision specs and spent half of her time looking for them.

I too have reactive varifocals. They are fab.

First pair of varifocals I didn't have vari sunglasses, but then couldn't read a map, see a menu, see the thing landed on my shoulder..etc etc.
Have had vari sunglasses a few years now and it is better for me.

£80 in Asda, or £120 for two. Highly recommended.

It’s very definitely worth it! Having thought I could manage with just distance lenses in my new sunglasses, last week I had to order varifocal lenses for them. Expensive mistake!

I've also done this with goggles and paid 31 a pair for transition varifocals also 73% off. They took 5 weeks to come but are well made and I am very happy with them

I have varifocal sunglasses - best thing I ever bought! I went for quite a dark tint & they look like proper fashionable sunglasses.

For the PP asking how people hoped with the move to varifocals - I had no issues at all. I wore my old specs to drive home & then didn't venture out for the rest of the day as I was worried about adjusting so just pottered round the house. Next day I was off & have never looked back after recoiling in horror & saying "but they're for old people" when optician suggested them

I have varifocal glasses for both sunglasses and everyday glasses. Last time I went to Specsavers but next time I am definitely going to Asda opticians instead as they are much cheaper.

I have transition ones for everyday use, but I do have prescription sunglasses for driving as transitions don't work in a car due to UV filters in the windscreen.

I treated myself to varifocal sunnies last year - absolutely wonderful, I can read books on the beach now and I wouldn't be without them.

I don't need varifocals, I wear contact lenses and reading glasses. I love the sunglasses you get with a section of reading glass at the bottom. They are not expensive and I have many pairs.

I'm thinking about taking my varifocals back as I'm not getting on with them, but I am thinking that a sunglasses version would actually be useful for driving and reading. Mostly I need glasses for laptop distance, so I think day you'll day I'll go back to normal reading glasses.

I can't have reactive lenses for work but DH has a pair (

Yes I do. I found chopping and.changing between clear varietals and single vision sunglasses (eg when out and about going into and out of buildings etc) made me feel "seasick".

The optician I use has various grades of glasses with different coatings etc. I have the best grade for my clear glasses and a lower one- therefore cheaper - for the sunglasses.

I got my first pair of varifocals 18 months ago and I’m not really friends with them but it’s slowly got better more recently. I still have readers as the varifocals are ok for the Speedo when driving or short pieces of wording but not great for reading books or mumsnet!

sadly I therefore spend my time wandering round the house with my readers on, looking over the top of them for general vision and through them for closer work. When the TV goes on or I drive I swap to the varifocals.

it’s all a bloody pain. I expected great things from the varifocals and paid top whack for the best lenses but they are a bit disappointing.

I've had varifocal sunglasses from Specsavers on a BOGOF for so long as I've had varifocals.

I have thinning on my normal glasses and antiglare and most importantly, I polarise my sunglasses. I always have.

Also, you used to be able to buy very dark sunglasses but no longer so it's not too bad when you drive through a small tunnel in your sunglasses or pop into a shop quickly.

@Cervinia I'm sorry to hear you're not getting on with your varifocals. It sounds as if they're not right for your eyes. I had no trouble with mine right from the off. The only thing I have to be careful with is going down stairs. You need to move your whole head, not just your eyes.

Please go back to your optician or a different one to get them checked out.

@Thinkingblonde

For anyone new to wearing them: The trick with varifocals is to point your nose at what you want to look at so that you are looking through the correct part of the lens. If you just move your eye you’ll get distorted vision.

Goodness, I’ve been wearing varifocals for years with varying degrees of success, I never knew this! Just tried it and what a difference, thanks!