Varifocals- is it normal for the left and right of the reading point to be blurry?

[B00kWoman]

So you need to keep moving your head to keep the words you’re reading in focus?

Yes and for that reason I have never been able to adapt. You need to give it 3 or 4 weeks to be sure. Also the more you pay the wider the reading pane is.

Yes it's normal. You need to position your head to find the reading point.

Yes you tilt your head up to look at the bottom of the lens.

Mine aren’t blurry anywhere?

Ah, I think I know what you mean. Yes it is normal with cheaper lenses, the more you pay ,the less of the blurriness either side you get. My first pair were from specsavers and I got my money back, second pair were from Boots and I absolutely love them.

Mine don't have that now either but I did have to take them back at first due to blurriness and other issues. The optician sent them away for a lens change as he said the "corridor" on the lens was probably the wrong width for me (I think this is the intermediate area where the distance and near vision meet). After the rejig they have been brilliant with no blurring and no need to actively move my head around to get in focus for reading. They are my second pair and my first were great right from the start so I knew very quickly second time around that the lenses weren't quite right

Yes it’s normal for cheaper lenses.

i have the top of the range specsavers ones and they are great. I have previously tried cheaper specsavers ones which weren’t great and also v expensive independent opticians ones which were great but no better than specsavers top ones and twice the price. (About 5-6yrs ago £420 for lenses only in my own frames!!)

I don't have that at all, but my (complicated prescription) lenses cost over £700. I notice a huge improvement over my old ones, which left me unable to safely walk down stairs!

3 or 4 months, not weeks!

All I can say is I've worn them for over 10 years and never had this, so IMO it is unusual.

Depends on the quality of the lens. The better the lens the wider the field of vision without being blurry. I’ve got a very complex prescription-9.50 both eyes, astigmatism and a strong reading add and I’ve had the top grade of lens from specsavers, Asda and vision express and ended up returning all of them for a refund as they weren’t a patch on the £600 lenses I had from my local independent optician, no blurry bits at all.

Depends on the quality, I bought the tailor made ones from spec savers as the have a wider viewing area opposed to the basic ones which have much less hence the blurry edges , despite that I had really bad blurriness and and tripped on the stairs , I went back and they adjusted the height of the distance and I was looking through the intermediate part of the lens and every thing was going on and out of focus . It might be worth going back and asking them to change them , mine are perfect now , if not it's worth upgrading to a more expensive lens

Got the most expensive my optician offer, been sent back once and they’ve improved. No blurry bits with long medium distance it’s just the reading that’s the issue stool but it is better. I can find a good focus point easier now. It just seems to not be that big though.

My new optician showed me a chart of where the blurry areas would be for each price-point of lens, and let me choose which I was prepared to pay for.

Previous optician didn't even tell me it was a thing.

I haven't noticed this. Mind you, I mostly wear my monovision contact lenses (different lenses for each eye, one for distance one for reading), and I don't wear my lenses or my glasses for reading in bed, so that's not helpful 😂