Reading glasses- wearers, what do you do in bed?

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I’ve recently had to get reading glasses and now find I can no longer lie in bed with one ear on the pillow, looking at my book or phone because my glasses leg will get twisted. It’s also uncomfortable so I don’t think that buying cheap glasses will work. what do people do about this?

Is there a solution to this like glasses on a soft headband? Or do I just have to accept a I can only read sitting up now?

Turn the font size up on my kindle! Or wear an older pair of glasses to bed.

A few years ago I got my mum a pillow with a speaker built in.

I only ever read with one eye. I don’t have binocular vision, although both eyes work perfectly okay.. It’s not really about scrunching your eye, it’s more in case of sitting it comfortably into your eye socket. It was a bit weird to begin with, but it very quickly became perfectly acceptable.

I’ve just ordered some snoozeband headphones, thanks to those who recommended them. They obviously solve a different problem, nothing to do with the glasses, but maybe I will get more into listening at bedtime rather than reading. I stopped because au was always listening to the Archers and falling asleep before the end so I missed too many plot developments!

PS I do get that just wearing one normal earphone is the obvious solution but I somehow prefer sound in both ears when spoken radio.

So I solved this problem for myself by falling asleep with glasses on and breaking one of the legs off. So now I snuggle down wearing the glasses but with no spectacle leg on the pillow side. Works really well 🤣

Hahaha this is EXACTLY what I do but there is no way I could have explained it this well!

I only use non-prescription (cheap) reading glasses and inevitably one of the arms will drop off so I save those for reading in bed, depending on which side I'm lying.

Can you buy a cheap pair from the £1 shop or similar and just snap the leg off so when you lie on that side there isn’t a leg to get in the way?

you would need to know your prescription to match as best you can

My prescription is about -10 so making the font larger is useless.

I usually lie on my side and make a triangular frame with the fingers of the side I'm lying on to keep the weight off my face. Thumb roughly
where the jaws meet and fingers above the glasses.

Or, imagine having a high pony tail... I put my arm up on my pillow out at a right angle and then reach back to grab the pony tail. It makes a triangle where your cheek rests on your upper arm and your head is resting on your wrist/ palm of the hands and your glasses fit inside the triangle made by your arm so there isn't any pressure on them. Then I can hold the e-reader or phone on its side. I prefer to lock the screen so it doesn't flip when I tilt it.

In bed I sit up anyway, but until I got my sunreaders this was what I did when I couldn't see the text clearly in sunglasses. However, if you are absolutely determined to lie down in bed and read, and provided that reading in bed is more important to you than looking like a twerp - what about precription swim goggles? I don't need them now (cataract surgery so my distance sight is now 20/20 - yay!!) but had some for swimming/snokelling because it was the only way I could see anything. As long as your prescription isn't too unique, you can often buy them on line quite cheaply. Held in place by a rubberised band so nothing to break.