Difficulties with vision when driving during the hours of darkness

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Any opticians around? I wear varifocals which are fine for daylight driving, reading etc. After dark I find the glare from headlights, streetlights etc too much. I last saw an optician 3 months ago and have no other health or sight problems.

I have stopped driving at night but wonder if there are filters or whatever that could help. Perhaps there are night driving glasses - I would be willing to buy another pair.

Perhaps you need to have anti glare filter put on the lenses

Do you have cataracts OP?

No cataracts, Banana. Geri, thanks for that suggestion. I will look into it.

I have the same problem and find my night vision much better with contact lenses. I have an anti glare coating on my varifocal but it doesn't help.

I have an anti glare coating on my glasses, and it makes a huge difference. Currently using my old glasses after I broke my "new" 2 year old ones, and they don't have the anti glare on, and driving at night is horrendous.

I had my eyes checked at the weekend and said to the optician I was struggling in the dark with oncoming headlights. He said there's been a move towards manufacturers using brighter white lights in new vehicles that blind you even when they're not on full beam. I find it really difficult. He didn't suggest a coating although I know folk that have it on their glasses.

I went back to single vision lenses just for driving in the dark or poor visibility as I wasn't comfortable with the quality of vision with varifocals. You move your eyes a lot when you're driving, not your whole head, so you end up looking sideways in your mirrors for example out of the 'close up' bit of the lenses. Same with varifocal contact lenses, my distance vision simply wasn't anyway near as good as single vision lenses so I wear those for driving in the dark. I take out one pair and put in a new pair to drive, it's so much better.