Do you have a “boost” in your glasses prescription?

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I’ve been told I need on. Not sure I agree to be honest as I’m fine reading 🤷‍♀️. But optician said it’s a question of dominance. She reckons I’ll benefit from it.

How have people found it with getting used to it? I can’t work out how you can have an area of your glasses which is a different prescription and it not interfere with your general vision.

What do you mean by a boost?
do you mean an addition for reading?
I have a distance prescription but my reading glasses have a addition to make writing clearer so I basically have 2 pairs of glasses for different activities.

Have you had varifocals recommended?
What is your glasses prescription?

Yes a small patch of additional prescription in my lenses for reading. But apparently it’s not varifocals. It’s a kind of pre varifocal. It will be in my distance prescription glasses.

https://www.specsavers.co.uk/glasses/glasses-lenses/superboost?srsltid=AfmBOor1j3VwvRcshkHJ65zhtsgDKAi0trguVdeOF1JTDCwHNywemrTn]]

strange thing is I can read fine in my glasses but I can’t in my contact lenses. I think I need stronger lenses, the optician says I need weaker contact lenses so I can read better. But my distance vision isn’t great in my contact lenses either. So she’s going to try a stronger lens in my dominant eye and a weaker lens in the other….or maybe the other way round.

but as I was leaving she said I ought to get new glasses and have this boost thing added to my glasses prescription

I have boost lenses, its the equivalent of +0.8 reading lens in my glasses.

I actually went for this instead of variafocales as I wasn't sure how well I would cope with them. If you need a strong reading prescription I don't think it helps much. They are definitely better but I will probably go for variafocales next time.

If your contract lenses are to strong then you won't get good distance vision.i always found it harder to read in contract lenses anyway. I haven't worn any in a few years. But had considered going back to them and trying reading glass with the contact lenses. Although I believe they now do variafocale contract lenses (goodness knows how much they cost).

I have thought about reading glasses and contacts. That might work

Yes I have had it in the past. Was described as "office lenses" to me. Was brilliant. I now have full on varifocals and paid for super duper lenses with less "blurred" areas (yours won't have these) and they're brilliant too!

I have a boost, at the bottom of my standard distance lenses (I'm about a -8.00). It has worked really well as a stop gap for the last couple of years. I feel like I now need proper varifocals though and it's not enough anymore.