in the meantime, I recommend prescription progressive lenses. It is like seeing the world in high def for the first time since childhood. Quite an eye opener. Not for the faint of heart.

I don't think I've heard my optometrist say progressive before.

and see what the world looks like. Hippies and banksters everywhere. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

they're essentially trifocals without the lines, so they look like single vision lenses.

and it never stops sucking

Seriously, I feel your pain.

as soon as I find my glasses

I've always had to wear glasses.

a combination of age and monitoring multiple consoles for decades

I have three. One for newsprint, one for the computer, and bifocals for everything else. And for the really fine print I use a jeweler's loop.

I can see why you would, though. Different demands.

every time there was a sidebar conference and the lawyers and judge had to look at some papers, one removed their glasses, one put their glasses on, and the third switched from one pair to the other. For some reason I found it amusing. (I've been wearing glasses for decades.)

Though always annoying.

I have two pairs of glasses....but three lenses. One pair is bifocals, for walking, driving and reading.
The other pair is for my computer.

It seems I always have the wrong pair on at the wrong time...I'm constantly going back and forth
from computer to chores and back again. About ten times a day I have to go to another room and
switch glasses. Irritating.

Compared to other things later in life, this is nothing.

He still is able to pass the DMV eye test without corrective lenses. I got my first glasses for myopia when I was in the second grade. My eyes are so bad I am not a candidate for a lasix procedure.

I was always nearsighted and could read small print. But now my eyesight has reversed. I can see and read signs and small print at a distance. Now I need reading glasses for small print and to see images up close. My eye surgeon said that is common after cataract surgery. I am not complaining because my eyesight is 100% improved.

surgical solution instead. I have much better than 20/20 vision - when I had it tested like 10 years ago I was struggling but could still read the either the last line or second to last line on the eye chart, doctor told me "just stop, your eyes are fine" so I've never had to deal with glasses or contacts. I even dislike wearing sunglasses.

Random / off topic I know, but still

At about the age of 40, all of the sudden I couldn't read if I had my lenses in.

Went to the optometrist and they prescribed monovision.

I use one eye to see far and one to see up close...

But if you can't read without them in, probably won't help you at all.

I guess as we age some muscle in our eye becomes weaker and can't fight through the prescription for the nearsightedness, therefore making you feel like you can't read up close. When in actuality it was just the lenses and a weakening of some eye muscle.

Is that I can adjust the size of print and pictures, and The virtual keyboard is huge!

Welcome to Our Reading Glasses World!

from college and they all had to look for their glasses to read the menu.