Being picky (vain), I bought a pair of frames elsewhere and then had Costco fill the progressive Rx. They charge a small fee for this, but I still saved money over purchasing at an optician's. I have found their work to be excellent.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a low correction and like progressives. My problem is getting halfway-decent lenses. My early pairs were from a no-name optical shop that is now out of business. They were perfect. (I'm sure they outsourced them to a third party but I don't know who.)

Now I try MyEyeDr and they're awful. They offer to regrind the lenses for the same price and they're better but still bad.

Do you have a good optical shop that is good at progressive lenses?

Georgetown Optician.

Very expensive but they do the work in house. I don't think their markeup is unusual, but they do sell expensive frames.

Costco - Lenses + frames cost about half as much as what I've paid in "fancier" stores. I love mine.

It really depends on what your eyes need. Costco has a great reputation, but there are people who really need a bit more than they can provide. I find their frames rather ordinary, but YMMV.

OP, if you buy a pair and it takes more than a day to adjust, they weren't made right. You can get used to almost anything but you shouldn't have to "get used to it".

Anonymous wrote:My insurance will pay $350 plus 20 percent off any amount over $350, but given the full cost, I will still have to pay about $500 out of pocket - depending on how expensive the frames are. Lenses alone are nearly $800 I was told!

Mine are close to that. -6, astigmatism, a few other things, and progressive. I get them done at a good shop that does the work in-house. If you can afford it, OP, spend like this PP and me.

I like my progressives for everything except driving at night. If I don’t have my glasses positioned exactly right so that I’m looking through the top of the lens, things are blurry. It bothers me more when I’m driving at night.

I use my progressive for everything but reading. I am far sighted and I would need different glasses for cooking/chopping veggies, eating, watching TV and driving/walking if I did not have progressives. I can read shout things with them, but I prefer reading glasses for newspapers, computer and books.

There is a learning curve and I think the horror stories you have heard are mainly during that time period. Your eyes and brain get used to them and learn how to make them work. I had never worn glasses before and it took a few months to get to used to the whole thing. Since you have been wearing glasses your whole life, your learning curve should be shorter.

I am -6.5 and got my first pair of Progressives at Costco - they are fine and were not expensive. They definitely recommended a wider lense and am glad I followed their advice.

Costco has the best price. I had to return my first progressive eyeglasses and they reimbursed me for it.

I, too, was worried about transitioning to progressives, but they were like magic and I wore them out of the store and drove home. I never got headaches or felt nauseous. The only time I feel I need to be careful is on stairs as my downward looking depth perception is a bit off. But I'm a fan!

I got progressives last year and absolutely LOVE them. I was a daily contact lens wearer for life, and I completely gave them up because my vision is so much better with the progressives. The adjustment took all of about a day. You're making too much out of this.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a low correction and like progressives. My problem is getting halfway-decent lenses. My early pairs were from a no-name optical shop that is now out of business. They were perfect. (I'm sure they outsourced them to a third party but I don't know who.)

Now I try MyEyeDr and they're awful. They offer to regrind the lenses for the same price and they're better but still bad.

Do you have a good optical shop that is good at progressive lenses?

Georgetown Optician.

Very expensive but they do the work in house. I don't think their markeup is unusual, but they do sell expensive frames.

Costco - Lenses + frames cost about half as much as what I've paid in "fancier" stores. I love mine.

Anonymous wrote:I got them and found they work best with a larger pair of glasses. You do get used to them. It must have taken me about 6 weeks but now they are the new normal and I have not fallen down the stairs.

I like mine now. I tried them in the past, and I simply wasn't able to adjust. Now, in my early 50s, I'm fine with them. I agree that they work best with larger frames.

Progressives seemed like the ideal solution for me (although distance vision isn't as bad as yours and closeup is worse). But I never could get used to the blurring of peripheral vision no matter how much I tried to turn my head to look to the left or right. I ended up abandoning two pairs of expensive progressives and going back to prescription regular and sunglasses for distance and cheap readers to read. Sigh.

Anonymous wrote:I have a low correction and like progressives. My problem is getting halfway-decent lenses. My early pairs were from a no-name optical shop that is now out of business. They were perfect. (I'm sure they outsourced them to a third party but I don't know who.)

Now I try MyEyeDr and they're awful. They offer to regrind the lenses for the same price and they're better but still bad.

Do you have a good optical shop that is good at progressive lenses?

Georgetown Optician.

Very expensive but they do the work in house. I don't think their markeup is unusual, but they do sell expensive frames.

Anonymous wrote:My insurance will pay $350 plus 20 percent off any amount over $350, but given the full cost, I will still have to pay about $500 out of pocket - depending on how expensive the frames are. Lenses alone are nearly $800 I was told!

Depends on where you go and what you need. With a -6 she needs reasonably high index lenses, so they won't be cheap.

My lenses are about that, and my fancy frames another $400.