Kathy, prior to this I mostly wore contacts. Unfortunately my presbyopia came on so suddenly, and with such vengeance, that I found when I was wearing my contacts, I needed to basically walk around at all times wearing granny-like reading glasses on the tip of my nose. I simply cannot focus on close objects at all. It's bizarre to not be able to look down and see my hands! I decided to go with the progressive glasses since I figure if I'm going to have to wear glasses anyway, I might as well wear real glasses that are little more comfortable.

I'd also like to try to figure out how to get back to contacts. While I was waiting the two weeks for my glasses to be done, the optomotrist had me try out various strengths of monovision contacts, but I had a really hard time with that. In order to be able to read with one eye, it had to be so undercorrected for distance that I couldn't read signs with it. I just could not get used to only being able to see out of one eye. So I'm thinking of trying out those bifocal or multifocal contacts.

But I've got to get used to these glasses before I try anything else out. If I have to roll my head around anymore, it might fall off!