prescription glasses (bifocals)

I just got my eyes checked and the doc says I could benefit from using bifocals.  I resisted cause thats for old people...   Hmmm, well ok I'll give them a try I said.  I can now tie the heck out of some fishing knots with those glasses!  It's easy to thread the eye of the hook now too.  I guess I'm getting older but also wiser I think.  I'm keeping the bifocals.   

I'm going to the doc to get my eyes checked out. I can see far away good but the knot tying is getting harder and harder.
And my arms are sick of holding the phone 4 feet away while I type this.

I'm in the same boat here ... just on the edge of needing reading glasses.

-Allen

You can get no line bi focals with tinting so when you go outside they go dark as sun glasses
Old days there was a line on bi focals. today no.
Cant get polorized and tinting on same so need second pair for fishing?

I only have one that actually works, I was born with lazy eye and have 20/400 vision in my bad eye.  Over time the good eye has slowly worn out and I sit on the cusp of having to get bi focals as well. I had 20/20 in the good eye up until my 30's, now at 50 I know the Bifocals are coming.

For out on the water I use either the cheap reader sunglasses like the ones from DeWalt that sell for around $10 or when I want polarized sunglasses I have the Coyote bifocals which are still inexpensive compared to tinted prescription sunglasses and work better. The tinted prescription are not polarized. The self darkening will not work in a car so they are of no use for me.

Not polarized but top notch UV protection and a 2.0 reading insert, I've been wearing them for years,

http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Glasses-2-0-Gray-Polycarbonate/dp/B0078RC7BI/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1403229394&sr=8-5&keywords=elvex+rx200

Went to the local fly shop, they have some good choices!

Go to the 99cent store and pick up some 1.5X or higher if you need them cheaters.  I have them all over the place now.  If you are straining any bit to read small print or do stuff, then you are hurting your eyes.  It makes a heck of a difference.

I need them if I read more than 4 hours straight. Ben Franklin invented bifocals, and he was a legitimate badass.

I've been using" cheap sunglasses" from CVS that have magnifiers on the bottom and are polarized. They are in the "as seen on TV" section.They work great for fishing! Just a tip...

I used my Vision Health benefit from work and got prescription POLARIZED sunglasses at Costco. 
Love them. 

 
  Been using "Progressive" lenses now for a few years.   Had perfect vision up till 2006 then went to shit.  Right eye a little worse than left.  I need to update my safety glasses to new prescription, last trip out to Or. I noticed that using them to read was getting difficult and it was right lens preventing clear focus.   

Welcome to the club...
I'm 53 now and a few years ago decieded it was  nice to see the  paper without struggling. I got progressive Transitions(auto darkening with no lines bifocals)
Its not polarized but sure is nice to see close and far away.
Just one step closer to being an old fart. 
Ps, I'm gonna be a grandpa in a day or two , yea!
Another step...

mine happened at 39---so like 8 years ago...
I'm lucky i only  had to get the weakest ones ...like a 1.25+ reading glasses...and it has stayed the same ones for 8 years...I get em at walmart for like 6-8 bucks for a 3 pack in the pharmacy section and the three pack lasts a bit-plastic frame ones are better than wire if you step on em etc.......must have ten pair here and there...i can get by otw without em still so far...but for laptop and home rigging it's great having em....

6-8 bucks for 3 pairs and they are as good as any 20-$ ones I've had....some dollar store ones can be good-even great tough glasses ---hit and miss---but most make my eyes hurt ....