For the first time in my life (I'm 46) I needed correction to help me read. I've been wearing glasses for distance vision since I was a teenager. Based on the recommednation of everyone I talked to I bought progressive lenses, supposedly state of the art, from an independent and highly recommended optician. They were quite expensive (lenses alone were 0 Cdn, plus frames at close to the same amount). I've only had them for a couple of days now, but so far I absolutely hate the things. If you look straight ahead through the appropriate part you get the proper correction, but it seems you seldom do that naturally. So most of the time everything is distorted to some extent. I've not yet been able to figure out what the middle portion of the lenses are supposed to be doing, because I never had any problem with seeing beyond 18-24 inches with my old glasses. As near as I can tell the outer portions of the lenses don't correct properly either (they warned me about that) and the distortion out there is quite severe. The only safe way to do things like walk down stairs is to plant your chin on your chest so you can hope to see your feet. So I'm wearing my new high-buck glasses to work where I need them to read, but the minute I get home I go to my old single-vision glasses. Not what I expecteded, to say the least. Do people who have these things eventually get used to them? I'm going to give them a few more days but right now I'm tempted to go back next week, bite the bullet, and get different lenses made up. For those in the trade, what sort of rejection rates do you get with progressives? I find it hard to understand what advantage they are supposed to have other than the lack of a line, and the trade-offs of distorted off-center vision and constant over/under correction seems quite severe. But never having worn any kind of "regular" bifocal I don't know what that experience would be like by comparison. Am I nuts?