Steve is a 63 year old optician locally who has been dispensing for 35 + years.Steve is hyperoptic; his Rx is about +3.25-75 ou.
In his presbyoptic years he has never been able to wear a progressive add lens. It's not for lack of trying, as he has tried often but will immediately discard these lenses for a lined trifocal. Until last week.
Steve and I have been talking about digitally surface lenses over the last month or so, and Steve consented to try a pair. After selecting a frame which would give him good horizontal and vertical eye movement he sent me the frame and his request for yet another PAL this time digitally surface. One more try.
Steve measured his fitting height at 20 which gave us room to work with a few lens choices.
I decided to put him into the Varilux Physio 360 which would work well in his selected frame. The Physio is new design technology with Wave Front and the 360 is digitally surfaced. A good choice for his Rx.
We delivered the job last week, on 2/20.
Here is Steve's note that followed the next day.
"What an astounding difference (in my Rx range) with these digitally surfaced lenses !! I put them on for the first time about 90 minutes ago and, yes, they're different from the trifocals, naturally, but it seems that all of what I couldn't tolerate in previous pairs is GONE. Image swim is almost eliminated. Walking is no problem (well....it was with the other PAL's). No queasiness. So far I'm encouraged. I think I can wear these. Thank you for your help, thank you all for the lenses!!!
Steve"