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You can do what I do and just wear them around the house 95% of the time. I actually tend to prefer wearing them to my distance glasses, as long as I'm in my house (and I work from home, so I'm mostly in my house).

Some things in the distance are a little fuzzy but I just got used to not trying to focus on everything in the house.

But also if I'm not wearing them at my computer I really notice and it's a little difficult to work without them. I sometimes forget to bring them to a Starbucks and I can still work while wearing my normal glasses, but it's not as easy.

That being said, your Optometrist might not recommend this behavior. I haven't noticed any downsides to doing this though, and I've been doing it this way for like 6+ years now.


> That being said, your Optometrist might not recommend this behavior.

Indeed, my ophthalmologist recommended against it explicitly as, according to him, that would contribute to making the situation worse and I'd need new glasses sooner. So I try not to wear them as much as I can. It does feel weird to get that advice from an ophthalmologist.

I think this might be the answer.

I think the issue is that I just do so much at my desk. I work. I eat etc. So it's like, when I'm eating it doesn't occur to me to wear them. but I just need to remember that when I'm at my desk, I wear them. Though wearing them all the time in the house might be the answer.

If you go this route, I've found it easier to walk around the house if I look at my upraised hand and navigate peripherally- hand is in focus, and the rest is expectedly not, rather than everything in front of me being blurry.

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