Had a client who purchased new progs at a trendy new place in British Columbia called Bailey Nelson. If you haven't heard of them you should google them up. They mailed them out to her when they were ready since she lives here which is halfway across the country. Her rx was a +1od +2os distance with a 225 add. The progs were private label so I couldn't tell what design they were using. The segs were bang on (assuming a 4 drop. Classic P3 fit at 23). The powers and pd were perfect but her vision through them was bad. Peripheral blur. No discernible intermediate and a reading area she called "pin size". She ended up picking a new frame from us that was the same shape and I fit her at virtually the same height. I used a Nikon Digilife. I was a little nervous when she came to pick them up today. The ones she got from BN were her first progressive and maybe her expectations of how progressives worked were a little high. When she put the new ones on the difference was night and day. Everything was perfect and manageable. After she left I breathed a huge sigh of relief but I can't stop thinking about why those other progressives were so bad. Their website says they use the same labs that supply lenses to offices across Canada. I can't remember someone having such a bad experience with a prog when all the measurements, powers etc... were so good. I'm scratching my head here.
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