Hayde,
Your welcome, although I haven't done much more than ask questions and write "out loud" (it helps me to see/hear more clearly).
Squinting? Only at near? Somehow, folks manage that way. Some possible solutions that
might help...a Fresnel prism at near only, SVNO lenses, SVDO in non-dominant eye, or contact lenses. OTOH, except for CLs, trying to correct the VI at near might make it worse. No kidding. Use a trial prism lens to be sure.
Regardless, this person is presently reading monocularly, and to make that work with a PAL, we need to know where the eye is positioned at near due to the head turn, and maybe due to lack of convergence. The best way to do this is probably with the "Mirror Method". Measure with the habitual eyeglasses in situ, especially if the dominant eye is the high minus lens.
http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...g-progressives
Once you've established the near IPD, find a lens that can provide that value (I think Seiko is the only PAL presently that can take a user selected inset), and then consider a SVDO lens for the fellow eye, as needed.
Tmorse,
I charge $190 for a custom segmented slab. I've never slabbed a PAL. The strongest slab I've ordered was 6 PD.
Hope this helps,
Robert Martellaro
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