I've been nearsighted all my life, in my late 40's started to need glasses for reading. I'm in the minority but I tried progressive lenses and HATED them. Could not get used to the lack of clear peripheral vision, not being able to look down going downstairs. But the final straw was the fact that shapes were distorted at hand-work distance: round plates looked oval when washing dishes, quilt squares looked like parallelograms. That was it; I took the progressives back and got two pairs of glasses, swap as needed and I am much happier.