Any keyboard players here wearing progressive lenses? Is it something I can get used to over time?
 
It's only been a couple hours since I picked up these new glasses, and I feel seasick. My keyboard looks like it's warped and has waves in it when I move my head. Played a video game on my tablet and everything was warped, rectangles looking like parallelograms and circles like ovals. I've got that nauseous feeling you get from reading in the car.
 
Should I just be patient, or should I get another pair of glasses before my eyes go all googley?

I'm certainly no expert (especially since I still have 20/10 eyesight in my 50's), but it sounds to me like they didn't get the areas correct for YOUR eyes.  Maybe the main area needs to be a bit taller so you don't start to see into the next region?

I've been in the optical business for 20 years. You'll get used to it bit. The key is not to switch back and forth from your old glasses to your new ones. You have to wear them on a constant basis in order for your brain to get acclimated to the new lenses. That said, it took me a month or so to get used to my progressive lenses. So, just be patient with it. Take a bucket with you everywhere. Kidding....

I've had three sets of "general purpose" varifocals. The first two caused me no problems at all, but the current pair are pretty weird.

It's the usual stuff, parallel lines that aren't, circles not round, warped straight lines. Stepping from a plain floor covering on to tiles is like being drunk unless I check my focus first. Stais need some care, and sometimes I don't see dips or rises in the ground at all.

I also have an "office" set which cover reading distance out to around 15 feet. They're pretty useful because they allow me to focus on e.g. a guitar tuner or a synth panel and still have the distance to use the computer screen. They're fine for DAWs but utterly useless for doing Photoshop/Lightroom work on photographs because, again, straight lines aren't etc.

What helps a great deal is if instead of turning just my eyes to one side I turn my head so the relevant varifocal area for the distance is always in the right place. Makes using a screen three or four feet away very tiring though, because I have to keep moving my head around as I only get a small area that's actually in focus.

So I have a fixed focal length set as well, which I use for quite a lot of computer-related stuff.

Varifocal/progressive lenses are very useful indeed, without them I could focus on the road but not the speedometer or vice-versa, with them both are clear because they fall on dofferent focal zones. They're mot the answer to everything though.

There's always these...

Or these.

Since I started wearing progressives I can't have it any other way. I love em. Did take some getting used to. But not more than a day or so. Hang in there, you'll acclimate.

Thanks for the encouragement, everyone. I'll give it at least through the weekend before I panic.
 
I spent an hour at the piano to see if there'd be a problem, but it's hard to tell if it slows me down or decreases my accuracy.
 
I generally play with my eyes closed, anyway. (Much to the consternation of my band's lead singer, who complains I often don't see her giving me a frantic "your solo's over, already!" signal.)

bitflipper
I generally play with my eyes closed, anyway. (Much to the consternation of my band's lead singer, who complains I often don't see her giving me a frantic "your solo's over, already!" signal.)

All the more reason to keep 'em closed!  LOL!  

The only issue I have is when I use the computer. Looking through the bottom of the lenses,tilting my head back gave me a stiff neck. So I have a fixed pair for the computer.

My latest pair of progressives have a wider zone for closeup. More expensive of course buy I find it better.

In my experience there are inevitable issues with the progressive glasses.
One should have different ones for different purposes - paradox :o/
Now, when it's berry-picking time, one issue is accute:
Hiking in the woods you need to carefully look where you put your feet. The lowest part
of the lenses is for reading, so it won't do. You need to walk pressing your chin against your
chest in order to be able to point the 4-6 feet focus area to where you step. Impossible. Also, the path going up and down every yard makes it even harder. When you kneel down to pick berries, it's a little better.
Driving a car and some tasks at job are the only these progressives are fine for.
 
I still (had them for ten years) can't draw with these progressive glasses on. As Bit described, the drawing gets so skewed it's intolerable. And I have not gotten used to (in many cases) having to move my head instead of my eyes. So, in the woods and gardening, I use cheap +1 or +1.5 glasses, and when drawing, using PC and reading, cheap +2/+2.5 glasses. I have about a dozen of them. For the price of one good pair of progressive glasses you get ten pairs of the cheap, fixed ones. If you get ones with poor lenses, you can afford throwing them away. Of course, you need to have similar sight in both eyes to use the grocery store cheapos.
My wife has used progressives for 40 years, and she still gets seasick/dizzy walking in the woods. And she does have two customized pairs of glasses. She'd need a third pair for the woods.