r/eyestrain

I just got progressive eye glasses for the first time. Light prescription for far (+1.25/+0.75) and +2.25/+2.25 for the reader part.

The optometrist suggested the most expensive progressive lenses (Varilux XR Design - listed with a retail cost of $630 just for the lenses) as these were described as having a significantly wider mid section than traditional progressive lenses.

After receiving the glasses, the far vision works great, as does the reading when looking down at my phone, but sitting in front of a computer it feels like the focus is incredibly narrow. I have a small computer monitor (19 inches diameter) and when I focus on text, only the 3-4 words to the immediate left or right of what I am looking at is in focus. 2 inches to the left or right is blurry. I have to move my head side-to-side to read across this text (which measures 7 inches across on my monitor). Also, when moving my head left/right there is a distortion effect where the monitor seems to 'bend down' to the left when I move my head right and vice versa.

Is this normal / expected?

I understand that up and down will be blurry, as the lens transitions to far vision at the top, and reader towards the bottom, but I am disappointed in how narrow the side to side vision is for the mid / intermediate section.

For years ive been struggling with displays. The problem seem to kinda come and go through. At least be worse in periods. I can't quite relate to a lot of the symptoms users here mention either.

For me, when using most screens (oleds, when the problem occurs) makes me get a heavy brain fog quite fast. Makes me feel slow and kinda dumb. Hard to find words and the like. It also kinda feels like a pressure in the skull.

Right now im using a Nxtpaper, which works fine. I have tried oleds like the honor magic 8 pro without success. For a long while the pixel 8 worked though. Like two years. Then it started to make me feel the foginess. Really have no idea what makes something work or not.

Anyone in the same position?