What kind of contacts do you use?

[jjarman]

I am blind as a bat without them. I have just some really plain ones now, Bausch and Lomb. Cheap at Walmart. But at age 47 my eyes are needing more. I have gotten to where I need reading glasses also for some things. I have heard of the contacts that are kinda like bifocals. Anyone use these? How do you like them? I really hate having to use the reading glasses too but I love my contacts and will fight wearing glasses full time to the bitter end.

 

[dis-happy]

You need to talk to a good optermerist. Mine is wonderful, maybe because she's my age and understands.

She peronally wears the bifocal contacts and say they work great for her but not for everybody.

For me, she has my nearsighted eyes corrected differently. On the left it is still a little nearsighted, the right one is normal 20/20. It's great, I can still read fine print if I need to (my left eye takes over), but can as needed for distance (right eye takes over). Somehow eyes adjust to this. The only time it's difficult is late at night, it can be a little hard to focus when driving on dark highways for a long time.

 

[jjarman]

I do have a great doctor. She and I have known each other since 1st grade and she is wonderful. I don't want the kind where you have distance vision in one eye and near vision in the other. I just don't think I can do that. There are contacts that can do both. I am trying to use up the rest of the ones I have before I go back.

 

[RitaZ.]

I do have a great doctor. She and I have known each other since 1st grade and she is wonderful. I don't want the kind where you have distance vision in one eye and near vision in the other. I just don't think I can do that. There are contacts that can do both. I am trying to use up the rest of the ones I have before I go back.

That's what I use and they are great. It took me a few days to get used to them.

 

[bballmom56]

I have the monovision also (one lens for distance, one for reading). I really do like them and they solve both problems. I am extremely nearsighted. I asked my optometrist about the multi focal and bifocal lenses. He said his clients have much more success with the monovision lenses than either of the other types. It does take some getting used to, but it can be done. As someone else said, it makes night driving a little trickier, but I just concentrate a little more

 

[endy]

I have bi focal contacts & love them.
I also was trying to avoid reading glasses but age caught up to me.

 

[golfgal]

I do have a great doctor. She and I have known each other since 1st grade and she is wonderful. I don't want the kind where you have distance vision in one eye and near vision in the other. I just don't think I can do that. There are contacts that can do both. I am trying to use up the rest of the ones I have before I go back.

I have a friend that just went to these contacts and was having a lot of problems with them until the eye dr told him he had them in the wrong eyes . He really likes them now .

I wear the Acuvue Oasis contacts--nothing fancy but my eyes aren't all that bad either.

 

[snykymom]

If you have an astigmatism (I do), you can't use the bifocal or multifocal contact lenses; they don't correct for the astigmatism.

I do the monovision as well, and I love them. It's so much better than with my progressive eyeglasses - with them, I have to move my neck around so much to see at different focal lengths that I end up with a crick in my neck and a headache!

It only took about a week to get used to the monovision, which was just as long as it took to get used to the progressives!

 

[VickiVM]

If you have an astigmatism (I do), you can't use the bifocal or multifocal contact lenses; they don't correct for the astigmatism.

I do the monovision as well, and I love them. It's so much better than with my progressive eyeglasses - with them, I have to move my neck around so much to see at different focal lengths that I end up with a crick in my neck and a headache!

It only took about a week to get used to the monovision, which was just as long as it took to get used to the progressives!

I also have astigmatism. Tried monovision and couldn't adjust to them. My dr suggested that I lessen the strength of my contacts slightly (for nearsightedness) and instead wear glasses for distance - like driving or at the movie theatre or watching tv. This way I still have a level of clarity for reading that I can work with and not have to wear readers.