Community Chat

[Charming1]

I went to the eye doctor yesterday and asked about multi-focal lenses and he suggested trying mono-vision. He said there's about 30% success with multi-focal lenses.

He gave me a trial pair yesterday and I have to go back for a follow up next week. He said we may have to tweak them.

I'm actually surprised at how well I can read without readers now, however, not sure I like how I'm seeing for distance. This is only the second day but yesterday driving home it seemed difficult to read street signs without getting closer to them than I normally would.

Even signs in the mall where the doctor is were a bit fuzzy from a distance.

I had a post on multi-focal lenses, now gone, and think some of you said you did the mono-vision, just wondering about your experience.

[faeriemoon]

I know a couple of people who have done the monovision thing (with contacts, not Lasix.) One raves about it, the other says her vision is acceptable but not all that sharp.

[pattypeep]

I'm 69 and wore mono vision for many years until about seven or eight years ago. Ultimately, I needed both eyes to do everything, so I now wear bifocal contacts and love them.

[Pickwickpapers]

Have used mono vision contacts for years with good results but it did take several weeks to adjust or train myself to see.......so take your time......

[lulu2]

I wore mono vision lenses for years. I started with one but as as I aged and my eyes worsened, I wore different strengths in each eye. I did this for about 10 years, then had Lasik mono vision correction.

[Luv2Decorate]

I have monovision. Right eye is far sighted, left is near sighted. I have contacts but they bother me. Ugh, when I put them in, I can't wait to take them out, then it's awful getting them out. It's so odd, when I do the eye test I see great with both eyes, but when I do the eye test with only one eye, I don't do so well. My doc said that my brain has gotten used to adjusting my vision. Ha!

[adelle38]

I wear one lens only for distance. I've been doing it for 10 years and it works well, but if I drive at night, I always use my glasses or put in the second lens since both eyes are the same. I've never needed reading glasses but in the past year, I have been having trouble reading small print and I use a pair of drugstore reading glasses with a 1x magnification. I went to monovision because when I was teaching I couldn't read with my glasses on and bifocals made me dizzy.

[VanSleepy]

I wear one contact and love it. I hated having to put on reading glasses for everything, especially one second here and there. I do think my distance could be clearer, but I just got used to it because it was worth not needing reading glasses. The only problem is night driving. I put in my other contact or glasses for that.

[ahoymate]

So much better than glasses!!! Love!!!! Lots of people have a mono vision contact. President Reagan for one.

[Charming1]

I found this thread so I thought I'd provide an update.  I did go with mono-vision contacts and after a tweak or two, they've been working out great!