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[granddi]

I have also wear Dailies Monovision.

Dailies: yes you could wear more than one day but that means case and solutions. Wearing only one lens is worth it to me to wear and toss.

Monovision: A lot has been posted pro and con about this vision technique. My pearls: Contact lenses(monovision or bifocal lenses) for reading are not microscopes nor do they give you your 20 year old vision back.

For me, my monovision provides me comfortable and satisfactory near vision for most of my needs. If you want to thread a needle or see itty bitty fine print just pop on a reader.

Driving with monovison: It does not bother me in the daytime but at night, if I am the driver I remove the lens. 

Since I only wear the one lens, my sun glasses are non Rx which is much less than the cost of prescription sun.

Most time companies offer generous rebates on lenses.

[deeva]

I wear Acuvue Daily Moist. I only wear one lens for distance. I like them, but they are more expensive. I never wear the same lens more than one day, not worth the potential damage to my eye.

For reading or threading a needle, my near is better without glasses or contacts.

[ECBG]

@tends2dogs I have tried the dailies, but stayed with my regular mono lense.  The one was less expensive and fit me better.  I am alergic to the protein my eye gives off, but use Clear Care with extra moisture, no problem.

Night visions can easily be fixed with the night vision glasses on amazon.  I got mine for less than $30.00.  Now night driving is no different than day.

I turn left to go on a down slope where tractor trailors would pull up to turn.  I made that turn looking right into their big double headlights!  Now, I see everything!

[KatieB]

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@tends2dogs wrote:

Do you like them?  Better than monthly?  I am on a trial basis right now and so far, I like them.  I go back Friday for a recheck and perhaps RX tweaking.  I am trying monovision and it is great not grabbing for readers.  I wore contacts over 15 years ago, but gave them up because I had trouble getting them out and my eyes weren't that bad.

My observations so far:

At night, while driving or riding in the car, other car lights halo and spider out.  Can this be avoided in anyway?  If I had to drive a long distance, I would remove the close up vision contact.

Also, do you ever wear the contact more than one day?  

TIA  (yes, I will ask the doctor )

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@tends2dogs   I wore daily contacts every single day for about 50 years - since the  days of hard contact lens up thru the current soft lens.  I never had any problem with them.  

I would never dream of having contacts in my eyes for more than one day or sleep in them.  Never would I use those types of contacts.  It's too easy to get infections that you are not aware of which can cause blindness.  

[eadu4]

I've worn contacts for over 40 years.   Never had a problem.  I just got a new prescription and was told to have my eyes checked for cataracts.  I have had a touch of the "halo" thing when looking at lights at night.  Mine are the 30 day ones.  I had them back in the day when you had to heat them to sterilize them lol.  Never had any issues or infections. I still need reading glasses but otherwise I'm fine.  I know there are some people who just can't wear them.  My glasses are so heavy and thick even with the "thinner" lenses that they now have so contacts have been my blessing.  I hate my glasses.  My prescription fits only a few frames and my small face makes it hard to find anything that fits.  By the way I have always taken mine out at night and never slept in them.  I just keep my glasses by the bed and put my contacts in first thing. I also have worn my 30 day ones longer than 30 days lol.   I swim with them and shower with them without a problem. I've never gone blind from wearing mine more than one day.  Again no issues, infections or problems in 40 years.   I've worn all different brands.  Right now I have the AccuVue because my prescription is so high.  By the way the eye doctors I've had told me the pin point/halo light issues are signs of cataracts not the lenses.   Good luck!!   

[Lipstickdiva]

I loved, loved, loved my daily contacts.  I am in 2 week disposables and a couple of years ago I was using the daily ones.

The only reason I stopped was due to cost.  I have to have toric lenses and the cost of toric dailies was almost 5 times the cost of toric 2 week disposables.  I couldn't justify that cost because there really isn't anything wrong with my 2 week lenses. 

I tried monovision lenses and couldn't get used to them so I gave up.  Readers are a pain but a necessary evil.

One of the major conveniences of having daily lenses is not having to bother with a case and solutions.  If you wear them more than 1 day, you have to bother with that so what is the point?  I could wear my 2 week lenses longer than 2 weeks too but if that's what I wanted to do, I wouldn't get the 2 week lenses.

[deja vu]

I've only worn daily contacts.. so I cannot compare to others. I only wear them for one day, never slept in them.

I've had the same experience that @deb5555 did though. I  have dry eyes, and sometimes not every time they do stick like suction cups. I've also had 3 or 4 times in my right eye, where it felt like it came out or half of it came out and it would make that eye red and goop'd up in the mornings until it all dissolved. 

I wear my glasses much more often than the contacts though, because they are so expensive !