Anyone use 1 contact lense for reading?

[DonM]

I just had my eyes checked by my Opthamologist. She said that people with good distance vision can use 1 contact lense for reading. The contact stays on your eye all the time, even if you are not reading.

Initially this seems odd to me- something akin to those lizards that can look forward and backward at the same time.

Does anyone have any first eye experience with this?

thanks

don

 

[Egret1986]

I wore contacts for many years with different prescriptions for each eye.

I just had my eyes checked by my Opthamologist. She said that people with good distance vision can use 1 contact lense for reading. The contact stays on your eye all the time, even if you are not reading.

Initially this seems odd to me- something akin to those lizards that can look forward and backward at the same time.

Does anyone have any first eye experience with this?

thanks

don

I finally decided to get laser surgery on one eye only. The eye that I had the laser surgery on is for distance. My other eye is for reading. It all evens out and I've had no problems. If they had performed laser on both eyes, I would have required reading glasses and I didn't want that.

 

[lynne]

Mono-Vision

One eye is corrected for distance and one for reading. Not everyone's brain can make the necessary corrections. The one thing you have to remember is to always keep both eyes open to focus. I have had mono-vision for 20+ years, first contacts, then laser correction surgery. It was wonderful, then I reached that reading glass age. My laser correction became 20/20 in both eyes so I lost my reading eye and resorted to glasses again. I now have a single contact for reading and it is wonderful. I almost cannot wait until I need cataract surgery down the road to get my lenses permanently corrected for mono without the contact.

 

[K&PFitz]

I wear two contacts, but my right is for distance and the left for reading. I am extremely nearsighted, but for some reason this really works. I used to have two lenses for distance, but had to wear increasing strong reading glasses. Now I don't need reading glasses at all. It's amazing how the brain adapts.

My wife had lasic, and also has one eye for distance and one for reading, though without any lenses.

I should say that my eye doctor had to order 5 or 6 pairs of lenses until we got it right. One time, the lenses were so off that I drove about two blocks, and turned around and went back for the previous pair.

 

[eal]

I also have two different contacts, the right is for reading and the left is for distance

 

[bogey21]

I had cataract surgery on one eye. The result is one eye focused for distance , one for reading. It took my brain about 15 minutes to adjust to it.

George

 

[laurac260]

It works for some, as you have seen here. For some of us it does not. Fortunately, you can easily test it out without too much trouble (unlike lasik).

For me, I gave it a try on the advice of the eye doc. I drove home with the contacts (one near, one far) in each eye ( I don't have 20/20 in either eye, but it's basically the same as what you would be doing). I got about 5 miles down the road and as I was sitting in the left hand turn lane to get on the freeway I decided I was much too dizzy to be driving 65 mph! They were disposable contacts, so i did just that. I promptly plucked them out of each eye, tossed them out the window, and put on my old standby, glasses.

Short version? I'm one of "those people", the ones this doesn't work for!

 

[Passepartout]

There was a thread here some time ago about Lasik monovision. It ain't for everybody. I had Lasik about 10 years ago. The doc gave me monovision- even though I specifically asked for the best distance vision he was capable of. I was aware I would need reading glasses. Now, I can pass a drivers license eye test without glasses, but because I want better overall vision- not a compromise- I wear bifocals. Almost no 'script on the distance part of one lens, very little 'script on the reading portion of the other. The only advantage: my glasses are much thinner than the ones I wore pre-Lasik- I wore real Coke-bottle bottoms before.

Anyway, some can adjust, some can't.

Jim

 

[iloveflorida]

I have multifocal contacts. One is for reading and one is for distance. When my vision was better, I would often wear just the contact for reading, and it worked very well.

 

[vacationcrazy]

I have had cataract surgery in both eyes done about 2 years apart. I have one eye for distance and one for close. It works well for me, but before I had the surgery, I wore contact lenses. One was for distance and one for close. I had to switch which eye was for distance and which was for close vision as it made me very off balance when they were switched. Now I do not have any problems that I found out which eye was the dominant eye. It is nice not to have to wear glasses or contacts any more