Hooray for Monovision!!!!!Jul 18 '00 Write an essay on this topic.I have been wearing hard contact lenses (the old hard kind and now gas permeables) for about 35 years and would never give them up (unless I was forced for medical reasons). I am now 57 years old. When I hit 42 or so, I began to need longer arms, ha ha ha. This means that my near vision was going, which is typical as one hits 40. I bought reading glasses at the drugstore, which is an okay thing to do, according to my eye doctor. They won't hurt one's vision and they are extremely cheap. However, I got really annoyed that I had to wash and care for contact lenses as well as keep track of reading glasses. This didn't seem fair at all, and I was always sitting on my glasses or misplacing them. However, the cost of bifocal contacts was very prohibitive, and they had an unreliable reputation. I understood, from discussing this with my doctor, that they didn't work sometimes, that one's eye might not shaped right for them, etc. My eye doctor suggested "monovision." When she explained that this meant one eye with a prescription for distance and one with a prescription for reading, I thought it was a joke! Once I researched a bit into the concept, I thought, "Why not?" It was certainly worth a try. It does take a couple of weeks for one to get accustomed to these. For a few weeks, there's a small blurry area in the distance as well as on one's newspaper, when the opposite eye is attempting to focus. After a few weeks, the amazing and astonishing brain adjusts quite well and one can throw away their reading glasses! (Or one can donate them to Goodwill, which is a better and more politically correct choice.) I was glad and very grateful that I tried this, and I've been wearing monovision lenses successfully for about 12 years. Night driving is a bit tricky. Sometimes people get glasses prescribed just for this purpose. I have adjusted okay. One's depth perception is a bit affected, of course, and you must especially be on alert (and not talking on the dreaded cell phone!!!). I have passed the DMV vision test (they were familiar with monovision), and have had absolutely no problems with my lenses. I can read print in the phone book or on a map, and that's about as small as I need to get! I can also see road signs, movies, or whatever I need to see in the distance. Apparently soft contact wearers don't do as well with monovision, because soft lenses don't have the same clarity as hard lenses do. A soft lens wearer can change to gas permeables; it's a bit difficult to get used to them, with eyes watering and all, but well worth it in the end! It only takes a few weeks. Once you accomplish this, you can try monovision! Nothing to lose but those dumb reading glasses! This is an enthusiastic recommendation for monovision!  |
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