I really dislike

[gness]

wearing glasses but I can't see a thing near or far without them. I've had varifocals for years with no problem.
Booking my eye test today I was asked if I would like to take part in a trial for some contact lenses and was assured that these are fine for people who need varifocals. One eye for reading and one eye for distance.
Does anyone here have varifocal contacts?

[DTCwordfan]

Nope just reading glasses +2 - can see a golf ball out there at 300 yards plus if I can stiff one that far.

[Baldric]

Great attitude, you've passed!
she's on her way!

[DTCwordfan]

only thing I would say on contacts is if you are spending lots of time in very dusty environments, they can be uncomfortable if particles get behind them.....

[gness]

DT. I can't even see a golf course at 300 yards...which is how I came to be driving through one on my last visit down south.

[ubasses]

I had the 'one a day' contacts, different vision for each eye, and agree with Brinjal about the driving. Gave them up after a couple of scares in the car. Could not adjust when flicking vision from road ahead to mirrors.

[tonyav]

300yds bloody show off lol.

[boxtops]

Yes gness, my sister's had them for years, she wears specs most of the time but lenses for activities like swimming. She gets on fine with them.

[gness]

Yay! Thanks Baldric. x

DT. Are you commenting on my housekeeping skills......or lack of?

[gness]

Specs for driving and contacts at other times would be fine. Just would love to ditch them now and again and when I go somewhere special.

[Zeuhl]

'varifocal' contact lenses have multiples of both prescriptions in each lens; the brain sorts out which information to use for close or distance viewing.

[DTCwordfan]

was down to 5, tony.....gone up a bit as I haven't played much.

No, gness, but given sheds and gardening!

Have you thought about Lasik....(basically getting it done by the best that you can afford being the advice)?

[boxtops]

That's how my sister describes them, Zeuhl they're not one eye for each distance, but 360 degree prescription

[Zeuhl]

<lenses for activities like swimming>

need to be careful there.

Bugs in water which would normally be washed away can get trapped against between the lens and the eyeball and cause serious damage to the eye.

[gness]

That is what I initially thought Zeuhl. Won't hurt to give my brain some exercise I guess.

[tonyav]

Down to 5 DT, very good.

[boxtops]

I could be wrong there, Zeuhl, about the swimming

[gness]

I would DT but I know......just know it would go wrong, seriously.

[DTCwordfan]

now why would it do that as, between North American and over here they have done hundreds of thousands and thousands of folk.....

[gness]

And C Sections and mole removals and hysterectomies ....all fine til they get to yours truly. :-)
DT. I once had treatment done using someone else's notes! Luckily minor.

[Bambiagain]

I'm interested to read that any optician would think this is a good idea. I have one long sighted eye and one short sighted eye. I have trouble getting them to focus together, and although I can read with one eye without the aid of glasses, and don't wear glasses just to walk around, I need them to use the computer as I can't see it without, and I can't drive at night without. Opticians have tried to get me to have one contact lens, for the short sighted eye, but this would mean reading glasses as well as spares in case there was a problem with the lens and would work out costing more than two pairs of glasses. But from what the opticians tell me, they think it is bad to have eyes that see differently, which is why it surprises me that they would offer this as an option.