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?

[chattykathy]

I've had monvision lenses for years and love them! No reading glasses for me! It can take a bit of working out - the optician will work out which is your dominant eye and put the 'long distance' lens in that one and work out the formula for the other eye. My first attempt was a bit weird but the optician modified the prescription and it's been perfect ever since. Go for it if you fancy contact lenses.

[gness]

Thank you for your info Chatty. Had my appointment today. She had a new type of lens which would suit as my eyes are fine for contacts. Yay!! I gave them a try...a walk around town for a while. Reading not too bad, distance awful but in between was fantastic. Loved not wearing the specs so thought if we could get the prescription right it would be all go!!!
However, she has now diagnosed a potentially serious eye problem which is to be investigated. Bums!!!! She is going to order me some other contacts to try but not until after the tests which will be November.
I loved walking around not wearing the glasses even if the young guy on the coffee stall did think I was either mad or trying to get off with him with the wide eyed stare.
Mind you he did have a gorgeous voice and I am a sucker for voices.
Fingers crossed please.......I loved the contacts.

[boxtops]

Fingers duly crossed, gness.....

How long have you worn specs? I've worn them since I was 6. The only time I tried contact lenses, I felt as if Ih ad no clothes on....

[shoota]

What happens when you wink?
;-) xx

[rsvp]

I have a friend who uses them all the time - swears by them - must admit I couldn't quite get my head around the concept but she wouldn't use anything else - says they have transformed her life.

[gness]

Hi Boxy....had perfect eyesight til HRT in my mid thirties. Don't know if that had anything to do with it but my eyesight deteriorated rapidly then.
I know what you mean about feeling naked. It was really strange walking about with no specs. Have a button nose, small lips, uncle Mike's chin but nice eyes so would like one last chance to flash them about before popping my clogs. Vanity I guess.....and I would like to stop hunting for the bloody things.

[gness]

Shoota.........if I winked at you???????

[shoota]

WHEN you wink at me.........

[gness]

Then you know.......xx


I hunt for my specs....not my eyes.

[shoota]

I like girls in glasses and its not true you know......

[gness]

In that case I will hang on to the glasses Shoota......and use the contacts to find them. Am practising my winking.....xx

[hc4361]

With your glasses on, find a distant object such as a tree top or chimney to focus on.

Form a triangle by putting your two thumb tips together and your two first fingers together.

Raise your arms and look at the object through the triangle with both eyes.

Then look with one eye, then the other.

You will see something different out of both eyes, the eye that sees the object properly in the triangle is the dominant eye.

This demonstrates that you don't use both eyes for everything all the time.

[DTCwordfan]

so do I shoota............

[Hopkirk]

I first tried contacts in the 70s, and the optician popped a hard lens in one eye.

I was really struggling to cope, and he popped the other in.

I fainted.

[shoota]

You're supposed to say 'what's not true?'



That boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses......

[gness]

Just tried that hc. Dominant eye is the one with no problem so that may be a good thing.

Hi DT. Then I shall wear my specs when I take you to lunch on my next down south trip.

[gness]

Shoota...it's you. I didn't need to ask. xx

Fainted Hopkirk!!??

[Hopkirk]

Yes, somehow he took them out before I came round.

(Mind you, taking hard lenses out was easier than soft ones)

He told me I had fainted, said it won't happen again and put them back in.

[uniatz]

I found taking homeopathic Ruta grav 6c helped with the eye muscle strain.



I found it here http://www.homeopathshop.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=68&products_id=2112