I am looking for recommendations for web sites where I can do some
general reading on vision, correction, and contacts.

I am 61. I started using reading glasses in my 40s and am now up to
about 2.50-3.00.

Up until recently, my distant vision was excellent. At my last eye
exam, I was told that I was not about 20/40 (I think) at distance and
marginal for passing the eye exam at the DMV. She put some glasses on
and I was amazed at how much clearer things were. I guess it
deteriorated so gradually that I didn't realize it.

Anyway, she gave me a prescription and I went to a local optician. We
have been talking about contacts.

We first tried monovision. I didn't get the exact numbers, but he put
the near correction in the left eye and the distance correction in the
right. This was great for reading, terrible for driving. We tried a
couple of different corrections and also reversing the eyes.

I don't think monovision is going to work for me -- unless I didn't
give it long enough to work. The close up vision was great -- no
reading glasses, but distance vision was much worse. Not only was
everything a lot blurrier, but I had a sense that there was something
in my field of vision that I couldn't quite see but was affecting the
vision. I'm guessing that was the other lens.

We then tried a couple of types of bifocal contacts. With these, the
sense of something in the way was gone, but overall, they were worse
than the monovision. Close was only marginally better than my naked
eyes and distance was slightly worse.

We are now trying only distance correction. This seems to help
intermediate vision (6-30 feet) somewhat, but I'm not sure yet if long
distance (100 feet+) is better or slightly worse.

The good news is that my eyes seem to tolerate the contacts well.

Thanks for listening...