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Sitting here in my new multifocal contact lens...need some input

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marcia_jay - 03 Oct 2006 21:20 GMT
OK. I just got my new contacts--the right eye is the same as before--20 20
for far vision. (I now have presbyopia and this is my first attempt at
correction for that).

The left eye is the multi focal lens.  I just got home from the eyedoctor.
Previously I had a slight monovision, with close reading correction in the
left eye.  but as presbyopia advanced, I could no longer read with them.

OK,  so how long should it take to adjust.  I am finding that the "reading
eye" is really not crisp enough to do my work, which is editing.

So my question is, is this just a matter of adjusting, or does it mean this
is not the solution?  He sent me home to try them out for a few days.

Is that the way it works--a brief time of adjustment?  Or should they have
been perfect from the minute he put them in?

Also, my problem was that before, i was squinting a lot in the right eye, I
think this is not going to solve that. I thought  he was going to scale back
the far vision in my right eye so I would stop squinting so much.

Thoughts?

Bottom line is, I am still squinting in my right eye, and can't read crisply
in my left eye. Will I adjust, or not so much?
marcia_jay - 04 Oct 2006 00:19 GMT
And another thing I notice is that with the bifocal I can see near only.  Far
is blurry--for example, I was  just sitting reading on the sofa with my legs
stretched out, and if I cover my far distance eye, I can't see my feet
clearly--I am only 5 feet one, and I can't see my feet stretched before me.

Isn't a bifocal contact supposed to give you near, middle and far?  If not,
what would be the difference between this and a monovision regular lens?
(aside from 50 bucks).

Thanks for any help...
Mike Ruskai - 15 Oct 2006 10:59 GMT
>OK. I just got my new contacts--the right eye is the same as before--20 20
>for far vision. (I now have presbyopia and this is my first attempt at
>correction for that).
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>Bottom line is, I am still squinting in my right eye, and can't read crisply
>in my left eye. Will I adjust, or not so much?

I have no experience whatsoever with multi-focal contacts (presbyopia
is still at least a decade away for me), but after seeing how they're
supposed to work, it's obvious that it's something you need to get
used to.

There is simply no way for it to work instantly.  Your brain needs
some training on which part of the field of view to focus on for a
given distance.

So, give it a week or so (I can't imagine it taking less time), or
just bite the bullet and get a pair of reading glasses, so you don't
have to play tricks with your visual cortex.
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The Real Bev - 17 Oct 2006 04:22 GMT
>>OK. I just got my new contacts--the right eye is the same as before--20 20
>>for far vision. (I now have presbyopia and this is my first attempt at
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> some training on which part of the field of view to focus on for a
> given distance.

I don't understand this.  I never knew what kind the optician gave me,
but the ones that worked were perfect within 10 minutes or so.  Perfect
vision both near and far -- for one second out of 60 :-(

> So, give it a week or so (I can't imagine it taking less time), or
> just bite the bullet and get a pair of reading glasses, so you don't
> have to play tricks with your visual cortex.

I tested a lot because I really wanted to wear them -- shift focus from
the car across the street to the leaf I held up in front of my eyes a
foot away (focus change only -- if I shifted my gaze the lenses slid out
of the way and everything went belly-up) and it was exactly like having
real eyes.  I was bitterly disappointed when he couldn't get them to fit
after 8 tries.

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