Multi focal contact lenses - anyone tried them?
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I'm trialing these, has any PH'er tried them please?
I've worn soft contact lens for about 10years now to great success and used reading glasses over the top for close work.
These multi focal lens, in theory, should do away with the reading glasses, a sort of varifocal lens, but I'm having difficulty adjusting.
My distance is not as clear as my single lens, middle sight is brilliant, close is slightly better than without my reading glasses on.
Is it a compromise, or is this something that my eyes or brain will adjust to in a day or two?
(these are the second brand I'm trialing, the first make were right out)
Thank you.
I've worn soft contact lens for about 10years now to great success and used reading glasses over the top for close work.
These multi focal lens, in theory, should do away with the reading glasses, a sort of varifocal lens, but I'm having difficulty adjusting.
My distance is not as clear as my single lens, middle sight is brilliant, close is slightly better than without my reading glasses on.
Is it a compromise, or is this something that my eyes or brain will adjust to in a day or two?
(these are the second brand I'm trialing, the first make were right out)
Thank you.
NDA said:
My optician suggested wearing a distance contact lens in my dominant eye - and nothing in the other. The brain then sorts it out.
In my case it works - doesn't work for everyone apparently. So I can now see at a distance and read without reading glasses.
Ive heard of this, so maybe it is a case of the brain and they eyes sorting it out. I'll try them for another day or so. In my case it works - doesn't work for everyone apparently. So I can now see at a distance and read without reading glasses.
Yep. I did a lot of faffing around earlier this year because I couldn't read with my contact lens prescription so we decided to change it. We tried all kinds of options - one ordinary lens for reading and one ordinary for distance, one multifocal for reading and one multifocal for distance, one multifocal for reading and one ordinary for distance.
It took a few weeks to get the balance right, but I went with the last option in the end - multifocal for reading, ordinary for distance. They work really well, and they don't feel any different to ordinary lenses. My optician reckoned it takes about 10 days for your brain to get used to what your eyes are telling it.
My optician was saying that multifocals aren't as good for distance - that was certainly what I found. You get used to seeing fuzzy distance, but I found it very uncomfortable even when I was used to it. With my combination of one multi/one not, I get the best of both worlds. I can read *and* my distance vision is okay.
Apparently they don't make multifocals for astigmatism at the moment. If you have astigmatism, you have to use the ordinary lenses.
Hope this helps.
It took a few weeks to get the balance right, but I went with the last option in the end - multifocal for reading, ordinary for distance. They work really well, and they don't feel any different to ordinary lenses. My optician reckoned it takes about 10 days for your brain to get used to what your eyes are telling it.
My optician was saying that multifocals aren't as good for distance - that was certainly what I found. You get used to seeing fuzzy distance, but I found it very uncomfortable even when I was used to it. With my combination of one multi/one not, I get the best of both worlds. I can read *and* my distance vision is okay.
Apparently they don't make multifocals for astigmatism at the moment. If you have astigmatism, you have to use the ordinary lenses.
Hope this helps.
I have multifocal lenses in both eyes and have been using them for around a year now. I find my long distance vision is just slightly poorer, but not to any great extent and more than offset with the ability to read without squinting.
Comfort wise they are superb, I use the all day all night version and often forget to take them out for the whole month.
Cost wise they are roughly half as much again as ordinary lenses but I feel they're worth the extra.
For really close work I still need to use a pair of reading glasses.
Comfort wise they are superb, I use the all day all night version and often forget to take them out for the whole month.
Cost wise they are roughly half as much again as ordinary lenses but I feel they're worth the extra.
For really close work I still need to use a pair of reading glasses.
Fitted lots of people with multifocals and quite often one distance(in the dominant eye) and one multifocal.
They can be a little more "challenging" to get right and are usually a compromise but they can be very sucessful.
The distance and near vision can vary hugely between different makes for the same person , and small tweeks to the prescription and lens design will make a big difference.
Worth sticking with as there is a period where your brain has to learn to use the lens.
They can be a little more "challenging" to get right and are usually a compromise but they can be very sucessful.
The distance and near vision can vary hugely between different makes for the same person , and small tweeks to the prescription and lens design will make a big difference.
Worth sticking with as there is a period where your brain has to learn to use the lens.
blueg33 said:
motco said:
I'm watching this - I have a positive prescription varifocal requirement with astigmatism. My main problem is wearing specs in a crash helmet.
Me too with same issues
Having a negative prescription as lots of people do is less of a problem but with a +ve one as the lenses move up and down the image moves in a magnified manner. It makes me sick - literally!
HelenT said:
Fitted lots of people with multifocals and quite often one distance(in the dominant eye) and one multifocal.
They can be a little more "challenging" to get right and are usually a compromise but they can be very sucessful.
The distance and near vision can vary hugely between different makes for the same person , and small tweeks to the prescription and lens design will make a big difference.
Worth sticking with as there is a period where your brain has to learn to use the lens.
So is it worth me trying one of my distance lens in my leading eye and the multi focal in the other? They can be a little more "challenging" to get right and are usually a compromise but they can be very sucessful.
The distance and near vision can vary hugely between different makes for the same person , and small tweeks to the prescription and lens design will make a big difference.
Worth sticking with as there is a period where your brain has to learn to use the lens.
I feel more at ease with them today. Still a little fuzzy on the distance, but I think this is the compromise bit.
oilandwater said:
So.....tonight I've tried one of my normal sight contacts in my leading eye, and have a multi focal lens in my left eye. Well it's a revelation, my distance is now clear, and my reading is still ok.
Please someone tell me I'm not damaging my eyes doing this!
You are not damaging your eyes. An ophthalmic surgeon suggested trying this to me and the consider laser treatment on one eye. Never went with that but quite often use just one contact lens in my left eye.Please someone tell me I'm not damaging my eyes doing this!
I tried multifocal contact lenses but couldn't get on with them. Wife has just got some and they are fine for her.
oilandwater said:
So.....tonight I've tried one of my normal sight contacts in my leading eye, and have a multi focal lens in my left eye. Well it's a revelation, my distance is now clear, and my reading is still ok.
Please someone tell me I'm not damaging my eyes doing this!
This is what I use all the time, prescribed by my optician. It works better than anything else I've tried. Please someone tell me I'm not damaging my eyes doing this!
SGirl said:
oilandwater said:
So.....tonight I've tried one of my normal sight contacts in my leading eye, and have a multi focal lens in my left eye. Well it's a revelation, my distance is now clear, and my reading is still ok.
Please someone tell me I'm not damaging my eyes doing this!
This is what I use all the time, prescribed by my optician. It works better than anything else I've tried. Please someone tell me I'm not damaging my eyes doing this!
No you just have to find what works best, if someone only has a low reading addition or needs a toric lens to correct astigmatism , I usually start with one multifocal first.
There is a bit of trial and error combined with alot of experience.
Most opticians will have a first choice lens but much less clearcut than just correcting distance (the new Acuvue daily seems to work well especially for positive prescriptions).
You need a patient who has enough motivation to stick with it, and accept a bit of compromise along the way.
There is a bit of trial and error combined with alot of experience.
Most opticians will have a first choice lens but much less clearcut than just correcting distance (the new Acuvue daily seems to work well especially for positive prescriptions).
You need a patient who has enough motivation to stick with it, and accept a bit of compromise along the way.
SGirl said:
Yep. I did a lot of faffing around earlier this year because I couldn't read with my contact lens prescription so we decided to change it. We tried all kinds of options - one ordinary lens for reading and one ordinary for distance, one multifocal for reading and one multifocal for distance, one multifocal for reading and one ordinary for distance.
It took a few weeks to get the balance right, but I went with the last option in the end - multifocal for reading, ordinary for distance. They work really well, and they don't feel any different to ordinary lenses. My optician reckoned it takes about 10 days for your brain to get used to what your eyes are telling it.
My optician was saying that multifocals aren't as good for distance - that was certainly what I found. You get used to seeing fuzzy distance, but I found it very uncomfortable even when I was used to it. With my combination of one multi/one not, I get the best of both worlds. I can read *and* my distance vision is okay.
Apparently they don't make multifocals for astigmatism at the moment. If you have astigmatism, you have to use the ordinary lenses.
Hope this helps.
There are some multifocals for astigmatism, Coopervision do the Proclear Multifocal Toric , and some of the smaller companies such as Mark'ennovy do lenses which can work wellIt took a few weeks to get the balance right, but I went with the last option in the end - multifocal for reading, ordinary for distance. They work really well, and they don't feel any different to ordinary lenses. My optician reckoned it takes about 10 days for your brain to get used to what your eyes are telling it.
My optician was saying that multifocals aren't as good for distance - that was certainly what I found. You get used to seeing fuzzy distance, but I found it very uncomfortable even when I was used to it. With my combination of one multi/one not, I get the best of both worlds. I can read *and* my distance vision is okay.
Apparently they don't make multifocals for astigmatism at the moment. If you have astigmatism, you have to use the ordinary lenses.
Hope this helps.
Well I was coping very well with one multi focal and one longsight, until yesterday. Don't know why, but when I changed cars during the day to a 4x4, my longsight went very fuzzy. Too blurred for me, so I'm back to my longsight lenses and reading specs. Shame, but I'll try again in a few moths or so. I'm just wondering if the difference between my longsight and my reading sight is too great a difference. Thank you all for the input though.
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