This is giving me things to keep in mind for when it’s my turn.
I have thought I would do #1, but while I don’t wear makeup, I often take off my glasses for very near work such as threading a needle or doing an intricate repair. Even though I have fairly significant astigmatism, somehow it seems I see better close up with my own eyes. So I will have to think more about this option.
I wore monovision contacts for about 10 years. Even though I loved them, I could tell it created a certain amount of stress. And I kept an arsenal of glasses to wear over them when I needed really good vision for driving under bad conditions or reading very fine print (or just reading for a long time). Some of that may be attributable to my astigmatism not being precisely corrected with soft contacts. But I just knew I would not want permanent monovision that I could never escape.
The monovision worked great when I had my own office for 8 years. But when I semi retired and started working here and there, my vision wasn’t perfect enough for continually changing environments with new bosses and coworkers, and carting around extra glasses was a hassle. Again, hard to determine what part was due to monovision and what part to astigmatism.
I’m not a candidate for the Crystal lenses…because I have glaucoma.
And there is a sizable additional cost per lens for those that insurance does not cover.
I had cataract surgeries last spring. (Also a little “spot welding” of one retina before the surgery.) I had my first eye corrected to 20/20 (with a toric lens) and then took a month trying out monovision. Being so extremely nearsighted and wearing glasses since I was five, the perfect distance vision was a dream I couldn’t pass up. (I had not been able to get close to 20/20 with glasses or contacts for years.) I’m fairly active and it is so great to just head out into the world every morning and seeing the night sky clearly the first night literally brought me to tears. The reading glasses are a bit of a nuisance but I couldn’t be happier with the way things turned out. (I actually did a “testimonial” for my surgeon’s website.)
For anyone who depends on readers I recommend these-
http://www.clicmagneticglasses.com/clic-brooklyn-oval-reading-glasses-in-blue-jeans/
They don’t get in the way and they don’t get lost.
I’d go with choice #1 personally. I have one pair of glasses with progressive lenses and a second used for reading. The idea of 20/20 far vision sounds great! I wouldn’t mind keeping the reading glasses.
Thumper, Do you wear progressive glasses now? Personally, I think I would go with option 3, because like Emilybee, I am near-sighted in one-eye and far-sighted in the other so fixing both would be (will be - I have the beginning of cataracts too) awesome! I wear progressive lenses now and have for years.
@walkinghome
I do wear progressive lenses now. I won’t do option three. Even my eye doc doesn’t suggest that for me. It would be one thing if I had done the monovision thing with contacts for years…but I haven’t.
I’m leaning towards 2 but I need to ask what my far point vision without the glasses will be. I’d love to be able to,see far without glasses. But also, since I’ve been wearing glasses my whole life…having progressives with near point correction wouldn’t be a huge issue. And I think I’d like that better than readers!