My nearsightedness was about your range. Pretty bad huh? I tried contacts with both eyes fitted for distance once and it drove me absolutely batty! Seems I couldn’t see anything without taking readers on and off every two minutes.That’s when I did the monovision with contacts and that worked great for me. I didn’t need readers at all. Took a few days to adjust but that was a great solution for me. But I guess monovision only works well for 50-70 percent of people which makes it a true gamble for cataract surgery unless you already know it works for you.
My first inclination was to do the same for cataracts but glad I went for the multifocal in the long run.