<p>Never made my own saline solution.</p>
<p>I did make my own saline at one time. Not the best idea I think.</p>
<p>I am struggling with this issue. I am very near sighted and have worn contacts since age 14. At this point, I use readers with my contacts but I find after reading for hours like that, I can’t see well at all for at least an hour afterward. (Reading for hours- grad school text books). I use my Nook for most other reading so I don’t have to do that and can make the font bigger, which is good. They offered me bifocal contacts but said I would lose acuity for distance with them. When I wear my glasses and have to read, I just look under them, but have to hold a book pretty close to do that.</p>
<p>What I really dislike about glasses is the lack of peripheral vision, especially when driving. I’m concerned this would be an issue with the bifocal contacts also. And bifocals or mulitfocals would seem to reduce the field of vision even more.</p>
<p>They tried a slight variation of the mono idea by giving me a weaker contact for my better eye. This really isn’t working anymore. I find the weaker acuity for distance frustrating and it isn’t helping me avoid readers anymore either. </p>
<p>It’s really frustrating getting older and not seeing well most of the time. I feel like I need to decide which type of vision is more important. Or hurry up and finish grad school and give up books totally in favor of nook books.</p>
<p>^^^^Or shell out the big bucks for the crystal lens.</p>
<p>. I’ve been experimenting with various contact lenses to deal with my presbyopia as well. For multifocal contacts, try getting the highest add possible, even if you are still on the youngish side (less than 50). Also, the mutifocal contacts don’t really decrease your distance acuity. That being said, I am currently “under correcting” my own myopia to allow for reading, and wearing “day and night” contacts (contacts that one can sleep in so very oxygen permeable) for the dry eye.</p>
<p>I wore glasses until I was 20 and hated them. I’m not sure if I wasn’t a good candidate for contact lenses or if my parents were just anti-lenses. Contact lenses were a liberating experience, honestly nearly miraculous, and I’ve been clinging to them ever since. When my vision started to change in my 40’s, I tried multifocals and monovision correction of all sorts. Not only was nothing perfect but I found that my vision kept changing and what had seemed to work no longer functioned after a matter of months. But I can’t bear to go back to glasses of any kind. I’m now wearing Coopervision proclear one day multifocal lenses with reasonably good success but they still require me to bring out the reading glasses in low light and with very small print. They are better than anything I’ve tried in the past though so I’m crossing my fingers that these will be my answer for awhile. At least until I need cataract surgery :P</p>
<p>I have worn soft contacts for 25 years. Eye dr. switched me to mono vision at some point early in the process, without telling me. Kind of not happy about that. Am fairly near sighted with a bit of astigmatism that doesn’t get totally corrected with contacts.</p>
<p>I LOVE contacts. I have worn glasses 3 times in 5 years…only because contacts aren’t allowed in surgery. I cannot stand the loss of periphery sight with glasses and having to constantly move one’s head to see through the glass…ug. Glasses also look bad and are uncomfortable with my nose.</p>
<p>My distance vision isn’t as good as I would like. If they completely correct it, there’s too much difference between the eyes and I feel as if I overdosed on codeine cough syrup on a tilt-a-whirl. I can see really small things better if I take one contact. </p>
<p>I need more light to read than anyone I know, including my parents. I have turned into my grandma, turning on lights for everyone. 
Since they made my eyes mono-vision, I don’t think I could ever get used to multi-focal contacts. Plus, I’m really, really bad at change!</p>
<p>I’m on the Coopervision ProClear 1 day regular contacts now. Maybe I’ll go ahead and try the multifocal ones before the flex spending account money disappears.</p>
<p>I’ve worn rigid gas permeable (RGP) lenses for several years. I’m very nearsighted. The past year though I’ve worn an RGP in one eye and a soft in other. I developed a tiny, tiny ‘bump’ or scar on the cornea of my right eye. I now use a soft lens in right eye because the RGP was bumping into the bump on my cornea causing too much discomfort and irritation. My eye doctor tried different size RGPs, couldn’t get right fit without lens hitting ‘bump’ and she switched me to soft lens for that eye. So now i’m wearing the two different type lenses. The soft lens I’m now wearing is a Bausch+Lomb PureVision 2.</p>
<p>At night the RGP eye’s vision is much sharper with better clarity, the soft lens eye vision is not anywhere as sharp as the RGP eye and I even experience halo effect with lights at night. The eye doctor as had me experiment with different soft lenses, but I still get halos effect and poorer vision than with RGP eye. What I’m getting at is I wonder how many millions of people driving cars at night have soft lenses in BOTH eyes and have vision not safe for driving at night. People get their eyes checked at drivers license offices daytime not in dark, I wonder how many people wearing soft lenses in both eyes would fail a vision test for driving if vision tests were given in night setting? Is it just me with an RGP and a soft lens, or is it a more widespread problem lurking in the dark with millions of soft lens wearers driving cars at night with poor vision?</p>
<p>Yoho YoHo - Please tell me how it is working for you to be under corrected for distance. Has this trade off allowed you to read and see small stuff, (Sewing, or clipping fingernails)? I’ve been going back and forth with my eye Dr. trying to get multifocals for working, but I really need to see the close-up work more than distance.</p>
<p>I started wearing rigid gas permeable lenses at the age of 15. In my early 50s, I switched to multifocal rigid gas permeable lenses. Initially, I had major problems with them–it turned out I was allergic to the dye used in one brand. Once that problem was resolved, I wore them until my late 50s. It was getting to the point that I had to take them out after 5-6 hours.</p>
<p>I switched to soft mutifocal lenses. While I wasn’t a good candidate for them a decade ago, due to astigmatisms in both eyes, they’ve improved a lot and I can now wear them.</p>
<p>I do have to wear glasses for small print–like the small lettering on OTC medicine bottles–I can read a book/most menus without them. </p>
<p>I correct for different things. One eye can’t be corrected to 20/20 for distance anyway, so in that eye, my optometrist gave me a prescription that is primarily for middle distance like a computer screen. That eye also has a bad astigmatism, so I use a toric lens. [Toric</a> Contact Lenses: What to Know | CooperVision®](<a href=“http://coopervision.com/about-contacts/toric-contact-lenses]Toric”>Toric Contact Lenses: What to Know | CooperVision) The other eye is corrected primarily for distance. My brain automatically switches the dominant eye as I focus on different distances. </p>
<p>I tried the dailys, the bi-weekly, and monthlies. I find the daily tends to jump around a lot in my eye. The monthlies get too gunked up to wear. I now wear the bi-weekly kind. I can ONLY use Clear Care lens cleaner. Any other type and after about 5-6 days my bi-weeklies have too much gunk on them to wear comfortably.</p>
<p>My optometrist wears several different prescriptions herself. She has one prescription that she uses when she drives because it gives her the best distance vision. Her hobby is gardening, so she needs to see best close up for that. She wears a different prescription for that. </p>
<p>If anyone needs a good contact lens specialist in NYC, shoot me a PM. I really recommend her.</p>
<p>I wear a -5.0 in one eye and a - 5.5 in the other. That is for distance and I use readers of about +1.75. My son has -4.0 in both eyes. I’m thinking maybe I could test drive mono vision by replacing one of mine with one of his? I guess it would be the -5.5? My eyes are a little dry, but I get though the day with my acuvue so it’s not bad. I would not like less sharp distance that some of you say the multifocal causes. What do you think?</p>
<p>Mom used to do mono-vision way back when…she had hard lenses. Some years ago she gave in and just wears her progressive glasses. I am now starting to understand why as my eyes age. (50)</p>
<p>I was very nearsighted and wore glasses at age 7, then hard lenses (the really old fashioned kind!) from age 16-28, then rigid gas permeable, then soft (Toric for astigmatism too). I was too nearsighted to get decent refraction with glasses (-8.25 and -8.50). I was told I couldn’t get Lasik, then in the early 2000s the technology changed and I had Lasik and it was truly a miracle. To not need glasses or contacts after a lifetime of legal blindness was amazing. It’s been ten years and now I do need reading glasses, but it still seemed later than many of my friends (at about age 50). I can tell my distance vision is softening up some, and if I need glasses with a weeny correction for driving, I’m totally fine with it. I couldn’t see putting a piece of plastic in my eye at age 60 or 70, and I’m not sure I’d have been able to see well ever with glasses, so Lasik has been a life-changer for me.</p>
<p>I have air optix multifocals, but they irritate my eyes and I see better out of glasses. So dont wear them often.</p>
<p>They didn’t work for me. I never tried reading glasses on top of single focal contacts but it’s an interesting idea. There are times I wish I could be glasses free and the progressives aren’t perfect either. Definitely feeling the aging in my eyes.</p>
<p>I’ve had monovision contacts for years and love them. For very fine print, I put a pair of reading glasses over them but I do that very rarely.</p>
<p>I’m having a really hard time right now with my contacts. At the moment I am wearing mono vision contacts where one eye is under corrected so I use one eye for distance and one for reading. This works ok in the daytime but I am having problems seeing at night. So much so that I can’t drive in my contacts after dark and can’t read menus at restaurants. </p>
<p>It’s really frustrating and I don’t know what to do anymore. I’ve brought it up with the doctor but he doesn’t have any solutions. Is this what happens as you age? Am I destined to wear my (to me, very unattractive) glasses at night? </p>
<p>This aging thing stinks.</p>
<p>The distance between the contacts for my eyes keeps getting greater and greater. My doctor can’t understand how I can continue to use monovision contacts with that much difference. He says most people cannot pull it off.</p>
<p>I just started trying multifocal contacts last week. Far vision is pretty good so very minimal correction. Near vision requires reading glasses almost all the time - 7 pairs of readers all over the place. I am getting so annoyed with constantly moving the readers up and down from the top of my head to my face and hate how glasses feel on my nose.
I am trying the air optix multifocal and am not thrilled. This is the second pair (stronger near correction) and I feel like the near vision is blurry with these too. I spend all day at a computer and filling out forms with tiny print so that is likely a problem.
How many different pairs and brands did you all try to finally get to the right pair? Oh - and I guess my eyes must be dry - these are somewhat irritating. (I did wear contacts for 8 years in my 20s with no problems.)</p>
<p>Stupid question…for the first time my contact boxes say N & D on them (the prescription on both is the same). Does this mean I have the monovision contacts? </p>