Varifocal....

[simon the viking]

Contact lenses!

I went for a check up at the opticians and he confirmed something I was already aware of, that my close up vision when wearing my contact lenses is beginning to suffer, not a problem yet but maybe in a years time I may have problems reading with my lenses in. I assumed that I would have to have reading glasses which I would inevitably lose every six months. But no apparently there are now varifocal contact lenses... I had to check the date on watch to make sure it wasn't April the First but no they really exist.

my question? anyone out there using them and if so, do they work?

 

[simon the viking]

[QUOTE 2333301, member: 259"]My wife has varifocal daily contact lenses and they work very well. But they aren't cheap. She's used them for about four or five years and they work perfectly apparently. The monthlies are much cheaper.

The varifocals slip into place on the eye in the same way as torics.[/quote]

Thanks for reply, nice to hear that they work. I'm monthlies and he said about a tenner more than I'm paying at moment I'd spend that on lost reading glasses! he reckons by probably next eye test I may have to think about doing something.

 

[simon the viking]

[QUOTE 2333329, member: 259"]I had to change a year or so ago (glasses not lenses, I've had to give up on those). But varifocals make your ageing life a lot easier![/quote]
My wife has tried lenses twice and gave up both times, the first as a teenager the second soon after we married. I said "Go for it" and the in-laws said "you wouldn't say that if you had known her the last time she tried". They were right, she tended to get a bit stressed with them.

My mum said about the need for varifocals it was middle age thing, I politely pointed that if I was middle aged then she was....?

 

[sidevalve]

Do be aware that like varifocal specs there is a "line of neither right nor wrong" focus which can often seem to be always in the wrong place at the wrong time. They may not work for you. My wife adapted very quickly and has no problems but I had to go back to wearing simple bifocal specs. You may be fine [and I hope you are] but they might not suit you.

 

[simon the viking]

Do be aware that like varifocal specs there is a "line of neither right nor wrong" focus which can often seem to be always in the wrong place at the wrong time. They may not work for you. My wife adapted very quickly and has no problems but I had to go back to wearing simple bifocal specs. You may be fine [and I hope you are] but they might not suit you.

Thanks for the reply.
My optician did say they didn't suit everyone, but hopefully if I need them they will work for me.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Contact lenses!

I went for a check up at the opticians and he confirmed something I was already aware of, that my close up vision when wearing my contact lenses is beginning to suffer, not a problem yet but maybe in a years time I may have problems reading with my lenses in. I assumed that I would have to have reading glasses which I would inevitably lose every six months. But no apparently there are now varifocal contact lenses... I had to check the date on watch to make sure it wasn't April the First but no they really exist.

my question? anyone out there using them and if so, do they work?

Me, they do, ish...

They won't cope with astigmitism and you can't get graduations as fine as glasses, but, where as I wear variofocal glasses most of the time, if I know I'm going to be wet or hot, or dusty or want to scrub up I can wear the lenses with not a huge loss of acuity.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Do be aware that like varifocal specs there is a "line of neither right nor wrong" focus which can often seem to be always in the wrong place at the wrong time. They may not work for you. My wife adapted very quickly and has no problems but I had to go back to wearing simple bifocal specs. You may be fine [and I hope you are] but they might not suit you.

There are now a type of variofocal lense that doens't have this,

 

[simon the viking]

Thanks folks I think when the time comes I will get a trial pair, after 20 years of wearing lenses and not misting up,no rain on them etc I really don't want to go back to glasses