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<blockquote data-quote="nickt" data-source="post: 609513" data-attributes="member: 4923"><p>Anyone wear multi-focal contact lenses for presbyopia (eyes that don't focus as close as they used to)?</p><p></p><p>I'm really getting frustrated with my vision. I wore contacts all my life, but over the last 10 years, I get less and less near vision while wearing contacts and I need to use reading glasses over them. I'm up to a 15 <strong>foot</strong> range where I need the readers with the contacts. Not so useful. So I mostly wear my regular distance glasses. Everything is focused from 20 <strong>inches</strong> on to infinity. I just take them off to read small print. I miss the wide clear view of contacts though.</p><p></p><p>I tried soft multi-focal contacts about 6 years back. They worked, but I could not get used to them. Your brain is supposed to ignore the blurry regions of the lens. Didn't work for me, I obsess about the blurry areas. I'm hearing good things about gas permeable rigid contacts. No mixed near and far regions to make me crazy. Supposedly with the rigid GP's you get a normal distance view until you cast your eyes downward to see through the near focus area when you need it. I only met one guy that used them, he loves them, but he never tried the soft multi-focals to make a comparison.</p><p></p><p>Has anyone had success trying to make contact lenses work with older eyes?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickt, post: 609513, member: 4923"] Anyone wear multi-focal contact lenses for presbyopia (eyes that don't focus as close as they used to)? I'm really getting frustrated with my vision. I wore contacts all my life, but over the last 10 years, I get less and less near vision while wearing contacts and I need to use reading glasses over them. I'm up to a 15 [B]foot[/B] range where I need the readers with the contacts. Not so useful. So I mostly wear my regular distance glasses. Everything is focused from 20 [B]inches[/B] on to infinity. I just take them off to read small print. I miss the wide clear view of contacts though. I tried soft multi-focal contacts about 6 years back. They worked, but I could not get used to them. Your brain is supposed to ignore the blurry regions of the lens. Didn't work for me, I obsess about the blurry areas. I'm hearing good things about gas permeable rigid contacts. No mixed near and far regions to make me crazy. Supposedly with the rigid GP's you get a normal distance view until you cast your eyes downward to see through the near focus area when you need it. I only met one guy that used them, he loves them, but he never tried the soft multi-focals to make a comparison. Has anyone had success trying to make contact lenses work with older eyes? [/QUOTE]
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