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<blockquote data-quote="nickt" data-source="post: 609533" data-attributes="member: 4923"><p>Glad I'm not alone here. I find bifocals annoying too. Not so bad as sunglasses if I'm just sitting around, but for everyday wear, not good. My trouble with the multifocal contacts is like I said above about noticing the blurry areas but it goes deeper than that. I feel handicapped. At distance, sure, I can see things, read signs, etc, but I think due to only a portions of the scene being in focus, I'm missing subtle stuff. For instance, I'll hear a bird in the tree and I can't easily find it. Or I'll be looking over a crowd of people for my wife and can't easily find her. It was very odd, I think due to not really seeing every detail in the entire scene and having my brain basically fill in the blanks. No way I'll ever get used to that, I'm too detail orientated. Same problem for reading, I could read every individual word on the page, but for something that needed concentration, like an instruction manual, it was frustrating. I think my brain likes to see the whole page at once.</p><p>I have tried one eye for reading and one for distance. For me, that was just wearing one lens for distance, leaving the reading eye bare. It works and I would rate it a good bit better than the multi focal lenses, but it gives the same frustrating issues noted above for things requiring concentration or 'finding' something in a crowd. If I am going to work on the car and have greasy hands, I'll wear one contact lens so I can see my fingers and find my tools scattered around the driveway. My eyes aren't too bad, both -1.75, so depth perception was not ruined, but it just messes with my concentration and problem solving big time. </p><p>I have to find a place that has good experience with the rigid gp multifocals, the mall docs hate multifocals, too much chair time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickt, post: 609533, member: 4923"] Glad I'm not alone here. I find bifocals annoying too. Not so bad as sunglasses if I'm just sitting around, but for everyday wear, not good. My trouble with the multifocal contacts is like I said above about noticing the blurry areas but it goes deeper than that. I feel handicapped. At distance, sure, I can see things, read signs, etc, but I think due to only a portions of the scene being in focus, I'm missing subtle stuff. For instance, I'll hear a bird in the tree and I can't easily find it. Or I'll be looking over a crowd of people for my wife and can't easily find her. It was very odd, I think due to not really seeing every detail in the entire scene and having my brain basically fill in the blanks. No way I'll ever get used to that, I'm too detail orientated. Same problem for reading, I could read every individual word on the page, but for something that needed concentration, like an instruction manual, it was frustrating. I think my brain likes to see the whole page at once. I have tried one eye for reading and one for distance. For me, that was just wearing one lens for distance, leaving the reading eye bare. It works and I would rate it a good bit better than the multi focal lenses, but it gives the same frustrating issues noted above for things requiring concentration or 'finding' something in a crowd. If I am going to work on the car and have greasy hands, I'll wear one contact lens so I can see my fingers and find my tools scattered around the driveway. My eyes aren't too bad, both -1.75, so depth perception was not ruined, but it just messes with my concentration and problem solving big time. I have to find a place that has good experience with the rigid gp multifocals, the mall docs hate multifocals, too much chair time. [/QUOTE]
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