ann clare

I wore contacts for many years then had laser. Found both great. Now I am back to glasses. Age has caught up with me.

sewgull

I wear contact and use reading reading glasses for close up reading or sewing. My eye doctor suggested using readers, as I did not need stronger contact for daily wear. Or remove contacts and wear precription glasses.

Pam B

I have terrible eyesight and have worn contacts for at least 35 years now. I am soon to be 54 and my eyesight has progressed to where I need bifocals so now my contacts are what they call mono-vision which is one for up close and one for distance. My brain does ok with them. However, my eyesight is so bad and there is such a disparity between my distance and up-close need that I still have a few issues that we (my eye dr and me) have not yet resolved.

For instance, I find that I do not see well at night, or in low-level lighting. My dr says that is common with women so I have a pair of glasses to put on with my contacts when I am driving at night. Now, I am finding that I really need them driving during the day, as well.

I am due for my yearly visit with her this summer and I am not sure what direction we will go next. I am tempted to have her beef up my distance vision and just get some glasses for when I am doing close up stuff like reading/hand stitching, etc. But then I am afraid I would need a differect pair of glasses for when I am sewing with my machine or using my computer. And, then, of course, there is the issue of when I am teaching/working with my kdg kids. I can just picture it now...I might very well be wearing 3 different pair of glasses on chains around my neck all day long! Isn't that a funny thought?!! LOL

2wheelwoman

I also am using mono-vision correction. One contact for close, one for distance. Problem is...nothing is ever the right distance away! I can wander down the aisle at the market and not be able to read the soup cans because they're too in-between.

I found that I need readers in addition, so buy the really cheapo ones and punch out the lens over the close-up eye so it doesn't change, and let the readers correct the distance eye. My dusk-to-dark vision isn't so great anymore, something I'm going to discuss with my doc this year.

Getting older ain't for sissies, is it?

Lisanne

I started wearing glasses the summer before 6th grade, switched to contacts in college. Very nearsighted!

I've always preferred not wearing either for just reading. I have bifocal glasses that I wear around the house for cleaning and things, but most of the time, they're off at home.

Now I wear readers over the contacts at work for both near and middle-distance vision (Near is reading a book. Middle is looking at a computer screen.)

I tried bifocal contacts, but I lose my 20/15 distance vision with them and don't really gain enough acuity for reading to make them worthwhile.

NewYearsOld

I have worn glasses for nearly 40 years. 17 years ago I scratched my cornea and had to have some surgery. They told me then that I was not a good candidate for contacts. I have one near sided eye, and one far sided eye. (just like my mom) Can't seem to get the no line bifocals, middle part perfect for the computer work even though they have rechecked the prescription. The Dr says that my corneas look good and that I can try a contact in one eye and then just get readers with just one eye prescription. Don't know if it is worth the hassle of all that. Guess I'm stuck with glasses.

julie

I do the monovision too. But my eyes are so bad, my dr. can get the prescription close, but not perfect. I wear contacts for everything but sewing. I wish I could wear them for that too, but it's just not clear enough.

Jim's Gem

This is what I am afraid of doing Lasik, I don't want to have to wear glasses with my eyes changing because I don't think you can wear contacts any more after having Lasik done. I hate wearing glasses!!!

granniebj

I started out with the old hard contacts and thought the soft lenses were the greatest invention since the microwave! I do use readers to sew tho.

craftybear

glasses to drive with