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latest update--went to eye doctor for new contacts, prebyopia plus myopia?
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| marcia_jay via MedKB.com 2006-09-25, 4:28 pm |
| Hi, all, remember me? (see thread "long time contact lens wearer, presbyopia
now an issue...")
I finally went to the eyedoctor.
He spent a long time examining me, and then announced that he is going to
make me have one regular lens for far vision, but scaled back a bit from what
I have (because I squint in that eye now), and the other would be a bifocal
lens.
Both would be RPG lenses.
He didn't actually give me a bunch of choices or anything.
The first return I could see nothing from either lens, which I thought was
kinda strange, and that is when he made the decision to do a bifocal in one
and regular in the other (I don't know what the two weak ones were that he
had me try on).
Does anyone have any opinions about this? Does it sound like a reasonable
plan? I thought I had heard mostly negative things about RPG bifocals.
Just a reminder, I am VErY nearsighted (like -11 or -12 or something like
that). My old lenses correct me to 20 20, but the presbyopia has come into
play.
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| Dan Abel 2006-09-25, 9:33 pm |
| In article <66d46a1cbff22@uwe>, "marcia_jay via MedKB.com" <u25162@uwe>
wrote:
> Hi, all, remember me? (see thread "long time contact lens wearer, presbyopia
> now an issue...")
I know nothing about RGPs or bifocal contacts. I don't know anything
about bifocal or progressive glasses either.
I wore contacts for about 10 years. I was also very myopic (-10 and
-12). I was very happy wearing contacts for distance and adding OTC
reading glasses for close. It's a matter of personal preference,
though. I lot of people really hate switching glasses on and off, or
switching from one to another.
I have had cataract surgery in both eyes, and no longer require any
correction for distance. I still wear OTC reading glasses for close
work.
For the 35 years before contacts, I first wore a pair of single vision
glasses, and then when presbyopia hit, another pair for close.
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Dan Abel
dabel@sonic.net
Petaluma, California, USA
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