First things first - trust me when I say that everybody, even you, will need help seeing up close sometime in your life, probably starting around age 40. This is a promise. 100%. Everybody. Yes, I mean you. Now if you're under 40 you can stop reading now because bifocal contacts are not for you... yet.
If you are wearing reading glasses, bifocals, or struggling to read this article, bifocal contact lenses are a great option, but are not for everyone.
First, but make us play two very important details. Will we discussed bifocal contact lens fittings, I'm not only referring to troop bifocal contact lenses, but also monovision lenses ( one lens for distance only in one lens for near only), in any conceivable combination of bifocal and monovision lenses. So, I'm really only talking about soft contact lenses.
Though not a requirement, these are a few things that may make you a great candidate for bifocal contact lenses: A strong desire to stop wearing glasses, being closer to age 40 than age 60, prior experience with contact lenses, longtime glasses use, a willingness to accept vision that isn't quite perfect in exchange for adequate vision at all distances, and you must understand that reading glasses may still be required from time to time for small print or in poor lighting conditions.
Why you might not be a good candidate: having an eye that doesn't see welleven with the best correction, need for Crystal clear vision, very dry eyes, high amounts of astigmatism, and intends the year of touching your eyes.
There are a couple of things every person should understand prior to trying on any type of bifocal contact lens. 1) Your vision cannot be as clear with bifocal contact lenses as it could be with bifocal glasses, and 2) every person experiences bifocal contact lenses differently and therefore it may take several fittings with vastly different lens combinations before finding the lenses that work best for you.
Bifocal contact lenses do not work the same way as bifocal glasses. When you're looking through bifocal glasses, both eyes look through the distance portion to see faraway and both eyes look through the near portion of the lenses to see close up. Both eyes are always perfectly focused for whatever distance they are viewing. This just isn't possible with bifocal contact lenses. It's not possible to look throughone part of the lens at a time. With contact lenses, part of the vision is always focused up close, and and part of the vision is always focused at a distance. Your brain learns to concentrate on the part of your vision that is focused at a distance and blocks out the part that is focused up close, when you are looking at a distance. This works the same way, but opposite when you are looking at things up close.
In my opinion the biggest factor of whether someone will successfully be fit with bifocal contact lenses is the doctor who fits them. Bifocal contact lenses require a firm understanding of how the different lenses work, a doctor must know what changes to make based on each patient's responses to the lenses, the doctor must him- or herself be very patient, and the doctor must set appropriate expectations through proper education. Fitting bifocal contact lenses properly is a challenge.,
Contact a local eye doctor for your specific requirements with bifocal contact lenses and to see if bifocal contact lenses are right for you. - 15255
If you are wearing reading glasses, bifocals, or struggling to read this article, bifocal contact lenses are a great option, but are not for everyone.
First, but make us play two very important details. Will we discussed bifocal contact lens fittings, I'm not only referring to troop bifocal contact lenses, but also monovision lenses ( one lens for distance only in one lens for near only), in any conceivable combination of bifocal and monovision lenses. So, I'm really only talking about soft contact lenses.
Though not a requirement, these are a few things that may make you a great candidate for bifocal contact lenses: A strong desire to stop wearing glasses, being closer to age 40 than age 60, prior experience with contact lenses, longtime glasses use, a willingness to accept vision that isn't quite perfect in exchange for adequate vision at all distances, and you must understand that reading glasses may still be required from time to time for small print or in poor lighting conditions.
Why you might not be a good candidate: having an eye that doesn't see welleven with the best correction, need for Crystal clear vision, very dry eyes, high amounts of astigmatism, and intends the year of touching your eyes.
There are a couple of things every person should understand prior to trying on any type of bifocal contact lens. 1) Your vision cannot be as clear with bifocal contact lenses as it could be with bifocal glasses, and 2) every person experiences bifocal contact lenses differently and therefore it may take several fittings with vastly different lens combinations before finding the lenses that work best for you.
Bifocal contact lenses do not work the same way as bifocal glasses. When you're looking through bifocal glasses, both eyes look through the distance portion to see faraway and both eyes look through the near portion of the lenses to see close up. Both eyes are always perfectly focused for whatever distance they are viewing. This just isn't possible with bifocal contact lenses. It's not possible to look throughone part of the lens at a time. With contact lenses, part of the vision is always focused up close, and and part of the vision is always focused at a distance. Your brain learns to concentrate on the part of your vision that is focused at a distance and blocks out the part that is focused up close, when you are looking at a distance. This works the same way, but opposite when you are looking at things up close.
In my opinion the biggest factor of whether someone will successfully be fit with bifocal contact lenses is the doctor who fits them. Bifocal contact lenses require a firm understanding of how the different lenses work, a doctor must know what changes to make based on each patient's responses to the lenses, the doctor must him- or herself be very patient, and the doctor must set appropriate expectations through proper education. Fitting bifocal contact lenses properly is a challenge.,
Contact a local eye doctor for your specific requirements with bifocal contact lenses and to see if bifocal contact lenses are right for you. - 15255
About the Author:
Dr. Eric Stamper, O.D. is a Hendersonville, Tn Eye Doctor and owns Visionary Eyecare Center. Dr. Eric Stamper received his optometry degree in May of 2007 from Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, where he graduated with honors in the top 10 percent of his class.
