posted on August 25, 2005 03:48:52 PM
Hey you originally said that you are wearing mono vision contact lenses. How long did it take you to get used to them and not feeling like you were on drugs and f*cked up?
I'm not too sure this is going to work for me but it's only been two days.
posted on August 25, 2005 04:14:18 PM
When I first started wearing contacts, I felt like I was high all the time. I don't know why, but I felt wacked-out for about a week. It was weird!
posted on August 25, 2005 04:35:34 PM
no they checked my right eye dominant and my right eye IS domanant.
I even tried putting the +1 in my right eye to see if I felt any better and it wasn't.
I love my right eye with the contacts.
I love my left eye with the contacts.
BUT wearing both of them at the same time makes me feel a little wacko.
They had me wear them 3 hours yesterday and 5 today - gradually increasing. I'll hang in there and see what happens. My next check up is Tuesday.
I thought that was weird that I couldn't see as well with the bifocal lens in reading.
Like on the computer - with the screen where it is I have a hard time seeing it. Close up and far away now I can see GREAT! I guess it's the inbetween that's messing me up.
posted on August 25, 2005 05:04:46 PM
I've been toying with the idea of getting contacts. Right now my lenses are bifocals and I'm thinking of changing to trifocals. It's murder on the neck when working on a computer. Not sure how the contacts would work with needing bifocals, though. It seems like my eyesight has gotten worse since I've been wearing glasses.
posted on August 25, 2005 05:07:12 PM
Well, here goes...
WHAT IS PRESBYOPIA?
In order to focus at NEAR, yer eyeball has a marvelous clear lens inside it called the Crystaline Lens -- In order to READ, you have to change the shape of this len (bulge it)...
When yer YOUNG & FRISKY (like Ralphie) the ability to change the shape of yer crystalline lens (accommadation) is GREAT!
But, sometime around the age of 40-45, this ability starts going down the tubes. One starts losing the ability to change the shape of this lens inside yer eye & thus the ability to focus at different CLOSE distances (such as READING (14-16" or INTERMEDIATE (computer)) starts to end.
By age 55, it is essentially GONE & yer eye is fixed-focus -- has NO accommodative ability at all...
This loss of NEAR FOCUSING ABILITY is...Presbyopia
EVERYTHING FROM NOW ON BECOMES A MATTER OF COMPROMISE
Ain't NO way to get away from this simple FACT!
If one reqires PERFECT VISION at DISTANCE + INTERMEDIATE + NEAR, then the only thing that will come CLOSE is TRIFOCAL GLASSES, with all the disadvantages inherent with them...
Remember what I said before about MOTIVATION + REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS?
With a 15yo moderately myopic girl, it is VERY EASY to make them happy with SCLs! No matter how "squishy" the 20/30 vision was, they were delighted to JUST GET RID OF THEIR GLASSES. And, since they are YOUNG, they hage HUGE powers of accommodation, & thus, no trouble reading at close with their SCLs.
My MOST DREADED CL patient was: 45yo MALE LAWYER or ENGINEER. I would say my success rate with those kinds of patients was <1%
WHY: because their VISUAL REQUIREMENTS far outstripped the CL technology available at that time (& for the forseeable future, for that matter), and their expectations were totally UNREALISTIC! Hell, it's impossible (almost) to make them satisfied with glasses
The only reason I never went for contacts is the thought of having to stick something in my eye. Glasses are easier. Just take them off at night and put them on in the mornin'. Most of the time I don't even know I have them on. Of course, I remove them for pics. Nothing like creating camera glare! Between my glasses and script sunglasses I spent $600!
I just put a great scratch in the glasses. A lot of good they do me. I ran into a door! Scratched my glasses, bruised my hand and got a good bump on the forehead. LOL! Well, it was dark you know.
The problem with bifocals is I have to look through the bottom to see up close and that means tilting my head up when looking at the monitor. I've tried adjusting the monitor and my chair. No go.
posted on August 25, 2005 05:31:23 PM
I have several friends who swear wearing a contact in one eye and having the other eye "naked" works the best. I guess they qualify as Presbyterians...ooops I mean Presbyoptics but still have at least mid-range vision.
I have bi-focals (with prisms because my eyes aren't working together any more) but wear my glasses on the top of my head when working on the computer and doing close reading of postcards (keeping an eye on God). When I tried contacts the last time I couldn't even see to write a check at the supermarket!
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posted on August 25, 2005 05:39:44 PM
now there's a thought...I hadn't thought of how it would feel to wear one contact and not the other. I did freak a little when they said they put my reading lens in my left eye and my far away lens in my right eye...I questioned that. Because I said I read a lot more than I look in the distance.
I will give these a couple more days to see if my brain can adjust and then I will try just one lens in at a time.
But Tom - how DO people get the normal middle vision? I had NO IDEA you get one or the other but not all three! (near, middle and far away) I just always took it for granted that it was always there!
posted on August 25, 2005 05:46:42 PM
Extend both hands forward of your body and place the hands together making a small triangle (approximately 1/2 to 3/4 inch per side) between your thumbs and the first knuckle.
With both eyes open, look through the triangle and center something such as a doorknob or the bullseye of a target in the triangle.
Close your left eye. If the object remains in view, you are right eye dominant. If your hands appear to move off the object and move to the left, then you are left eye dominant.
To validate the first test, look through the triangle and center the object again with both eyes open.
Close your right eye. If the object remains in view, you are left eye dominant. If your hands appear to move off the object and move to the right, then you are right eye dominant.
One more alternative method is to assume the same position with your hands forming the triangle around the object and have both eyes open. Now, slowly bring your hands toward your face while continuing to look at the object with both eyes open. When your hands touch your face, the triangle opening should be in front of your dominant eye.
Repeat the above tests a number of times to satisfy yourself that you are sure which eye is your dominant eye.
posted on August 25, 2005 05:50:55 PM"...had NO IDEA you get one or the other but not all three! (near, middle and far away) I just always took it for granted that it was always there"
LOL! It is always there -- until ya hit 40...
In order to see at those different NEAR distances, (14 in or 24in or 30in) you have to be able to change the shape of yer human lens. This ability to change the shape of yer human lens is called ACCOMMODATION, and is extremely powerful when yer young...
As you reach 40 and then 45 and then 50 (etc), this ability goes down the tubes -- YOU THEN HAVE TO START MAKING COMPROMISES...
(NOTE: all of this has NOTHING to do with DISTANCE VISION what-so-ever! EVERYBODY becomes PRESBYOPIC, regardless if they are HYPEROPIC or MYOPIC or ASTIGMATIC or NOTHING...EVERYBODY BECOMES PRESBYOPIC...tis a function of AGE)
BTW: have you ever looked in a telescope or microscope? WHICH eye do ya use? That's yer DOMINANT EYE. Usually (but NOT always), it corresponds with yer "handed-ness"
posted on August 25, 2005 06:05:06 PM
Hi GG,
A fews years back when I decided to go back to college to do a career change, I carried way too many classes and thought the strain was too much from reading practically 24/7.
Nope the optimetrist told me it was time to think about wearing bifocals. Well, I let out a primal scream right there in his office. That just validated OLD AGE in my eyes. The thought of wearing bifocals was extremely scary since at the time, I worked with 20 something year olds and they already considered me their MOM.
But the optimetrist suggested wearing the one contact in my dominate eye like Tom & Ralphie stated. I tried it and I have nevered looked back. I LOVE it. Very easy and cheap. I don't have to put on reading glasses or wear bifocal glasses.
He suggested that I try this in the afternoon for a few hours at home until I acclimated to them.
I still wear glasses if I am home but when I walk out the door, I stick in my one lense and out I go.
posted on August 25, 2005 08:16:10 PM
I honestly can't remember if I felt quesy when first wearing the monovision lenses. I've been wearing them so long. If I did, it couldn't have been for long.
I'm right-handed but not sure which eye is dominant. My lense Rx has my left eye seeing near and the right eye far and it works for me.
I have the same prescription in my glasses but it doesn't work nearly as well as the contacts. My doc says it's because the contacts are so close on the eye. He also said I'd have a hard time adjusting to bifocals so I'll just stick with what works.
Good Luck! Hang in there for awhile and see what happens.
or INTERMEDIATE (computer)) starts to end.
but still have at least mid-range vision.
