Varifocal Contact Lenses
WHAT IS PRESBYOPIA?
This is a naturally occurring condition which begins to affect most people after 40. It’s when you experience trouble when looking at things close up, small print, needlework etc.
The solution is a pair of reading glasses,but remember they are only focussed for close up, so your distance vision will be blurred. This is why people look over their glasses or end up taking them on and off a lot. If you already wear distance glasses this means carrying two pairs with you all the time and chopping and changing between them – what a faff!
Varifocal spectacles are a brilliant solution as they correct your vision for all distances, but what about the times when you don’t want to wear glasses at all? Well, read on!
With new technology, you can see both DISTANCE & READING with contact lenses! Yes, that means you can drive, look at price tags, and go about your daily routine as if you didn’t need glasses at all. There are many different ways to do this:
MONOVISION
This is when you wear a contact lens in one eye to correct distance vision and in the other eye, one to correct near vision. Your brain does make sense of it! It works really well for a lot of people. A more advanced way of monovision is to have a multifocal contact lens in one eye and a single vision for distance in the other. This means that both eyes can see distance, but only one eye is used to see nearby objects. If you’ve never tried contact lenses, you’ll be surprised how easy they are to take in and out and how comfortable they are to wear.
MULTIFOCAL CONTACT LENSES
These lenses work on your pupil size – when we read, our pupils tend to be smaller, so these contact lenses have the reading prescription in the middle and distance around the edges. Some other designs are the opposite, with distance in the middle and reading on the outside, if you tend to do more driving than reading. After a contact lens assessment, the Optometrist will be able to determine which way round it is going to work best for you. Then you take some home to try for free and let us know how you got on!
