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This might sound like a daft question, but does anyone wear contacts, but use reading glasses?

I've worn glasses for 20 years, 1 pair for daily use and a pair for reading. I tried bi-focals and vari-focals, but couldn't get away with them, I was getting headaches, dizzy spells and my balance left a lot to be desired, though that could the combination of drink and only one leg. :rolleyes: Because of my clumsiness, I do happen to break my glasses with a hint of regularity, last year I went through 3 pairs of normal and 1 pair of readers, so it's getting expensive.

Has anyone made the transition and was it beneficial?

Thank you

Alan/HJ.
 
Yes. I've used gas permeable lenses for over 30 years for distance, and cheap readers for close up work. I usually change into glasses when I get home from work, or just don't bother. Average around 12hours each day in contacts.

Recently my prescription has changed so both eyes are the same, and the optician suggested using just one contact in my dominant eye, and leaving the other eye without for close up. It really works! No need to use readers, and distance is good.
 
Yes in reverse to your question but I did it for years driving on race tracks. No glasses with crash helmet but still needed to read out of the car.

Varifocals now but a friend did try and sell me on the multi focal contact lenses - may be worth considering.

Big advantage for you would be not have glasses steam up in winter. I used to it the cheap readers by the pack at Costco so no stress when I lost them, sat on them or left them on the car roof.
 
Yes. Contacts for travelling to work or on the bike with reading glasses when I need to look at the phone or computer screen.
 
Yes, I wear toric lenses for distance when shooting or riding the bike ( helps with astigmatism) and cheap readers. No problems.
 
yes, daily contacts during day time or night time work for when driving and outdoors work/activity but reading glasses for close up work such a reading, laptop or surface inspection.

Splinter said:
using just one contact in my dominant eye, and leaving the other eye without for close up
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Different prescription between left and right eye. Thus was not to keen on trying the one eye scenario as sounded like a headache promotor.

TonySTS said:
multi focal contact lenses
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Never tried them but it may be worrh to give them a go.
 
After 20+ years of contacts I seem to no longer be able to wear them all of a sudden, my near vision is horrendous with them in and it's at arms length to see anything!

Last time at the opticians he suggested some readers! It didn't go down well it has to be said 😂

I've come to a compromise and gone back to spectacles and just take them off when need to do something close up instead.

Interesting with the one lens idea, might try that.
 
Yep, I've worn contacts since I was 18. I'm 49 now, and I need readers when wearing my contacts. Without contacts I wear normal glasses, which I have to remove for reading. So I read with naked eyes.
I spend most of my life either wearing or removing glasses of one type or another. It's very frustrating, and one of those "old man" things that I thought would never happen to me.
But it did, and it gets worse with every passing year.
 
Thank you all for the replies, I'll be heading to the optitians tomorrow to ask the question and get some information.

What might the cost be for contacts? Or is this the "how long is a piece of string question"?

Thank you.
 
Horiontal Jogger said:
Thank you all for the replies, I'll be heading to the optitians tomorrow to ask the question and get some information.

What might the cost be for contacts? Or is this the "how long is a piece of string question"?

Thank you.
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I get monthly lenses for a tenner a month at Specsavers
 
Horiontal Jogger said:
Thank you all for the replies, I'll be heading to the optitians tomorrow to ask the question and get some information.

What might the cost be for contacts? Or is this the "how long is a piece of string question"?

Thank you.
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£12 a month at specsavers for gas permeable lenses, including fluids, contact health checks, and eye test.
 
I tried contacts, 3 different versions with
Spec savers (they were very patient with me), however all gave me headaches. I was looking for contacts to live drive in and specs for reading - I read for about an hour 6 days a week if not more.

Sadly it’s back to glasses everywhere.
Spare sets of both in the car
Spare readers in wife’s handbag
Readers for my PC (different prescription as the large screen is at full arms length from my eyes)
Readers at the side of my bed
My “normal” vision and reading pairs.

That’s 8 pairs of glasses hanging around 🥴
 
Well, the good news is, I am suitable for contacts, but because I have a stigmatism (never been told this by any optician ever), so it's going to be a couple of weeks to get some made for me. There's nothing to pay until I've tried them and will be getting a monthly subscription costing only £11.99 if all goes well. I informed the optician that I used distance glasses and readers, he suggested that I don't buy any new reading glasses until I am 100% happy, can live with putting them in and taking them out, cleaning and looking after the lenses.

Fingers crossed, all is good and I can manage without any difficulty.

Thank you for the advice.
 
Horiontal Jogger said:
Well, the good news is, I am suitable for contacts, but because I have a stigmatism (never been told this by any optician ever), so it's going to be a couple of weeks to get some made for me. There's nothing to pay until I've tried them and will be getting a monthly subscription costing only £11.99 if all goes well. I informed the optician that I used distance glasses and readers, he suggested that I don't buy any new reading glasses until I am 100% happy, can live with putting them in and taking them out, cleaning and looking after the lenses.

Fingers crossed, all is good and I can manage without any difficulty.

Thank you for the advice.
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TIP.....I've seen people take minutes to put contacts in, trying and trying to get them directly onto the eye (cornea?). Mine take seconds. I pop them into the corners of my eye, then blink or use my fingers over a closed eye to move them into position. Just be ready with a torch to hunt for them when you drop one - fun after a few shandies 😆
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Fun after a few shandies? Unless I take to early morning drinking, I hope I'll manage to get them in situ before hitting the sauce. I never have alcohol before 7.30pm, so I'll have 12 hours to get it right.
 
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