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That sounds like something to make one bonkers, though it seems that one can get used to most anything. I am very, very thankful for vision. 
posted by
TAPS.
on August 27, 2015 at 1:04 PM
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Ciel
I was a nearsighted person for years who only needed correction for distance. I could give the whole history of my vision changes but they have been fairly textbook, according to my opthalmologist. Anyway, when I began developing presbyopia and needing correction for reading for the first time in my life, I had to change my regular contacts to monovision contacts because my normal distance only corrective contacts bothered me all of a sudden.
I wore monovision for several years, changing the balance until I finally was only wearing one contact. I loved monovision and might consider it again in my reader's version as I no longer need any distance correction and read so much! Your brain makes the correction instantaneously. I highly recommend it based on my experience and I talked to lots of folks (my opthalmologist had my same eydes!) who had positive experiences with it.
posted by
Krisles
on August 27, 2015 at 10:53 AM
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I am not familiar enough with monovision to say. I do not know of anyone who has gone through with it.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 27, 2015 at 5:39 AM
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I think that monovision thing would drive my pitiful pea brain
circling the drain... I'll take the distant vision when time comes to make that choice, and use reading glasses. Hope you continue to do so well and this process works out to benefit your artist's brain...
posted by
Pat_B
on August 27, 2015 at 3:45 AM
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I tried contact lenses like that, because the laser doc told me he couldn't fix my eyes to see both near and far, I would end up with glasses anyway, unless I had each eye doing a different thing. So I did try the contacts - and night driving was scary!! Apparently the dark is a problem for that kind of vision. I stuck to glasses. It may have improved now - this was awhile back.
posted by
adnohr
on August 26, 2015 at 7:09 PM
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I had lasik and have a sort of monovision....depends on the variance....mine wasn't too much of a difference so it didn't bother me at all
posted by
Annicita
on August 26, 2015 at 6:16 PM
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Ciel
That is a bit of a conundrum, isn't it, and one that hadn't even occurred to me. (I need no reading glasses, and I wear glasses when I'm driving only because I can see a bit further, but I'm not reqired to wear them). But I think you've hit on the solution already - since you are driving, you must be able to see far enough ahead, and of course you want to be able to read! So it should be one of each; unless you still want to wear corrective glasses for one or the other situation, which is also possible, I guess...
posted by
Nautikos
on August 26, 2015 at 3:45 PM
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I expect she will choose the same for the other eye. So I don't really know any more ,but I am sure you will find the answer on the net. Good luck.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 26, 2015 at 12:01 PM
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Well funnily enough my SIL had a new lens only last week. She is going to have the other fixed a little later. She seemed un-fazed by the treatment and the only thing she had to
worry about was if she should have a kind of reading lens or one for distance. She chose the reading one. As I told her if she saw a tiger in the distance she would not be able to outrun the beast. So in her case it was a wise decision. I guess you did feel apprehensive. Yes it is very bright, wonderful really. Wish I could have told you last week but I did not know until Sunday.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 26, 2015 at 11:57 AM
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