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Old 11-19-2024, 05:47 AM   #37660
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Originally Posted by CRussel View Post
It's all about the quality of vision. I've worn contacts for >50 years. Mostly original hard or RGP, though I was able to wear a soft lens for maybe 10 years of that time. After cataract surgery, I thought I'd be able to get away without, but the vision in my distance eye just isn't quite good enough -- some unevenness in the surface of the cornea, so an RGP takes care of that completely.

And that points to another reason to do it -- I use one eye for reading, the other for distance. Did it for years with contacts, and the same after my cataract surgery. You simply can't do that with glasses.
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Oddly, one of the last pair of glasses I had before I switched to multifocals had my eyes corrected with more difference than my usual prescription for that reason. My left eye is good enough to pass a driving test without correction while my right eye has trouble focusing on anything further away than the tip of my nose. The left eye was corrected for distance while the right eye was corrected for reading (-1.125 compared to -5.75). And yes, I have those glasses where the two lenses are rather different thickness.
I agree about quality of vision. Particularly in keratoconus and other corneal imperfections. Glasses don’t help in those cases. I’ve tried David’s work around on a few of my clients and it did work for most of them. Multifocals didn’t work for me, sadly.
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