Monovision fitting. S/o reading glasses

[Pom]

FYI share. I am a contact wearer but starting to require reading glasses for fine print. So sunglasses, reading glasses, switching around was pissing me off. Today I had an eye appt at a new eye doc (that I loved) and she suggested a monovision fitting which means one eye/the dominant was fitted with the usual RX and the non dominant eye is your reading RX. I'm only a couple of hours in to this but kind of awesome so far. Anyone have any long wear experience with this? Pardon me if this is common but it was news to me. I hope it works long term.

[TBM]

I don't have personal experience, but several friends and acquaintances when we lived in CA did that and raved about it. A few had been doing it for at least a few years.

[ScubaKP]

My mom did this years ago with her contacts, before her distance improved. Now she just had her cataracts done like this and like you is loving it. If it works for you, keep right on loving it!! I am sort of lucky that after my Lasix years ago I am slightly near-sighted again, so no readers yet. Distance glasses for night driving, I can handle - after 25 years in glasses/contacts, going over 10 without is NICE!

[mich1]

Yep, I switched to mono vision awhile ago......maybe 8 years? I'm severely nearsighted, -10, so my farsightedness took a little later to show up. My optometrist is really good at getting it right, but I moved and she is 2500 miles away.

At the beginning, when my eyes got tired my brain would get confused. My mono vision lenses also screws up a bit with my target shooting, but I've figured out a way to work around it.

[Mrs.Rad888]

I don't need to wear readers yet, unless I'm wearing my contacts. My contacts correct for distance, and until recently, that correction didn't affect my close-up vision too much. However, for the last few years, if I have my contacts in, I can't read for shit. My last eye appointment, I talked to the optometrist about bi-focal contacts, and ended up doing something like mono-vision correction, but with one contact for just distance, and one contact with bi-focal correction. 

[dirtyred]

I had monovison Lasik 10 years ago and it rocks.

[susan3589]

I've had monovision contact lenses for more years than I can remember. It is great. I put them in when I get up in the morning and take them out at night. I can see everything!

[drloretta]

Yes, I'm on my second set, with more difference between the 2 eyes. Other than having minor issues with one lens (it's to correct astigmatism as well and tends to curl) I like it

[TheSeaward]

I have been in mono vision lenses for about 15 years now. I my presbyopia started early before I was 40
I found it took about 2 weeks at first and as my prescription got stronger it would take a few days to adjust
But now I can go between contacts and readers easily
I love the freedom contact lenses give me!