Bifocal contact lenses

I have a question about bifocal contacts. Do they (as the name implies)
provide only two points of focus like bifocal glasses? I currently wear
progressives because I need the gradual transition between near and far
corrections - I could not adjust to regular bifocal glasses. Are there
contact lenses that are similar to progressives in this regard?

Victek wrote:

> I have a question about bifocal contacts. Do they (as the name implies)
> provide only two points of focus like bifocal glasses? I currently wear
> progressives because I need the gradual transition between near and far
> corrections - I could not adjust to regular bifocal glasses. Are there
> contact lenses that are similar to progressives in this regard?

I couldn't wear RGP multifocal lenses because they kept slipping out of
alignment, but during those few brief seconds that they worked out of
every minute it was like having real eyes. Stuff was in focus at any
distance between a few feet and infinity. If your astigmatism isn't bad
enough to make them impossible to use, go for it!

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In article <fme9ua$1qn$(E-Mail Removed)>, Victek
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have a question about bifocal contacts. Do they (as the name implies)
> provide only two points of focus like bifocal glasses? I currently wear
> progressives because I need the gradual transition between near and far
> corrections - I could not adjust to regular bifocal glasses. Are there
> contact lenses that are similar to progressives in this regard?

I am wearing Purevision Multifocals. They are not like bifocal glasses.
You can see distant and near. I don't notice any transitions. It is
very like my vision was before I needed glasses to read.

--
Charles

>> I have a question about bifocal contacts. Do they (as the name implies)
>> provide only two points of focus like bifocal glasses? I currently wear
>> progressives because I need the gradual transition between near and far
>> corrections - I could not adjust to regular bifocal glasses. Are there
>> contact lenses that are similar to progressives in this regard?
>
> I am wearing Purevision Multifocals. They are not like bifocal glasses.
> You can see distant and near. I don't notice any transitions. It is
> very like my vision was before I needed glasses to read.
>
> --
> Charles

Thanks for the reply. How about computer use? Can you see the screen OK
wearing the contacts?

On Jan 15, 11:24 am, "Victek" <vic...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >> I have a question about bifocal contacts. Do they (as the name implies)
> >> provide only two points of focus like bifocal glasses? I currently wear
> >> progressives because I need the gradual transition between near and far
> >> corrections - I could not adjust to regular bifocal glasses. Are there
> >> contact lenses that are similar to progressives in this regard?
>
> > I am wearing Purevision Multifocals. They are not like bifocal glasses.
> > You can see distant and near. I don't notice any transitions. It is
> > very like my vision was before I needed glasses to read.
>
> > --
> > Charles
>
> Thanks for the reply. How about computer use? Can you see the screen OK
> wearing the contacts?

multifocal contacts can quite easily give good computer-range vision.

In article <fmimo8$1ut$(E-Mail Removed)>, Victek
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. How about computer use? Can you see the screen OK
> wearing the contacts?

I can see the screen fine wearing the contacts.

--
Charles