I *do* need new glasses...

[julesjones]

Well, contact lenses.

I was right -- the reason I was having trouble with close vision was as much my base myopia prescription having changed as my presbyopia getting worse. Or translated into English, I'm very short-sighted, but my prescription has drifted slightly again, and the contact lens for my right eye is now too strong because that eye has improved by a quarter of a dioptre or so. The left eye has actually got very slightly worse again, though not enough to need to change prescription. The combination was messing up my focusing.

I've got a pair of trial lenses in right now, and am feeling much more comfortable. I've also got an accurate prescription for reading glasses for both reading distance and computer monitor distance (yes, they're different), so I'll get a pair for reading some time this week. I may feel more like reading now that I've got the prescription sorted out.

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[hrj.livejournal.com]

I don't know about you, but I (as a life-long myopic) found that once the presbyopia started kicking in as well, it progressed much more quickly than I was used to vision-change being. For the first few years after I got my first multi-focal lenses, it seemed like I had to update the prescription yearly. And finally I've more or less given up on having all-in-one glasses. I have my computer glasses for work, and the multi-focals for general getting around, but for book-reading I tend to go naked-eye simply because that's the one that seems to be the hardest to keep up with on the prescription.

The funniest thing is, now that I've have a set of single-focus computer-distance glasses, I find myself fogetting to change them when I leave my desk to go to meetings and whatnot -- and as long as I don't have to deal with projected presentations, I hardly notice. In a pinch, I could even drive safely with them. I'm starting to think that long-distance focus is overrated.

[julesjones]

I think that for now I'm going to stick to trying to keep my contact lenses at my myopia prescription, and use various strengths of reading glasses over them for close work, because the myopia and presbyopia are *both* changing, independently, and the presbyopia varies wildly depending on how tired I am. The glasses-for-when-I'm-not-wearing-contacts can stay as they are for now, until things settle down a bit or they get too strong for distance vision.

I'm glad I never spent money on getting laser surgery, but then the reason I didn't was because my myopia prescription isn't all that stable anyway. Now that I've had presbyopia kick in at a fairly young age -- well, I'd have probably had five to eight years out of the laser surgery without having to go back to glasses for some things anyway.