Tons of people across the world are accustomed to contact lenses during the day and a pair of glasses during the night. The question is why? Well, when people begin to reach their 40s, they start to develop symptoms of an eye condition that is known as presbyopia. Presbyopia is simply what happens when near and far-sightedness overlap one another, leading to difficulty focusing.
The good news is that multi-focal contact lenses help to correct any form of presbyopia. Just as bifocal lenses in eyeglasses would, multi-focal lenses have numerous levels of vision power used to correct the presbyopia. There are two types of multi-focal contact lenses that you can purchase. Simultaneous lenses are said to be more difficult to adjust to, based solely on the realization that your brain may take a while to notice which items around are fully clear. However, the Translating multi-focal contact lenses are much easier for your mind to wrap around. These lenses only contain two distinct areas of power, much like bifocal glasses. Thus making it easier for your brain to focus on the material seen.
You may also purchase alternative multi-focal contact lenses, called manumission lenses. These lenses are called Monovision because they can specifically be tailored to each eye, by your eye care professional. Due to the fact that our brain takes one image from each eye and composites one picture, when you try these new lenses your brain will take time in order to adjust. Your eye care professional will tailor your dominant eye for closer objects, whereas your other eye will be tailored for focusing on further away objects.
Don’t be surprised if it takes a week to ten days to fully adjust to a new set of multi-focal contacts. If you are new to wearing contact lenses, you have added job of just learning how to put in and take out the lenses. If you are new, it can take up to an hour to accomplish this task. With the added adjustment of learning how to focus and use the lens on different objects. This may sound simple enough until you are trying to navigate steps for the first time or read a passage from a book and then have to focus to a large TV screen. It is easier said than done the first couple of times.
Thus, with any form of multi-focal contact lenses you choose, your brain will need time to adjust but those few weeks are well worth it.