Have you ever thought about how people fight the aging process?
A lot of us in the baby boomer generation and perhaps a little younger, are fighting the aging process in one way or another. And one thing that afflicts almost all of us as we age is presbyopia, which means “old eye”. Nice, huh. Nature intended for us to see both near and far, but as we age we lose the ability to focus on close objects.
So that means we need to compensate for our loss. This means either reading glasses, or bifocals in either glasses or contact lenses.
My older sister has always looked younger than her years. I am often asked if she is my younger sister. She eats well and exercises regularly, she also enjoys life. She is not obsessed with the way she looks, nor does she constantly talk about living healthy.
But recently I commented on how well she could read small print. She told me that she had started wearing bifocal contact lenses and that after a period of adjustment she was able to see very well. I have had to use reading glasses now for quite a few years, I had tried bifocals years ago and decided that they were not for me.
So, I asked her about the bifocal contact lenses because I had heard that they were very difficult to wear. She said that she had adjusted to them very quickly. They had tried her on two different lenses one for focusing on distant vision and one for close vision, but she did not like that concept at all. She felt that with that set up she was not seeing anything very well.
The bifocal contact lenses are weighted in the bottom so that they set on your eye in the correct manner. She said they were more expensive than the disposable contacts that she had been wearing for several years, but she thought the system was preferable to wearing contacts and then carrying reading glasses with her.
In her work she needs to be able to read often and didn’t like the idea of having to put glasses on and off to read. For her the bifocal contact lenses are working well and not having to dig out her reading glasses contributes to her young looks.
Keep in mind, so many who wear bifocal glasses keep them perched towards the tip of the nose and the head bobs up and down, depending on whether the person was looking close up or far away. If that doesn’t make you look a little older, I don’t know what does.So bifocal contact lenses are becoming more and more popular.
Someone new to wearing contact lenses or bifocal contact lenses should expect a reasonable time period to adjust to this new experience. But it should be well worth it.
So, go to the gym, the health food store, then the ophthalmologist to check on bifocal contact lenses.