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| # Posted 2008-04-17 03:18:48 | |
| JohnL: | I did something similar at home once but decided to leave the one contact in for a while. I had just read a little bit about monocular vision where one eye can see well for distance and one can see well for up close - and apparently the brain gets used to using the appropriate eye for the task at hand. Depth perception suffers though which has all kinds of drawbacks I think. But laser eye surgeons do offer this type of vision as an option for elders who want to try to get by without reading glasses - so the experiment with one contact was interesting - but it did feel a little weird. |
| # Posted 2008-04-17 03:31:48 | |
| Cristina: | Luckily my right eye is my good one, and the contact doesn't do a great job of correcting, anyway (imperfect astigmatism alignment). It's sort of weird, but at least I can see the computer screen okay. |
| # Posted 2008-04-17 08:23:11 | |
| simon: | I know that, it happens from time to time. It feels like a small dust just makes its way between the eye and the contact - totally unnerving.
My 2 cents: a little bottle of artificial tears (useful also in dry air conditions) - does not necessarily help in this case but provides some relief - and never ever ride with contacts without sport glasses (I lost a contact one time simply because of the wind in the eyes) |
| # Posted 2008-04-17 09:47:27 | |
| jjcote: | Get used to the one contact situation — in 20 years you'll probably have to orienteer like that. |
| # Posted 2008-04-17 09:55:27 | |
| Cristina: | Yeah, should have had glasses on...
J-J, negative attitudes about anything other than dogs will not be tolerated here. I will not age. |
| # Posted 2008-04-17 20:24:49 | |
| maprunner: | "One contact "as you age is not required anymore. I wear bifical contacts, which work great for me. (BTW, I needed bificals because my eyes were already mismatched! Apparently I went 40 years with one eye seeinng far, one eyee seeing near. The both started to get old at the same time:) |
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