Hi. I new to contact lenses, I'm currently on my first day's trial of multi focal contact lenses, my reading is quite good but my distance vision is very blurry, I know it takes times to adjust, but my options didn't say much, he said see how you get on with them, he did check my vision abd adjusted them on my next appointment but you sound so knowledgeable, I wish you were my Eye Doctor, but I'm in the UK. Thanks for all the help.

Discovering that I needed reading glasses was a horrible day, and the eye doctor seemed to deliver the news with glee. There definitely needs to be more sensitivity from doctors when a new patient enters the office. The doctor that I went to didn't even mention the possibility of contacts and told me I needed to get progressives. I didn't want progressives, so I left. As a result, I went home and did some research, learned about monovision and multifocal options as well as lens replacements around age 60+. I waited almost two years before going back to the eye doctor. I went to someone else obviously. I asked about multifocal, and we tried a fitting but I wasn't able to see any distance...like none, so I'm currently trying monovision. Distance is fine but computer / close up is touchy. That being said, I'm only on day three! I think it takes 1-2 weeks for most people to adjust, and the doctor thinks it could take longer because my left eye was lazy (though still functional). I would love to just find a multifocal solution. I just hope that my brain will adjust for close on the monovision...but it sounds like you prefer to avoid it.