Just exactly how do bifocal contact lenses work and more importantly will they work for you?
When you have problems reading close up and you can see much better by holding your reading material away from you then you likely have presbopia and will need a pair of bifocal glasses or bifocal contact lenses to help you see better.
Nearly everyone will at some point suffer from presbyopia because it’s a condition of the eye that comes with age.
What happens is that as we get older our eyes become less elastic and they lose some of their ability to change focus.
It wasn’t all that long ago that the majority of people thought the only way around presbyopia was with a pair of those reader glasses you can pick up at the drugstore or by getting a prescription for bifocal glasses.
Bifocal contacts came along and they have actually been around for quite awhile, the trouble was they were not all that comfortable.
Finally new technology has made it so that bifocal contact lenses work to provide clear and comfortable vision.
People with presbyopia get the clear, comfortable vision they need from two types of lenses bifocal and multifocal.
Bifocal contact lenses work in a similar way to bifocal glasses. There are two prescriptions in one lense and your eye shifts between them as you eyes glance up and down.
Multifocal contact lenses use a series of powers within a lens one of which is bifocal. The shift is more level because its gradual and doesn’t skip around or “image jump” like it does in a bifocal lense.
Both bifocal and multifocal lenses can include other options including whether you want UV protection, daily disposables or a tinted color.
An exciting development has been bifocal toric contact lenses. These particular bifocal contacts work if you also have astigmatism to correct an irregularly shaped eye.
Try a few different brands and you will find that bifocal contacts that work.
A little persistence will go a long way so don’t give up too soon.