You can buy many types of sunglasses off the net with diopter sections at
the bottom for about $30 pr. The ones I buy are Stone Creek. wrap around and
many of our members and those in the VGA have bought them.
http://www.amazon.com/Sunglasses-low-profile-wrap-around-magnification-directions/dp/B00598WS4E
You can also get yellow lens for those dull days (so you can see the
themals!).
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From: Niall Doherty
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 10:50 AM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Contact lenses, laser surgery etc
Bernie
I started wearing reading glasses at 40 year of age and by my early 50s I
needed them for
distance as well. Now I take about a +2 for far and +4 for near. Like you I
found wearing glasses
full time a nuisance but neither would I consider laser, which is often not
very effective for
presbyopia/long-sightedness (and I know someone who was the one in a
thousand that
experiences severe complications).
I now wear single vision soft contact lenses for distance and supplement
them with reading glasses
for near vision. In the glider I wear plain sunglasses with an intermediate
bi-focal section for
panel/map-reading - I had those made by an optometrist, but you can buy
cheap little magnifying
stickers which would do just as well.
There is a bit of "learning curve" with wearing contacts but after a few
weeks I found putting them
on and taking them off a breeze. I use monthlys and most days wear them from
just after I get up
until just before I go to bed. Eye hygiene is important though - no swimming
or showering in them,
clean hands before touching; and use really good lens cleaner - peroxide
based is best.
If I want to swim I keep some daily disposables handy, which are fine but
not quite as comfortable
as the super-soft monthly lenses.
Except for the mono-vision option, multi-focal lenses are expensive and not
everyone adapts to
them. My sister uses mono-vision (one eye distance and one eye near) and has
no problems, but I
have doubts about how it might affect peripheral vision and distance
perception for flying.
I also have mild astigmatism, 0.25 dioptres, not corrected by the contacts
but, except when
reading something really small, I don't notice it.
Regards
Niall Doherty
On Sun, Aug 18th, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Bernie Baer <bb...@internode.on.net>
wrote:
For a year or so now I have been using bi-focal glasses for driving at
night, and the same prescription in sunglasses for flying, fly fishing and
driving on sunny days. On a recent fishing trip to a remote Pacific atoll
I spoke to a guy who had had laser eye surgery to correct his long
sightedness who was very happy with the results. On my return, I did some
research and noted that the laser surgeons reccommend using contact lenses
before having the surgery to check how you will respond to having
'monovision'. I then did some more reading on contact lenses and was happy
to read that they are available in various bifocal configurations (see
http://www.allaboutvision.com/over40/multifocalcls.htm )
I am now interested in perhaps getting contact lenses (cheaper than laser
surgery) and then being able to choose from a much bigger (and potentially
cheaper) range of regular sunglasses.
Has anyone taken this route? I would be interested to hear your comments.
Thanks, Bernie.
PS I also have 'reading glasses' for reading and computer, but can't see
the TV properly with either those or the driving glasses. Not to mention
my workshop glasses, and $2 knot tying glasses for fishing when I can't
afford to drop my proper glasses.
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