Varifocal Contact Lenses

[237SJ]

Does anyone wear these? I know there have been questions on here in the past but I was wondering if there have been improvements. I'm short sighted and long sighted (I think using the laptop/tablet/mobile phone has made it worse). I tried on someone's varifocal glasses recently and was amazed at the improvement. I don't want to wear glasses though, so was wondering about the lenses. Off to work now so will look in when I get to where I'm going

[TheChair]

Varifocal contacts don't work in the same way as varifocal lenses.
With varifocal lenses, you simply need to train your eyes to look through the correct part of the lens to obtain the best focus.
With varifocal contacts, you can't move your eyes in relation to the lenses, so you are permanently looking through all of the lens - ie the parts that produce the correct focus and the parts that don't.
Instaed you have to train your brain to ignore the out of focus images and only interpret the in-focus part.
Some people have no problem with this, but in others it can induce headaches and poor results.
I, for one, failed entirely to adapt to varifocal contacts.

[mrs_overall]

Mr Overall has them and thinks they are the best thing since sliced bread. They did take some getting used to though.
A friend of ours tried them and gave up as he couldn't get used to them.
You can have a trial with them if you ask your optician

[237SJ]

Thanks for the replies. I might see if the optician will let me try them. I would get my eyes lasered but it only works for the myopia

[waterboatman]

I have them. Photochromic too. I find them excellent. Not cheap, but worth it.