If I choose to have monovision, does that mean I will never need reading glasses?
No. Presbyopia continues to worsen as you get older, whether or not you have monovision. At some point, the presbyopia may be so bad that reading glasses will be necessary. Still, there is a benefit to having the monovision in that there won’t be a complete dependence on glasses for things up close. Larger print will still be readable without glasses, and things slightly farther away (like computers and dashboards of cars) will still be readable. Without monovision, even these things would be blurry without reading glasses. For this reason, patients usually don’t “give up” their monovision as they get older. They still read better with the monovision than they would if both eyes are corrected for distance, even though for certain things, reading glasses become necessary.
No. Presbyopia continues to worsen as you get older, whether or not you have monovision. At some point, the presbyopia may be so bad that reading glasses will be necessary. Still, there is a benefit to having the monovision in that there won’t be a complete dependence on glasses for things up close. Larger print will still be readable without glasses, and things slightly farther away (like computers and dashboards of cars) will still be readable. Without monovision, even these things would be blurry without reading glasses. For this reason, patients usually don’t “give up” their monovision as they get older. They still read better with the monovision than they would if both eyes are corrected for distance, even though for certain things, reading glasses become necessary. Click here to email Dr.
No. Presbyopia continues to worsen as you get older, whether or not you have monovision. At some point, the presbyopia may be so bad that reading glasses will be necessary. Still, there is a benefit to having the monovision because there won’t be a complete dependence on glasses for things up close. Larger print will still be readable without glasses, and things slightly farther away (like computers and dashboards of cars) will still be readable. Without monovision, even these things would be blurry without reading glasses. For this reason, patients usually don’t “give up” their monovision as they get older. They still read better with the monovision than they would if both eyes are corrected for distance, even though for certain things, reading glasses become necessary.
No. Presbyopia continues to worsen as you get older, regardless of monovision. At some point, the presbyopia may be so bad that reading glasses will be necessary. Still, there is a benefit to having the monovision in that there won’t be a complete dependence on glasses for things up close. Larger print will still be readable without glasses, and things slightly farther away (like computers and dashboards of cars) will too. Without monovision, even these things would be blurry without reading glasses. For this reason, patients usually don’t give up their monovision as they get older. They still read more easily with the monovision than they would if both eyes were corrected for distance, even though for certain things, reading glasses become necessary.
No. Presbyopia continues to worsen as you get older, whether or not you have monovision. At some point, the presbyopia may be so bad that reading glasses will be necessary. Still, there is a benefit to having the monovision in that there won’t be a complete dependence on glasses for viewing things up close. For this reason, patients usually don’t “give up” their monovision as they get older. They still read better with the monovision than they would if both eyes are corrected for distance, even though for certain things, reading glasses become necessary.
