I have moderate myopic and my dr at "the eye center" recommended monovision since I have recently started using reading glasses for small print. He gave me a pair of contacts to try it out (it has been 2 days) and everything so far seems ok with it. They are going to use customvue myopic correction on my dominate eye and just lasik myopic correction on the near eye. Has anyone tried this, is contacts a good indication if you will be able to take it permanently with surgery? how is the mid range vision with this? I am set to go back in 2 weeks to tell them how I like it.

perfecteyes,
I can't tell you anything from my own experience. Only from what I have read of other's experiences on this website. Roughly a year ago, someone had it done and discussed their experience on this board. So, perhaps your best bet would be to scroll down to about a year ago and see if you can find the posts about monovision. Just in case no one who has had it recently is around on this board to respond to you. All I can remember of what I read about it was that there were varying opinions. Some were happy with it, others had a really tough time getting used to the adjustment.

Take care and let us know what you do!

I just had PRK done on both eyes. My right eye is my dominant eye and my left eye is my reading eye. My right eye was done a month ago and my left eye is 2 weeks post op (so it's still trying to stabilize).

I did monovision for a few years with contacts and took to it immediately. I had no problems whatsoever and loved it. So I had it done with my eyes and so far, so good. But I think another few weeks will tell the whole story since I'm still early in my post-op stage.

My left eye was adjusted for 20/100 (as opposed to 20/20 for my right eye). He said this will definately keep my out of reading glasses. Right now, I'm noticing a slight distortion between the two eyes. My right eye is close to 20/25 (and still healing). My left is still worse than 20/100 for the moment. With PRK (instead of lasik) the healing process takes much longer. My eyes should hopefully stabilize in a few more weeks.

I can keep you posted on the progress. Chances are, if you are okay with contacts (monovision), you'll do fine with monovision lasik. Even though my left eye is not quite there yet, I can read pretty well with it. My right eye is good at distance but blurred when trying to read. So hopefully the left eye will heal soon. Right now, the left eye is still a little blurry on distance (it should still see some distance pretty good, even at 20/100).

Let me know what you decide to do.

Thanks, Bowriter I will keep you posted on what I decide, I am still looking into the Dr and practice. I am not sure what the contacts strenghts are but I am able to drive and read without any problems, I am just hoping the surgery is as good.

Let us know what you decide and how you do. You can always get the eye enhanced again if you don't like the monovision. Not sure if they'll pay or you'll pay, but either way, there's always a way to adjust if needed.

Good luck!

I had monovision lasik 9 months ago. I was already doing monovision with my contacts....so I was already used to it. I have not had any trouble since my surgery. If you do OK with the trial contact.....go for it. Beats using reading glasses.
Good Luck!!!

You definately had a bad experience. Most don't have those kinds of problems. Make sure that your doctor keeps in close touch with you. He or she should if you are experiencing those type of problems. They should be very concerned. Most of the time, PRK and lasik goes very well. Every now and then, stuff like this happens.

I wish you the best of luck getting that corrected. Let us know how you are doing.

IamJuliern,

I'm really sorry that you are having such a hard recovery. Can you tell me what corneal edema is? I think that it's swelling, but I'm not sure. I've also had some problems after my surgery (horrible dry eyes and some night vision problems) and I know how difficult it can be to deal with something going wrong.

I would tell anyone considering lasik to make sure and get a thorough consultation and take your time making the decision. Don't rush into it. Some people have a perfect easy recovery and some don't.

Perfecteyes, I used monovision contacts for years and had no problems until I started to lose vision in my reading eye. I went to the doc and he tried several different strengths trying to adjust the vision between both eyes. I was not able to get back to monovision--the difference between the two eyes was too drastic. I finally went with two contacts for distance vision and when I read, I have to add reading glasses, unless I have my contacts out--then I wear bifocals. If I want to thread a needle for extract a splinter, I take out contacts and use no reading glasses. Sometimes it gets confusing. :eek:

I don't know if you would possibly ever develop the change in your reading eye after some time, like I did while using contacts. Anyway, it is something to consider.

Good Luck to you. :)