Glasses or contacts while riding your VFR?

About the only time I wear glasses is when I am driving a car or truck because the A/C dries out the contacts, or when I am on the computer, for the same reason. I also find that glasses fog up too easily in my use of them. At the best of times, I don't like wearing glasses because I can't get a pair that does not give me a headache. Something in how they touch my head, especially if I sweat a little. Now that I also wear hearing aids, they are just an absolute pain in the ass because the slip off when I bend down working in the shop on the bike.

Here's a tid bit for you. I wear bifocals. You can get bifocal contacts for normal eyes. But I too have astigmatism in both my eyes. So I have to wear what is called Toric contacts, which are shaped to fit the irregular eye. You can't get bifocal toric contacts.

My supplier told me to try something that may or may not work. It may take some time to just get used to it or may never work at all. Put one contact for distance in one eye, and one for reading in the other. I got a free trial pair so what the hell. I put them in and it was absolutely instant that my eyes adjusted to that. Day to day wearing of these and reading with them, I would never know that one eye is fro reading and one for distance.

I am developing cataracts so surgery some time down the line is likely going to be required . They implant a lens while they do that. I am just going to get them to implant prescription lenses. My eye sight has not changed in about 10 years so I think, other then the cataracts, my vision has stabilized.

 

Maybe when you get the replacement lens' for cataracts they will have cop models for lighting up speeders.

 

laser eye surgery FTW. Best decision ever

 

I clicked on the "Other" category....
Might be just because I am told that I like being different, and find lots of ways to do it.

My distance vision is not perfect anymore, and that is a bit irritating at times. I used to be the first person in a group to read something as distance decreased.
But it is still good enough. I have a DOT Physical card, which indicates "none needed" for corrective lenses. I don't use any correction for driving.
However, that does not mean I can't see better with some lens or another, because I carry the weakest readers I could find. They do help at night, to read highway signs from much further away. Note that wearing those for even 1/4 or 1/2 an hour has my vision screwed up to "not good" for a while after they are removed. So I can't really just put them on and wear them anyway.

Here is the really unusual part, I think: A couple of months ago I began wearing regular reading glasses while riding. No, I don't look through them, they just hang out pretty far along on the bridge of my nose. They are there so I can quickly glance down for a look at instruments, or map, or GPS style thing. Without readers, anything within an arm's length is difficult to focus on. I can transition quickly in both directions between close/aided vision and far/unaided vision.

I have been considering Lasik, but I worry about messing around with a part of me that is not really broken.

 

Say what?