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polisciprof

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Joined: 25 Aug 2007
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Extreme Farsightedness
Posted: 08-25-07 23:52pm

I have extreme farsightedness--my contact persciption is +22 in each eye. I usually wear contacts as opposed to glasses because I develop a sever case of dry eye when I read with the glasses for any length of time. But, as you can imagine, such thick RGP contacts aren't all that comfortable and often irritate my eyes. Vision-wise the glasses are better for straight-away vision but, of course, the contacts give better peripheral vision and create less distortions. Does anybody know, from a health perspective, whether it is better for someone in my situation to wear glasses or contacts? Various eye doctors have said that there is no real difference, but I'm skeptical.

In general, if there are any forum participants who have extreme farsightedness I would be interested to hear how they have dealt with discomfort caused by RGP lenses or problems caused by wearing thick glasses.

Thanks in advance.
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