I've only gone and tried a multifocal contact lens and I'm here and happy to tell the tale. Just the other week I was scouring my office diary to find the best available route for a journey across London using the London Underground map in an old Ambassador diary. No matter how I held the diary about my person, I was unable to read the illegible jumble of names that blurred around the tangle of underground lines. I was stumped and knew I could no longer put off the inevitable. I put the diary back in the drawer and accessed a larger tube map online and then decided, warily, to try some multifocal lenses. Now several days into my trial of Sauflon's Clariti one-day multifocals http://www.opticianonline.net/Articles/2012/05/04/29409/New+vision+for+presbyopia.htm I can safely say I'm a convert. The lenses are as comfortable as the previous Clariti one days I've tried and the all-round vision is excellent. Having had some discomfort of late with monthly and two-weekly silicone hydrogel contact lenses, it's nice to be putting in fresh new lenses each morning as well. But the main difference is that I no longer have to shuffle pages around the desk and I can now read the small station names on the offending tube map without magnification. I'm getting older, but no-one really need to know for a while yet.
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