progressive lens

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Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Rita, you don't need the progressives for officiating, only you need them to check the book. You should tell your optometrist that you need a single vision Rx for officiating. Or, as others have suggested, single vision contacts would work. There are situations where people with astigmatism, like Texas Aggies has, can't wear contacts or would need torics. In laymen's terms, astigmatism means that your cornea is shaped like a football rather than a basketball.



Lasik won't help you when you get to the point that you need bifocals/progressives. As we get older (by the time most people are 50), our eyes lose the ability to focus as an item moves closer to your eyes. It's known as accommodation. Lasik can't do anything for that as it has nothing to do with reshaping the cornea. That's why we all need help reading as we get older.

But it still fixes the other part of the problem that you'd need the single vision lenses for...as someone who wore contacts for over 15 years, it's not a lot of fun, it's expensive, and even the disposables do damage to your eyes that will eventually mean you can't wear contacts anymore.