LBL-NVU-PIB r3, Patient Instruction Booklet
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longer these symptoms persist, the poorer your prognosis for successful adaptation. You
should avoid visually demanding situations during the initial adaptation period. It is
recommended that you first wear these contact lenses in familiar situations, which are not
visually demanding. For example, it might be better to be a passenger rather than a driver of
an automobile during the first few days of lens wear. It is recommended that you only drive
with monovision correction if you pass your state drivers license requirements with
monovision correction.
• Some monovision patients will never be fully comfortable functioning under low levels of
illumination, such as driving at night. If this happens, you may want to discuss with your Eye
Care Professional having additional contact lenses prescribed so that both eyes are corrected
for distance when sharp distance binocular vision is required.
• Some monovision patients require supplemental spectacles to wear over the monovision
correction to provide the clearest vision for critical tasks. You should discuss this with your Eye
Care Professional.
• It is important that you follow your Eye Care Professional’s suggestions for adaptation to
monovision contact lens therapy. You should discuss any concerns that you may have during
and after the adaptation period.
• The decision to be fit with monovision correction is most appropriately left to the Eye Care
Professional in conjunction with you, after carefully considering and discussing your needs.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MULTIFOCAL OR MULTIFOCAL TORIC WEARER
• You should be aware that as with any type of lens correction, there are advantages and
compromises to multifocal OR multifocal toric contact lens therapy. The benefit of clear near
vision in straight ahead and upward gaze that is available with multifocal OR multifocal toric
contact lenses may be accompanied by a vision compromise that may reduce your visual
acuity and depth perception for distance and near tasks. Some patients have experienced
difficulty adapting to it.
Symptoms, such as mild blurred vision, dizziness, headaches and a feeling of slight
imbalance, may last for a brief minute or for several weeks as adaptation takes place. The
longer these symptoms persist, the poorer your prognosis for successful adaptation. You
should avoid visually demanding situations during the initial adaptation period. It is
recommended that you first wear these contact lenses in familiar situations, which are not
visually demanding. For example, it might be better to be a passenger rather than a driver of
an automobile during the first few days of lens wear. It is recommended that you only drive
with multifocal or multifocal toric correction if you pass your state drivers license requirements
with multifocal or multifocal toric correction.
• Some multifocal or multifocal toric patients will never be fully comfortable functioning under
low levels of illumination, such as driving at night. If this happens, you may want to discuss
with your Eye Care Professional having additional contact lenses prescribed so that both eyes
are corrected for distance when sharp distance binocular vision is required.
• Some multifocal or multifocal toric patients require supplemental spectacles to wear over the
multifocal or multifocal toric correction to provide the clearest vision for critical tasks. You
