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I suggest to try out lenses. At the beginning it's a little bit difficult to put them in or to remove them, but (at least for me) they work much better than glasses.

If you are lucky and the lenses work well for you, you won't even notice that you have them inside (except for the fact that your vision is much better).

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Contact lenses are good for certain issues with eyes, but not others -- at least around here, they're worn a lot more by short-sighted people than long-sighted people, and the article is definitely describing someone who's long-sighted.

The problem is that if you need to correct your vision for close-up work, a lens that corrects sufficiently may not be suitable for general purpose vision. In this case, you need to use glasses as you'll need to take them off when you get up from your computer, or you'll need bi- or vari-focals.

True. I wear contact lenses to correct for my general near-sightedness. And then I wear reading glasses on top of them when sitting for long periods at a computer.

The only problem I see with lenses is the constant cleaning and the extra care that they require.

Then get dailies. They tend to get uncomfortable after about 8 hours (the ones I use anyway), but if you're going out after work, and you can get by without them, all you have to do is throw them out.

They also don't play well with air conditioning, which tends to be prevalent in offices.

I went back to glasses anyway, because I missed the way they look on my face.

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