Seniors

I have natural monocular vision and use one eye for reading and one eye for driving. I have never had to have glasses for either. My vision in my driving eye is 20/40 or better, which seems to be the DMV's limit for driving without glasses. The thing my opthamologist is telling me that is confusing me is that unless I get the toroid lens I will have to wear glasses in the future for driving, specifically for driving. He is telling me that if I get the regular lens Medicare pays for, corrected for driving distance, I will have to wear glasses for driving. Since I have driven all my life without glasses with my natural lens and with my slight astigmatism, it makes no sense to me that I would have to have glasses for driving in the future if my eyes are corrected to be the same or better than they are now, minus fixing the slight astigmatism. I have been going to this ophthalmologist for 10 years and I have been happy with him, but this saying I have to pay for a toroid lens or wear glasses for driving kind of sounds like upselling to me.