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The Mono-vision Myth

What could happen to those who are prescribed mono-vision? All are an automobile accident waiting to happen. For mono-vision to work a person must suppress one eye. Thus, information will be missed (not good for work, sports, or study). Fatigue and nausea in reading may take place. Comprehension will be reduced. Sports skills will diminish or one will have to work harder to achieve the same level. Irritability is likely. Headaches and stomach aches may show. They may become strong willed and or argumentative. One eye may follow the direction of the mono-vision and a stronger prescription may be needed. Oh, yes, 3-D movies are out. Even if mono-vision is dis-continued vision therapy may be necessary to get the eyes to work as a team again. See Judy's story in success stories
If you or anyone you know has been prescribed mono-vision, reach Dr. Henshaw as soon as possible and get on the road to efficient comfortable vision
If you or anyone you know has been prescribed mono-vision, reach Dr. Henshaw as soon as possible and get on the road to efficient comfortable vision

The hypocrisy of mono vision
When we reach our mid forties, as a normal process, we lose our ability to focus our eyes for reading. Thus, we need reading glasses. The condition is called presbyopia. Yet, what does that have to do with mono vision, you ask? Let’s follow an imaginary patient called Susie and Dr. Fred.
When we reach our mid forties, as a normal process, we lose our ability to focus our eyes for reading. Thus, we need reading glasses. The condition is called presbyopia. Yet, what does that have to do with mono vision, you ask? Let’s follow an imaginary patient called Susie and Dr. Fred.
As a teenager, Susie developed a habit of using the right eye to read and the left to view the Promethean (digital chalk board for the older generation). This condition is called anisometropia (one eye has a stronger prescription than the other). Doctor Fred fits Susie with a contact lens for the right eye which is nearsighted to read. Doctor Fred believes that gives her the all-important binocular vision to do better in the classroom and drive. He chose the contact lens because glasses with the right lens with a nearsighted prescription and the left with none, would create discomfort. This is acceptable standard treatment.
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Now fast forward to Susie in her mid forties and the peak earning period of her career. She now because of the natural presbyopia discussed earlier, can’t see her computer screen clearly. She goes to Doctor Fred, who forgetting all he pontificated when Susie was a teenager about binocular vision, removes the right contact lens creating mono vision