I wore CFS for many years as I’m slightly short-sighted before discovering the joys of contact lenses. I did speak to a doctor regarding corrective surgery but he said that was likely to make me long-sighted as I got older so I’d simply be changing one form of correction for another.
For those getting long in the tooth may I suggest the path I followed, suggested at by Fareastdriver - which is monovision.
I wasn't allowed to get my eyes layered whilst in the RAF, it was before the rules changed. I also found contact lens unusable because I have dry eyes.
When I left I thought about laser for many years and kept putting it off because of the complications dry eyes can bring, and also the fact that I would be substituting varifocals for reading glasses.
I eventually saw a specialist in Harley Street who sold me on monovision - which is having the dominant eye fully corrected for distance and the other semi-corrected to provide short distance.
It did require a short test with glasses to that prescription to make sure my brain was OK with it, and it was. For a short time things look fuzzy in one eye, then the brain clicks onto what is happening and every thing looks fine.
Specialist opined that, all things being well, I'd never need reading glasses. I do have a pair of glasses which fully correct both eyes for night driving as it does reportedly affect depth perception, but I've never had a problem.
Only thing I carry is a small folding magnifying glass for very small print on bottles, but books and magazines are just fine.
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