TK,
Find a more interested and understanding optometrist who will take the time to explain your options properly........i.e. stay away from the chain stores.....those guys are on commision/'capture rates' to produce a script in 16 minutes.........
The problem with contact lenses or Lasik or other 'refractive surgery' for 'over forties' is that if your distance vision is corrected perfectly [which I think is the best option ,as it gives you the best depth perception, needed for example for night landings] then you have the same problem anyone with lifelong perfect vision will have [like me].........you will need reading glasses as well.......hit me like a ton of bricks the morning Iturned 46.......and I have long arms! But a trendy little pair of 1/2 glasses [as well] soon solves that problem.
Flopt [CPL,optometrist]