does anyone know if you can get contacts just for close up so when you look up they are clear? my long vision is fine its just close up i need +2 glasses but im sick of taking glasses off and on all day!!

Difficult one. For some time I have been using successfully what is called monovision ie one lense prescription is for close up and the other for distance (or no lense if distance is fine) if required the brain then is able to work this out and the result is what you are asking for (clever little brain)
However it can take afew weeks to get used to properly depends on you and it the prescriptions ar too different the brain cant always manage. The only thing you can do is talk to a good optician and give it ago
You can also get bifocal contacts but apparently not many people get on with them and if you distance vision is fine the proberbly and right for you.
I know jsut how you feel after 30years of lenses I am using just glasses atm because distance is rubbish in my case close is more or less ok but with lenses in I cant see fine detail and then we get into the glasses for close over your lenses and take them off for distance etc......
Oh getting old is pain

Getting old - don't I know it !.
After years of wearing contact lenses for distance, it seemed that almost overnight I couldn't see anything close up with them !. Reading and computer work is impossible. I now wear my glasses more and more for distance and I've turned into one of those people who wear them on top of their head most of the time so I can read !.
I think I'll get rid of contacts soon as I rarely wear them now. 

My cry also..........
I wear 24/7 ones but now take them out every night so that I can read in bed 'without' glasses, so this defeats the object really.
I couldn't manage without the lenses for driving tv etc, so certainly wont give them up just invest in more readers..

KAren

Thats my problem arched although if I dont have contacts in I can manage close up perfectly like poloaussie its only when I have contacts in 'cos they do things to your close vison the world goes pearshaped !

So far have become a fan of specsavers and now have 4 pairs of different glasses so if I have to wear them at least they are up todate and match what I am wearing.
omg now I sound like that bloke on the tv doing bargain hunt !!

Hi tina s, my optician solved this by providing two different prescriptions--a weaker version for every day use (e.g. I can still read without having to hold a newspaper 6 feet away :( and a stronger version for things like driving, especially at night. It can be a real pain if you have to switch back and forth. Until the puppy ate my varifocals and prescription sunglasses, I had 6 different bits of kit to lug about so that I could appreciate the world as more than a benign blur: my ordinary glasses to address a lifelong myopia, the varifocals, two types of prescription sunglasses and the two contact lens prescriptions. I find I see best with glasses perched on top of my head.

Oh how normal you all sound!  :-)  :-) 

I feel so much better knowing that I am not the only person carrying a suitcase around with all my different "seeing" kit in it.  :-)

lol--of course the blur effect comes into its own with puppies and children :)