Andrea, I was far sighted and could not see anything up close, not even the clock beside the bed.  Now I see 20/20 both ways.  Far sighted takes a little more healing time, although you don&#39;t feel any pain or anything, it just takes longer for the eyes to adjust - it was about 2-3 weeks before my far sighted vision returned to normal, but after a week, he put in contacts that stayed in all the time, to correct that and I only had to wear them for a week and by that time, my eyes had adjusted to the correction.  I never felt any pain or dryness or anything from day 1.  I did think briefly about the risk but decided they were minimal enough to take a chance and I am sure glad I did.  I can&#39;t wait to go snorkeling on our next cruise and not have to put the contacts in and then worry about salt water getting under the mask and under my contacts.