My Doctor is not impressed with the variable focal length lens, said the only problems he had ever had were with that lens and refuses to use it now. I have heard others say they like it, but no one has ever raved about it. It is marketed as a Cadillac lens, I just didn't get a good vibe about it.

I had eyes corrected with slight mono-vision and absolutely love it. First eye was for distance and is/was great. About two years later the other cataract got bad enough and I discussed with Dr. - wanted to try and eliminate any contacts/glasses. So he stepped it in, but slightly farther than arms length focal length - little farther than normal reading length. With that "close" vision eye I can read almost everything I want without glasses. Very small print or very low light and I slap on a pair of readers - but very rarely - maybe once a month I run into something that I can't read.

This is one of the best decisions I ever made. Not having glasses/contacts of any kind is a dream come true.

If you have worn contacts, ask Dr. to prescribe a lens that will correct your eye to whatever close vision you would like to have with the new lens. Wear it a couple weeks to see if you can get your brain/eyes to adjust. Some people can't, but good to know beforehand. My Dr. wouldn't wouldn't do the mono vision surgery without someone going through this test.

Dr. also said (but I haven't done it yet) that he could prescribe a correction contact for my close vision eye for golf, football games etc. if I occasionally wanted both eyes for distance, but I haven't felt the need.

Good luck with whatever you choose.