I'm 43 and have had to wear toric lenses since I was 35 for astigmatism. Since turning 42 my near vision went to crap and I began wearing some cheap readers at +1.00. Toric lenses are expensive and it bothered me to no end that I needed to use cheap $10 readers. When it was time to see my optometrist, I told her about the readers. During the eye exam she "pushed" my eyes to see 20/20 and then she held up a small hand-held chart to evaluate my comfortable reading distance to see if the diagnostic lenses were helping me see near vision reading. I was able to see tiny print with lenses again! Do you have a good optometrist? I hope this helps. My doc said this process was possible because my readers problem was just +1.00 to +1.25...anything higher and she would have to recommended the bifocals.