FLAV8R writes:

I don't know if it was coincidence or if the contacts caused me to lose
a considerable amount of distance vision.

It depends on the type of correction the contacts provide. If they
compensate for poor accommodation (e.g., presbyopia), their constant
presence may encourage the loss of accommodation power since your eyes
need no longer strain to see objects at certain distances. When you
remove the correction, you find that things that might have been clear
before without contacts/glasses no longer are.

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