If you do swim in your lenses, you should wear goggles over them and you should disinfect them immediately afterwards. Regular eye exams are important not only to check your prescription but also to evaluate the health of your eyes. This is especially important for contact lens wearers because the contacts could be causing damage to your eyes without necessarily causing any obvious symptoms. Is my doctor required by law to release my contact lens prescription. Your doctor is not required to release an expired prescription and in any case we would be unable to dispense contacts from an expired prescription.
Some doctors are more ready to comply with local laws than others.
I wear contact lenses and in order for me to read, I have to wear reading glasses over them. Yes, the most common option is called monovision where one eye is corrected for viewing distant objects and the other eye is corrected for reading and close work. Monovision is a good solution for some people, but not everbody can successfully adapt to the arrangement. Another alternative is bifocal contact lenses which are available in both rigid gas permeable or soft lens designs. However, these are typically very expensive.