Ok I've reached that age(46) where normal writing has suddenly started to be printed much smaller than it used to be! , I'm fine with distances and with driving - its purely reading.
I don't normally like using large multi's but the " Buy 1 get 1 Free " sounds very good offer , and the ever reliable "Boots" seems a name to be trusted - but would it better to use a local independant and pay for the knowledge, after all they must still be offering something extra to retain their customers - any reommendations in Weybridge Surrey.
I know one can get a presrciption, then buy online - but I don't know anyione who's done it and I like to have someone to moan too if required .
Finally - where is the best place to buy a decent pair of sunglasses - it used to be Cyprus, but I didin't think they were that cheap when I looked last month - Off to Portugal next week - is duty Free outlets MUCH cheaper
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>>Ok I've reached that age(46) where normal writing has suddenly started to be printed much smaller
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My optician used to say that is normal for a white european to need specs about that age.
He would be more concerned if not needed.
Can you read the car instruments OK at night ?
Re sun glasses it is normally suggested UV400 is what you should get
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunglasses
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Well, you should have your eyes tested if you haven't done so within the last 2 years. However it sounds like you just have the typical middle aged problem of not being able to focus close up & if that is the case a pair of "off the shelf" reading glasses that you can pick up at the supermarket will do the job fine.
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>> However it sounds like you just have the typical middle aged problem of
>> not being able to focus close up & if that is the case a pair
>> of "off the shelf" reading glasses that you can pick up at the supermarket will
>> do the job fine.
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+1
They are only magnifying glasses and no need to spend more than a fiver.
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>>if that is the case a pair of "off the shelf" reading glasses that you can pick up at the supermarket will do the job fine.
Provided that both your eyes need the same correction.
Mine do not so £1 shop glasses are no use to me.
Get your eyes properly tested. EVERY one should do this regularly!
In extreme cases it may well save your sight and or your life.
It is the only non invasive way of examining your blood vessels and can identify other problems.
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>> Well, you should have your eyes tested if you haven't done so within the last
>> 2 years. However it sounds like you just have the typical middle aged problem of
>> not being able to focus close up & if that is the case a pair
>> of "off the shelf" reading glasses that you can pick up at the supermarket will
>> do the job fine.
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Skip me ol' mate, you are talking cobblers son. No two eyes are the same and if you don't get it right the strain (often undetected) by the victim can play havoc with you. A good independent is worth that little extra. Make sure that you see (sic) the principal of the company and not a locum and that way you should develop a relationship. Eyes are quite important. It's not like buying lager cos you can't afford Ale!!!!
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>>Eyes are quite important. It's not like buying lager cos you can't afford Ale!!!!
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If you can afford a little extra, a charity that I support and also major corporations support
www.orbis.org.uk/Default.aspx?cid=9250&lang=1
Support from cos at th e bottom
orbis.org/blindness.aspx?lang=1
They even have an ancient flight simulator , the only one still in existance, for this old aircraft and it is maintained by volunteers. A newer aircraft has been donated but it takes two years to convert it.
Sorry about thread drift.
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"Skip me ol' mate, you are talking cobblers son. No two eyes are the same and if you don't get it right the strain (often undetected) by the victim can play havoc with you. A good independent is worth that little extra. Make sure that you see (sic) the principal of the company and not a locum and that way you should develop a relationship. Eyes are quite important. It's not like buying lager cos you can't afford Ale!!!!"
Errr, thats why i said that he should have his eyes tested if he hadn't done so !
Sorry if that was a bit difficult for you to understand !
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Maybe you should re-read the post that I replied to.
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Whatever, Mr Know It All - but i am not your mate or your son !
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>> Whatever, Mr Know It All - but i am not your mate or your son
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>> ooH!
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From Skip's profile, I assume we used to know him as someone else?
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In my experience you don't get much extra going to a small independent except another £100 on the bill. Get your eyes tested with whoever you want but go to Boots or Specsavers to buy the glasses. I used to spend a lot on frames but quite honestly there is little difference in quality between a frame costing £50 and one costing £500 apart from a designer label although opticians would like to convince you otherwise.
Since I tend to trash my specs in a year or so I now normally buy two for one at Specsavers for around £90. I normally buy one with clear glass and one pair with tinted lenses (I like polarised) for driving
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Anyone tried that laser thing? I need Sainsbiury's £11.99 special +1s for reading these days but still have pretty good distance vision.
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Laser is for distance vision correction I'm sure.
The reason you can't focus so well as you age is probably the lens becoming a bit stiffer so the newspaper slowly gets held further and further from your face until you've got your arms fully outstretched.
Get some cheapos but at least have an eye test to exclude other problems.
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Just about to order my third set of varifocals from www.optical4less.com.
Frames are a lot more sturdy, and the optician couldn't tell what they equate to in the "field of view" con whereby the sides are apparently fuzzy unless you spend an arm and a leg - mine don;t duffer at all from that so I guess they equate to the highest level. Titanium frames too!
These will cost me c £150 with fairly high indexed lenses.
Used them before numerous times, when teh dollar was stronger they were ridiculously cheap.
Tesco wanted about £280 for two pairs but I couldn't just have one pair for half the price...and the frames didn't feel very strong
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the price of laser eye surgery has been £395 per eye for at least 10 years now according to the recent adverts, how do they manage to keep the prices down?
ive been wearing specs for about 10 years now and im fed up with them, i have to use bi-focals for daytime running and another pair for computor, im seriously thinking of going down the contact lense route, does any one here have contacts and are they any better?
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I wear specs and can't do contacts as my eyes are too dry.
I asked about laser surgery and what put me off was that the prices are from £395. The actual cost can run in to thousands.
More worrying is that your eyes continue to change and after a time you may need to go back for more surgery or start having to wear specs anyway!
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ive thought about the laser surgery too but i cant afford it, the only solution would to have one eye done and wear a monocle on the other one until ive saved up
but on a serious note i would have to see my optician as im diabetic too, i have to have my retina photographed every 12 months to keep a check on the tiny blood vessels in the back of the eye, fingers crossed everything normal at present
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>>I asked about laser surgery and what put me off was that the prices are from £395. The actual cost can run in to thousands<<
You'll have to wait until you get the stick and the commode zippo - then you get it done for nuffink!
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Get your eyes tested just to be on the safe side, but quiz the optician carefully to establish that all you need is ordinary magnifying reading glasses.
Then decline their offer of their own £50 specs and go and try a pair at a pound shop.
Get half a dozen and leave them in all the places where you might need them - desk, office, car, kitchen, loo, etc.
Have an old pair in the garage too so you can read labels on paint tins, oil, etc.
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Seems to me that laser surgery is a good fit for myopic 18-30 year olds whose prescription is likely to be stable for many years and who would otherwise have to wear corrective lenses all the time. It doesn't seem so good for presbyopia, where the problem is a decrease in the range of distances over which the lens can focus. Surgery (or contacts, for that matter) wouldn't put the range back; it would merely shift it from distant to close, so you might find yourself needing glasses for distance instead of for reading.
There are complicated contact lenses that are supposed to work like bifocals, but I can't imagine they're cheap; someone may even have devised a way to do bifocal surgery. Seems like a lot of bother, though. Are reading glasses really that much trouble?
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>someone may even have devised a way to do bifocal surgery.
It's here already.
After a couple of years getting annoyed by being prescribed different lenses by a variety of opticians, Mrs K. went to Specsavers about six weeks ago. The optician spotted that she was developing cataracts - probably due to extended UV exposure.
She had one eye done three weeks ago and the other one last Friday using AcrySof ReSTOR lenses. They're multifocal implants and she's delighted. The results so far look like she won't need any specs at all.
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>>Then decline their offer of their own £50 specs and go and try a pair at a pound shop.
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My eyes and vision are more important to me than buying cheap specs.
You might have guessed that I have a cheap car and expensive specs.
The car however does get appropriate attention.
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"My eyes and vision are more important to me than buying cheap specs."
1 Most of the cost of specs are the frames. Expensive doesn't equate to better.
2 The important thing is to have your eyes tested properly. Boots and Specsavers often have better and more up to date equipment than small local opticians and the Optomerists they employ will have the same qualifications.
3 If you just need a simple pair of magnifying specs for reading then a cheap over the counter pair will do the same job as an expensive pair.
4 You cannot damage your eyesight by wearing the wrong specs.
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>> 4 You cannot damage your eyesight by wearing the wrong specs.
True, but you can get a nasty headache.
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>> >> 4 You cannot damage your eyesight by wearing the wrong specs.
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>> True, but you can get a nasty headache.
Yep, I can vouch for that, when my new prescription had the lenses the wrong way round in the frames :)
It would be nice not to have to wear glasses, mainly for water sports, but I wouldn't like to be the one where laser surgery 'went wrong' and end up with eye problems for the rest of my life. These adverts where they promise 'from £395 per eye' make me laugh. You can't treat this as a 'buy one get one free' sort of bargain. My eyes are priceless to me.
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>>and go and try a pair at a pound shop.
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or go upmarket from Thursday for £2.49
www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/index_24651.htm
and maybe check out your ticker ??
www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_uk/hs.xsl/index_24649.htm
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Laser eye surgery.
Do they still only do one eye at a time, 'in case it goes wrong', tells me enough.
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I would be very concerned about the possible after effects of laser eye surgery.
I have had lots, somewhere in the region of 25,000 hits altogether. I often suffered with floaters and contamination of the vitreous jelly a week or two after treatment. It generally clears after a few weeks, but not always completely.
My treatment was because of diabetic retinopathy...damage to the blood vessels in the eye.
They are cauterised by the laser. I wouldn't touch it for cosmetic reasons.....no way, Jose !
I've worn specs for about 36 yrs. Development of cataracts over the past couple of years has led to major changes in day to day life.
I had the left eye de-cataracted in July 2010 but within 3 days I got massive floaters. The right eye was quite good so I left the op until the left recovered. Unfortunately the floaters/contamination got gradually worse whilst at the same time the right cataract became so bad that I could only see shapes and colours.
This year has been largely wasted, I couldn't really enjoy reading, even the paper, hobbies have been out of the frame. My 26inch monitor with big zoom still needed a magnifying glass to read.
My right eye was dealt with about 5 weeks ago and I also had a steroid injection into the eyeball 'cos of a macular oedema. I had floaters for about 3 weeks, but they cleared, as the surgeon had said and I'd say the vision is now about 95%. I've stopped wearing glasses all the time and only use £2 readers for papers or monitor.
I blamed my original optician for all my trouble.....he was a family friend and ' old-school '
The diabetic clinic nurses always used to ask when I'd last had an eye checked and I told them. What I didn't know was that they meant a fundoscopy...a check on the blood vessels,
I just thought they meant a visual check against the letters.
I had no idea about bleeds or fundoscopys and the optician never offered me one .
Nice guy, family friend....long dead now !
I'm waiting for the pressure in my right eye to come down a bit and then, hopefully, they will do a vitrectomy on the left eye where the eye is drained and filled with gas. The gas is absorbed by the body and new fluid/jelly is made to replace it. All done under a general and a night in hospital cheeking the nurses !
No bleeds found at the last two checks, HBA1C reading a good 7.2, cholesterol 2.9% an BP good so all looking fine for now.
Keep your eyes healthy folks....they'll see you through the week....and longer.
Ted
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Did you ever see a Dog wearing glasses?
Some simple exercises to improve vision naturally:
1.Look as far to your right as possible for 3-5 seconds, then as far to your left as possible for 3-5 seconds. Rest for a few seconds, then repeat this sequence several times.
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Look as far up as possible for 3-5 seconds, then look as far down as possible for 3-5 seconds. Rest for a few seconds, then repeat this sequence several times.
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Slowly roll your eyes in a circle, first clockwise, then counter-clockwise. Rest for a few seconds, then repeat this sequence several times. Be sure to roll slowly - it should take at least 3 seconds for you to roll your eyes in a full circle.
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Hold a pen in front of you, about an arm's length away. Focus your vision on the tip of your pen for 3-5 seconds, then shift the focus of your vision to an object that is farther away for 3-5 seconds. The greater the distance between your pen and the distant object, the better. If you are indoors, look out a window to find a distant object to focus your vision on. Repeat this sequence of going back and forth between your pen and a distant object several times.
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>> Did you ever see a Dog wearing glasses?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDZRJT2F9I
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>> >> Did you ever see a Dog wearing glasses?
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No but a Google for dog glasses goggles shows an interesting variety"
or animalswithglasses.tumblr.com/page/10
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>>No but a Google for dog glasses goggles shows an interesting variety"<<
That Poodle with the pink shades reminds me of a Woman I used to know in the 70's.
:)
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>>www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUDZRJT2F9I<<
LOL! wonderful dog - like a big teddybear.
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My local specsavers was the old local independant - they offered him a stack of cash for the business and for him to say on if he wanted - same old staff under a corporate banner with all the latest gear
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>> Some simple exercises to improve vision naturally:
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If exercises can improve eyesight it would seem logical that it is also possible to harm eyesight by "negative" exercise, eg by persistently wearing the wrong glasses.
I wasn't advocating DIY prescriptions for all sight correction, merely the benefit of having a number of cheap reading glasses in places where you might need them.
Obviously if your job is spending hours in the BM reading room every day or doing watch repairs, then you need properly prescribed glasses.
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glasses - henry k
