'Course it doesn’t help that I got my frames in about 1992 or thereabouts, and have been wearing contacts since about 1994, so my frames are woefully out of date, even if the lenses aren’t.
For the most part, I just wear them around the house when I’m not wearing my contacts.
I made the mistake of wearing my glasses on New Year’s Day morning this year, after a bunch of my friends had crashed at our place after our big NYE party the night before.
I now have the unfortunate nickname of “Sally Jessy” because of my 1992-era frames. (for the record, I’m a 6’1, 260 lb burly, hairy man!)
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Where do you practice? I need a good optician. The last time I bought glasses the optician talked me into a pretty poor choice, and now it’s time to buy a new pair.
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I practice in the magnificent :rolleyes: coal region of Pennsylvania. I work in a practice of mostly ophthalmologists with one optometrist. I love what I do.
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As I understand it he didn’t sterilise his contacts properly. Some infection occurred and the bug was resistant to antobiotics. He actually was in hospital and they pumped him full of them hoping to kill it but when attacked this thing sort of formed a sac which was impenetrable.
The only facts I can state with certainty: Infection on contact lens. Glass eye.
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eeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww I wonder if it was an acanthamoeba!!!
I have contact lenses, but I guess I’m the opposite way around from most of you guys. It’s the contacts that get almost no love since my eyes go blurry at the end of the day because I spend 8+ hours staring at the computer screen at work. With glasses, I don’t have to worry about whether the eyedrops will contraindicate the contacts.
Besides, about a year ago I visited a VERY fancy glasses shop that had the super high index materials that **WishIHadACoolName ** mentions. My friend (who was with me at the time) will tell you that my expression when I got the estimate for the frames and the lenses was along the lines of :eek: :eek: .
When I got them back, I was
No singing for me, but I love these frames and lenses to death because I’m not using coke bottle lenses any more.
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I don’t wear contacts, but I just got a pair of reading/computer glasses (that don’t work, by the way) and I’m dying to wear them! They’re soooo cute! They’re very fine RED wire rims. I have to go back to Lenscrafters and get it straightened out.
Slight hijack here, but am I asking too much to want my readers to function at the computer as well? I already have a 2nd pair of glasses on order for distance (that part is brand new). Do I need THREE pair of glasses? Should I just stick with my cheaters that function for both reading and computer? Trifocals? Won’t it be difficult to function with bi- or tri-focals?
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I can’t sell to you without knowing more, but were progressives ever presented to you? I’d recommend the Varilux Physio, which is a newer progressive, with a better mid and near field than many other previous lenses. You could have one pair meet distance, mid, and near vision needs.
Computer and reading glasses would technically be 2 different things. You need mid-range for computer, and close-range for reading. If anyone wants me to stop hijacking the contact lens thread, maybe I should just open an “Ask The” thread.
[QUOTE=Caridwen] WishIHadACoolName I got my opticians license ages ago but really never worked in the field because I went back to school. Do you like it?
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I’m in it almost 18 years. I love what I do. I’m very fortunate to wake up in the morning with no “gotta go to work” dread.
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My prescription is Sphere: +0.75 (o.d.) +1.25 (o.s.); Cylinder: (can’t read it…sph?) and -0.75; Axis 065; Prism: nothing; Add: +2.25 (o.d.) and +2.25 (o.s.)
I have no idea what all of that means, but with my drugstore cheaters, I can see both my computer screens (2 and 2.5 feet from my face). With the new glasses, I can’t see anything more than about a foot or less from the subject. Like I have to be RIGHT UP ON TOP of items on store shelves. I can’t read either computer.
The distance glasses will be mainly for TV. I haven’t picked them up yet because our insurance changed and I will be putting that cost onto the new one.
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Generally, if you can’t see out of your reading glasses, or if you can only read really close the RX is too strong. I would definitely go back to the doctor and tell him about it. If he corrects the RX, you can bring it to where you got your glasses and they normally replace the lenses free of charge. I don’t think they do people a favor when they over-correct, unless your only using your glasses for needlepoint or something. I’d rather have reading glasses a little bit weaker, so you can look up or use the computer.
Instead of using two pair of glasses, did the doctor suggest progressives?
They’re a little hard to get used to and have to be fitted perfectly but you do have an intermediate area in the lens so you can use the comptuer.
Like these-
Another thing I would suggest if your at the mall or something and you see an optical store- Stop in with your glasses and ask them to tell you what your RX is. They’re usually happy to do it and it only takes a minute. Do this somewhere other than where you got your glasses first.
You’d be surprised how many times I’ve done that for people and the Rx was wrong. Sometimes one lens was upside down if they have an astigmatism like you do in your left eye or off axis, or the L & R lens was reversed.
Before I got another pair of glasses, I’d make sure the RX was right and the glasses were right.
