[Bionic]

This thread was prompted by another one in the craft section where they were discussing the need for glasses.
I am/was short sighted. About 15 years ago I was fed up with the glasses keep slipping off my nose and couldn't get on very well with contact lenses so decided to have laser surgery. It was quite different then to what they do now and more risky so they would only do one eye at a time. Wait 6 months to make sure the first eye wasn't damaged and then do the other.
I had regular checkups in between and they found that having one long sighted eye and one short sighted was working so well for me that they wouldn't do the second eye.
Well thats how I have been since the op and it has worked fine for me. The only glasses I have worn since are sunglasses.
They do warn you that it does not get rid of age related sight changes and that I would need to use glasses as I got older but at 58 I am still glasses free. Yipee
Sally

[Fowgill Farm]

Funny you should start this thread as got my reminder for my eye test this morning, been 4yrs Whoops so will go later this week, i'm exceedingly short sighted and have worn glasses since having measles when i was 11, i too have tryed contact lenses but can only wear the hard kind due to the shape of my eyeballs ( ) never really liked them anyway, keep looking at the laser surgery but can't quite get my head round it, bit scared of being blinded or made worse i guess
The price of new glasses is one of the reasons i haven't been for 4yrs, my last pair cost over £200 and they were nothing special, they advertise 2 pairs for £69 but thats just the frames by time you get the lenses in, coatings and your test they soon wing their way over £100.    Why can't they give you an all in one price?
Mandy 

[doganjo]

I had my eyes tested at (the place that shows the shepherd shearing his sheep and making a mess of his poor dog)

I needed distance specs for driving and watching TV, and different ones for reading and the computer.

They told me I didn't need anything different for reading than the off the shelf ones I''d been buying and at  the same level.(3)

They sold me two pairs for driving for £69, all inclusive of frames, lenses etc.  I would now pass my driving test again (if I could pass the practical side  )

[Lesley Silvester]

The price of new glasses is one of the reasons i haven't been for 4yrs, my last pair cost over £200 and they were nothing special, they advertise 2 pairs for £69 but thats just the frames by time you get the lenses in, coatings and your test they soon wing their way over £100.    Why can't they give you an all in one price?
Mandy 

I went three years without a test for the same reason.  Only went then because my OH kept nagging me.  To my amazement and great joy, I didn't need new glasses as my eyes hadn't deteriorated. 

[jaykay]

Mandy, you may find now that you can wear soft lenses as they seem to have progressed a lot. I have an astigmatism but these days you can get weighted contacts that correct it.

IKWYM about the cost of glasses. I have a very nice set of varifocal lenses but they've discontinued the frame. I am so edgy about damaging them now (I am numpty, the dogs are worse and the frames are delicate) as I just couldn't afford to replace them. Paper clips and sellotape it'd have to be.

[Bionic]

OH paid £500 for his glasses and the dog has eaten them 

[doganjo]

You could claim on your insurance if it had been a pig or a sheep, but dogs being pets won't probably be covered for that.  Then again, maybe the dog had help